Got this message from Google Chrome for Malware at DI

"Safe Browsing
Diagnostic page for degreeinfo.com

What is the current listing status for degreeinfo.com?
Site is listed as suspicious - visiting this web site may harm your computer.

Part of this site was listed for suspicious activity 2 time(s) over the past 90 days."

 

Yep, got it here too.

 

I just posted about that in the "Off Topic" forum. I got it too.

-Matt

 

I'm also getting a similar message, using Safari. Mine refers to the "Google Safe Browsing diagnostic page for degreeinfo.com," which is at Google Safe Browsing diagnostic page for degreeinfo.com

 

Same here with Google Chrome.

 

DegreeInfo has been suspicious a few times. On occasion, degree mill trolls have been known to sneak in posts on this site. So yes, a few posts have been suspicious.

 

Same with Firefox.

 

I surf on a college-lab computer that has network security out the wazoo -- and I'm ALWAYS getting "suspicious" or "may fry your computer" messages -- usually on sites I've used for ten years or more with no problems. No disasters yet. Perhaps it's a good thing it isn't my computer - and yes, I have one at home, but it's not connected to the Internet. It does useful stuff, instead. :smile:

McAfee outright forbade me to visit a freeware site I've used almost daily for at least 11-12 years. Turned out to be some sort of mix-up on McAfee's end and about 2 weeks later everything was OK. Surfing elsewhere, the security system locked me out of "SourceForge" and listed it as "level 4 pornography" (don't ask me what Level 4 means) - and if you've ever perused SourceForge - you know how ridiculous that is.

Sometimes I have to take the view that the efforts of the security-meisters and net-nannies do not apply to me. I just have to -- or I'll go even more insane... :smile:

Johann

BTW - no notices at all, while surfing DI. I'm using MS "Internet Exploder."

 

I'm getting malware warnings when trying to connect to degreeinfo.com on multiple Mac browsers (Safari, Firefox, Chrome) and on a Linux browser (Firefox).

Oddly enough, I do *not* get a warning with Internet Explorer 9 running under Windows 7 -- which is probably more vulnerable to malware than any of the others. IE9 goes straight through.

If I go to google.com and search for "degreeinfo", the first link returned is for degreeinfo.com, with a warning label: "This site may harm your computer". This warning shows up at google.com with every browser that I've tried.

No warnings returned at bing.com or yahoo.com. I suspect that this issue may not affect you unless google is your default search provider.

 

Me too. Called it "Attack Software".....It was in red...

 

We're on it. Google is actually proactive and emails its participating webmasters as soon as such a report is generated.

In this case, the report is bogus; Google's own webmaster tools shows there's nothing actually suspicious and no sign of malware detected so we suspect someone (the same someone constantly trying to cause us problems) may have reported it to their automated report tool.

Our tech team has scanned every.single.file. in the database (a lengthy scan with a site as content-rich as Degreeinfo) and found no signs of any malware or infections. We've reported to Google that the problem has been corrected, but it takes them up to 24 hours to fix the issue. Hopefully it will be resolved by tomorrow.

 

My thoughts exactly.

 

I've been getting it, too. It's sad there are losers out there with nothing better to do than cause trouble.

 

I suppose this is good news. I didn't get the message this morning.

-Matt