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Vvvv.org has issues with Google Safe Browsing websites list

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#1

Hello,

I use Firefox with auto update. This very morning I can’t download any file from the site, since Firefox says “Blocked: may contain virus or spyware”.
Same thing with Chrome.
FF and Ch will not download .v4p and .zip (try here: https://discourse.vvvv.org/t/12693 and here: https://discourse.vvvv.org/t/12691

Made a few searches and discovered that FF uses Google Safe Browsing (http://www.ghacks.net/2014/11/19/bypass-firefoxs-blocked-may-contain-a-virus-or-spyware-message/).
Here they say that

Firefox handles the checks different than Chrome. Instead of communicating directly with a Google server whenever a user of the browser attempts to access pages or download files, it is checking a local copy of the blocklist first and will contact the server only if a match is found.

which somehow has changed, for vvvv is not in my blacklist (double checked, win internet options included).

Finally I visited this page

https://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=vvvv.org/

where G says that something happened on vvvv.org.
Webmaster is probably already aware, but you know…

#2

Anybody confirming download issue?
Am I doomed?

#3

confirmed with FF. strange. thanks for pointing this out. admin is on it.

#4

About Chrome: first time I launched it and tried downloading something, it worked as expected. I then shut it down.
Then I tried a second time, after a few searches and before posting that with Ch there were no issues, and it then failed.

#5

k, we found that google claims that the main vvvv.x86 download contains malware. consequently it seems it dooms vvvv.org alltogether. smart move.

i can only assume that they mean WinLockDLL.dll which has been reported malicious by anti-virus software in the past. i doubt that this .dll is malicious. its source can be found here:
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/7392/Lock-Windows-Desktop
we’ve reported back to google where it says this may take 24h to be analysed…

cheesus!

#6

I think their problem is the functionality of that DLL

#7

i guess so. it is fine with me if they have a problem with that. but they should not make it our problem.

#8

Worst thing is that this is happening a couple months before Node.
Sabotage, that’s what it is - for that dll has been there for years, now: they should at least have an idea of this.
One day they wake up, and something’s wrong. Yeah, in their assorithms.

#9

you might want to write a big red notice about this on the download page until this is sorted out.
this is however a little freaky that google can tag anything malicious without prior notice and without proper reasoning. x64 doesn’t work either

#10

Same problem here… tried to download a v4p and it got blocked

#11

Strange… did not have this problem using chrome… kinda… v4p are downloaded, zips not

#12

shout-by-metrowave-329

Firefox 36.0: Tools > Options > Security Tab. It should be enough un-ticking the second voice. In English should be something like: “Tell me if the site I’m visiting is a suspected attack site”

Once you’ve finished here on vvvv.org

PLEASE SET THE PARAMETERS ON THE PREVIOUS VALUES TO ENSURE THE MAXIMUM SECURITY

Wow. All caps + h2 is huge…

#13

pffff…

anyway thanks for pointing that out h99.

#14

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