OK, first let me state that as a new person learning about DSLRs, I attempt to garner as much information as possible from the people who own Nikons and their successes as well as failures. With this in mind I have frequented various forums of photography and Nikons in particular. I don't suggest any forum over another, but this forum is the only one I have joined to date.
That being said, without trying to incur the wrath of you folks or any moderators, I would like to give you guys a heads up concerning one forum (Nikonians.org) that I have frequented several times prior to tonight with no issues, only to have that site blocked tonight by Google as being identified as an attack site. Part of warning reads as follows....
That being said, without trying to incur the wrath of you folks or any moderators, I would like to give you guys a heads up concerning one forum (Nikonians.org) that I have frequented several times prior to tonight with no issues, only to have that site blocked tonight by Google as being identified as an attack site. Part of warning reads as follows....
Site is listed as suspicious - visiting this web site may harm your computer.
Part of this site was listed for suspicious activity 7 time(s) over the past 90 days.
Of the 78 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 47 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. The last time Google visited this site was on 2012-10-01, and the last time suspicious content was found on this site was on 2012-10-01.
Malicious software includes 3 trojan(s). Successful infection resulted in an average of 2 new process(es) on the target machine.
Malicious software is hosted on 3 domain(s), including applied3dtechnologies.net, letterperfecttell.org, http://safebrowsing.clients.google....efox&hl=en-US&site=applied3dtechnologies.org/applied3dtechnologies.org.
2 domain(s) appear to be functioning as intermediaries for distributing malware to visitors of this site, including nikona.org, lamanana.huhttp://safebrowsing.clients.google....tic?client=Firefox&hl=en-US&site=lamanana.hu/.
This site was hosted on 2 network(s) including AS8426 (CLARANET)http://safebrowsing.clients.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?client=Firefox&hl=en-US&site=AS:8426, AS15169 (Google Internet Backbone).
Again, I don't wish to provoke anybody here, I only wish to advise as to the possibility of risk to anybody that may visit Nikonians...at least until they clean their site up. As always, a strong antivirus suite is critical to computer users and should be utilized on a continuous basis. McAfee and Norton are two good pay suites and AVG is a very good free suite.Part of this site was listed for suspicious activity 7 time(s) over the past 90 days.
Of the 78 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 47 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. The last time Google visited this site was on 2012-10-01, and the last time suspicious content was found on this site was on 2012-10-01.
Malicious software includes 3 trojan(s). Successful infection resulted in an average of 2 new process(es) on the target machine.
Malicious software is hosted on 3 domain(s), including applied3dtechnologies.net, letterperfecttell.org, http://safebrowsing.clients.google....efox&hl=en-US&site=applied3dtechnologies.org/applied3dtechnologies.org.
2 domain(s) appear to be functioning as intermediaries for distributing malware to visitors of this site, including nikona.org, lamanana.huhttp://safebrowsing.clients.google....tic?client=Firefox&hl=en-US&site=lamanana.hu/.
This site was hosted on 2 network(s) including AS8426 (CLARANET)http://safebrowsing.clients.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?client=Firefox&hl=en-US&site=AS:8426, AS15169 (Google Internet Backbone).
