False Positive

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Earlier today ZoneAlarm warned me that the TDU forum, more specifically the TDU2 thread is malicious is some way and was wondering if anyone else with ZA has the same issue? It only happens when I'm in that particular thread and nowhere else. Any ideas what the problem could be?

If necessary, I'll be more than happy to take a screenie of the toolbar in it's 'alert' status.
 
It's typically an image that is linked in. I edited a few posts and changed the image host. If it's still happening, we'll have to dig a bit deeper.
 
Hmmm, that's odd. I figured it might be a "bad ad", but you're a Premo member, so you don't have any.

Nothing else running in the foreground or background, as a coincidence?
 
Pupik
Hmmm, that's odd. I figured it might be a "bad ad", but you're a Premo member, so you don't have any.

Nothing else running in the foreground or background, as a coincidence?
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Currently? Yeah. Ugh....MSN Messenger, Trillian, and other assorted programs. None of which have caused any harm beforehand.

I'll check right now, TB.

EDIT: Still there. Strangely, it only occurs when I go to thread through the root sub-forum.
 
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The false positive paradox is a statistical result that has surprised many: the probability that a positive test result indicates a positive subject is not given only by the accuracy of the test, but also depends on the characteristics of the sampled population (by Bayes' theorem). When the incidence is lower than the test's false positive rate, even tests that have a very low chance of giving a false positive in an individual case will give more false than true positives overall
 
Tom Servo
The false positive paradox is a statistical result that has surprised many: the probability that a positive test result indicates a positive subject is not given only by the accuracy of the test, but also depends on the characteristics of the sampled population (by Bayes' theorem). When the incidence is lower than the test's false positive rate, even tests that have a very low chance of giving a false positive in an individual case will give more false than true positives overall
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Why are you suddenly speaking languages I understand?

Do I know you anymore? :lol:
 
Tom Servo
I'm a stealthy nerd
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Apparently! :p

I can sift through the allowances and restrictions, or just do a scan and see what could be setting it's alarm. It's quite strange though because it doesn't happen anywhere else; could it be MalwareBytes being a jerk?
 
When I read the thread title I was thinking that you had a pregnancy test Terronium. What a letdown that was!! :p
 
mafia_boy
When I read the thread title I was thinking that you had a pregnancy test Terronium. What a letdown that was!! :p
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I actually gave birth to a baby manatee fifteen minutes ago. :p :odd:

Joking aside, it's definitely MalwareBytes that's causing ZA to react negatively to that one section; just turned it off (because I'm sick to death of it telling it's blocked this and that IP address) and just like that....no more false positive.

I'm getting rid of this.
 
Terronium-12
I actually gave birth to a baby manatee fifteen minutes ago. :p :odd:

Joking aside, it's definitely MalwareBytes that's causing ZA to react negatively to that one section; just turned it off (because I'm sick to death of it telling it's blocked this and that IP address) and just like that....no more false positive.

I'm getting rid of this.
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Yeah MalawareBytes used to give me constant headaches coming to this site. Never understood why as I've never had any problems here. Subsequently I got rid of it and haven't had any problems since. 👍
 
tom servo
the false positive paradox is a statistical result that has surprised many: The probability that a positive test result indicates a positive subject is not given only by the accuracy of the test, but also depends on the characteristics of the sampled population (by bayes' theorem). When the incidence is lower than the test's false positive rate, even tests that have a very low chance of giving a false positive in an individual case will give more false than true positives overall
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42.
 
You're all weirdos (including myself) and since the problem has been identified and eliminated, there's nothing else to see here.

Thanks for the help. 👍
 
As mentioned by TB, this sort of issue can almost always be blamed on an image embedded from a domain name the browser or security software marks as "dangerous". If you have these sorts of problems again, please provide links to any specific pages where you can re-create the alert.
 
Jordan
As mentioned by TB, this sort of issue can almost always be blamed on an image embedded from a domain name the browser or security software marks as "dangerous". If you have these sorts of problems again, please provide links to any specific pages where you can re-create the alert.
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Darnit, Jordan. :lol:

Hold on...I'll take care of that right now.
 
It isn't coming up anymore. :odd:

Ah well. Back to the "nothing to see here" bit.
 
I'm guessing I got the offending image last night and it was still cached.

And I'll take care of your next post for you:
Terronium-12
Darnit, TB. :lol:
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:D
 
It's back again. This time ZoneAlarm is giving off the false positive. :grumpy:

Stupid.jpg

 
A phishing warning? That's a pretty ridiculous false positive. I don't think there's anything I can do about it - you should report it via that link in the warning message.
 
Done, and it's still just the TDU sub-forum that trips the warnings. Any idea why?
 
I've no idea why any specific forum would trigger the warning (all forum URLs are the same with the exception of ID numbers). I would think a phishing alert should be triggered any time you visit any page on any domain the software deems suspicious.
 

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