Malware warnings again

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  1. rojomas

    rojomas A.K.A The Oxx

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    WTH? I use Foxfire. For the last couple of days if I try to get on STR on my laptop my computer just freezes. I can only access STR on my phone. :/
     
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  4. LBmtb

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    Thanks for being patient. We'll get this cleaned up for good sooner than later.
     
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    It's back. I got the malware warning when clicking the "tubeless tire set up clinics" thread.
     
  6. genusmtbkr5

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    It's been back for a couple days. For me, it pops up on several threads, including TWC birthday thread and hockey thread
     
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  8. Bryguy17

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    I've been getting it in the pub and the workshop for over a week now. I can cope, but it is getting annoying. using firefox and chrome and it is the same for both, on 2 different computers/ip addresses.

    Also, in a slightly unrelated topic, it seems that the chatbox is back to being buggered with chrome for me. the images on the left won't load and nothing lines up right.
     
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    Just tried to go into the pub and got malware warnings. Using Safari.
     
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    Same here. grrrr.
     
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    strange that malware only pops up for certain threads that i haven't read. Any thread that I have already read before seems fine.
     
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    For me, just like Bryguy17 and Abui, it comes up in the work shop forum and the pub, but that's when I use Firefox. Seems ok with Safari. I'm on a Mac.
     
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    Using Safari on a Mac and just got the Malware warning on a few threads but not all
     
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    Using Chrome on Win7. I have been getting them intermittently since Christmas.
     
  17. TreksterFuelex

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    I continue to use FF on my laptop and have since stopped visiting the site after all of the warnings that were being thrown up. Norton kept notifying me and I just got tired of performing scan after scan. I can't even get the site to load on my android phone. As a last resort I'm using my IPad, if this fails I may have to look elsewhere. FML
     
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    I'm on a mac and I get a warning only on the workshop forum, both on safari and firefox. I wrote George about it a few days ago.
     
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    Seems to vary from user to user cause I'm on a Mac and get it with only Firefox in both the work shop and pub, but not when I use Safari. George does know about and he posted here in post # 42.
     
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    Can't even click google searches that come up with this site at work, using IE8, due to the potentially harmful site. Not sure if that means IE8 sucks or that the rest of the browsers aren't catching a possible threat...
     

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