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Post by ritage on Mar 29, 2018 4:24:33 GMT
I just got the above after I had already been on the forum for at least 15 minutes. The only thing I had noticed was that switching from thread to thread was very slow, mostly taking more than one click.
I don't really believe the warning but I'm passing it on because I wonder if ProBoards is at all interested in this sort of thing. They ought to be!
Rita
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Post by Sepiana on Mar 29, 2018 4:41:24 GMT
Rita,
This brought to mind a very similar warning you reported in the thread below. I may be wrong but it looks like another case of Norton Internet Security generating some false-positives.
www.photoshopelementsandmore.com/thread/3557/security-warning
Towards the end of the thread, you will find a link with instructions how to report this to Norton/Symantec.
EDIT:
This is what I am getting from Norton Internet Security 2018. They say that PSE&M is safe.
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Post by fotofrank on Mar 29, 2018 14:50:09 GMT
I got a one time message that my Adobe Flash player was out of date and to click to install a new. So something was or is going on. This was on a Mac and flash player is always up to date.
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Post by ritage on Mar 29, 2018 16:15:58 GMT
Sepiana, I remembered my previous post and posted again just because it happened again. I think this must show that there is something about this site that provokes the false positive. I have never received it on any other web site, and I visit many.
Rita
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Post by Sepiana on Mar 29, 2018 16:26:54 GMT
Rita, I have received this NIS warning when visiting other sites. As a matter of fact, just last night I went to a site devoted to actions for PSE (which I frequently visit). I tried three times and the warning kept popping up. Then, when I tried again this morning, no warning. Everything was OK!
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Post by Andy on Mar 29, 2018 23:47:32 GMT
Often what triggers the alert is the banner ads that run. Try running an ad blocker and see if you get a different result.
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Post by ritage on Mar 30, 2018 15:58:44 GMT
Thanks, Sepiana and Andy, it is reassuring to know others have the same experience because I always wonder whether the bug could be in my own system despite regular scans.
Rita
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Post by Bailey on Apr 4, 2018 11:14:48 GMT
Often what triggers the alert is the banner ads that run. Try running an ad blocker and see if you get a different result. Yes, some third party ads you see on web pages will be dodgy but harmless unless you actually click on a dodgy ad. It's not until you click on a dodgy ad that it can potentially download something nasty onto your computer. The warnings might be real and not false positives if at the time of you visiting a web page it is displaying dodgy ads, most probably unbeknown to the web page owners if they do not screen the ads they allow to cycle through their pages. It's similar with email messages with dodgy attachments that contain viruses. The attachments are harmless until you actually click on them to open them. |
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