Norton Reports GPWA Forum as dangerous.

[TheGooner]

Today my Norton toolbar reported the GPWA Forum as a dangerous place with known malicious attacks.
It offered to direct me away - but let me "proceed anyway".

Anyone else use Norton and getting that?

[Progger]

Norton is maybe the worst AV on the market...many false positives....like a broken tire

Try Avast,AVG or malwarebytes...

Regards

[TheGooner]

Norton 360 is a good overall IT solution for small businesses with many PCs, tablets and mobiles.
It encompasses anti-virus, safeweb, password management, backups and a lot more for about $100 per year.

Thanks for your advice - but I have not found a competent and comparable offering.

[Anthony]

Thanks for letting us know. Norton is flagging the site.

Website Blacklist Status

Domain blacklisted by Norton Safe Web
Domain clean by Google Safe Browsing
Domain clean on PhishTank
Domain clean on the Opera browser
Domain clean by SiteAdvisor
Domain clean by the Sucuri Malware Labs
Domain clean on SpamHaus DBL
Domain clean on Yandex (via Sophos)
Domain clean by ESET

[PROFRBcom]

Maybe it is due to some of the ̶s̶p̶a̶m̶m̶e̶r̶s̶ posters with very low-quality websites showing up in every... single... thread... liking... damned near... every... post...

[Progger]

Norton 360 is a good overall IT solution for small businesses with many PCs, tablets and mobiles.
It encompasses anti-virus, safeweb, password management, backups and a lot more for about $100 per year.

Thanks for your advice - but I have not found a competent and comparable offering.

I try Norton last year, on a frozen VM System, the detection was very bad...almost impossible to remove Rat´s with this tool.
Maybe it's better now, who knows..

Gpwa was flagged many moths ago,script injection or similar...this can be the reason...

Regards

[xecutable]

Tried it to see if I'd get it as well and I did. To help the GPWA you can submit a false positive here: https://submit.symantec.com/false_positive/

I already did. You'd need the software version(Norton 360... etc) and the product (Safe Browsing) and the gpwa.org url. So even members who don't have it can report a false positive.

P.S Totally off topic and unrelated but why isn't the GPWA using https, it's a ranking signal, eventually chrome will tag it as unsecure as well, it doesnt take much time to switch.

[xecutable]

Just received this in the mail:
The Norton Safe Web Team has re-evaluated your submission to the block page False Positive site. Our analysts have re-evaluated the issue of the suspected false positive site:gpwa.org.

The result of this re-evaluation is a change in the Norton Safe Web rating for this site.

• Old Rating: UNSAFE
• New Rating: SAFE

Regards,

[wonderpunter]

it's flooded now, looks like the new rules were not enforced.. all they have done is add more word count but still same useless posts

Maybe it is due to some of the ̶s̶p̶a̶m̶m̶e̶r̶s̶ posters with very low-quality websites showing up in every... single... thread... liking... damned near... every... post...

[nsawins]

I was getting the same warning from Norton the past few days. It's fixed now. I have used Norton along with Malwarebytes on my laptops for years now with no issues. I wouldn't use my laptops without either one installed. They work great together.

[Progger]

I was getting the same warning from Norton the past few days. It's fixed now. I have used Norton along with Malwarebytes on my laptops for years now with no issues. I wouldn't use my laptops without either one installed. They work great together.

if u put one tool in the offline- not a active scan mode yes...if not both tools would try to drop the bad file in the quarantine...counterproductive!
Regards