Google Chrome is detecting malware on The Verge • Hacker News Board

Re: Google Chrome is detecting malware on The Verge

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Post by Matt_Cutts » Sun, Sep 16, 2012, 4:55 PM UTC

lukezim wrote: post #8

This is Luke Zimmermann from VOX Media, the parent company of The Verge and SB Nation. We've requested a formal review with Google after going to extreme steps to pull our advertising content to both do a thorough review and error on the side of caution that there wasn't anything malicious being inadvertently served up. At this time we're doing everything we can to get this on Google's radar and get it sorted out. We…

Definitely check for any unusual included content and then request a malware review. I emailed the malware team to make sure that this is on their radar.

More info is at http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&#38... and by doing a [site:google.com malware review] search, but it looks like you've requested the malware review correctly. In the mean time, I'd just double-check for any way that malware could have been included/downloaded on the pages.

Re: Google Chrome is detecting malware on The Verge

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Post by thedz » Sun, Sep 16, 2012, 5:21 PM UTC

w1ntermute wrote: post #12

I hope this doesn't set back the launch of Polygon. We've already been waiting for months, and according to Press Reset (their making-of documentary for the site), it's supposed to launch in October.

It won't affect Polygon

Re: Google Chrome is detecting malware on The Verge

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Post by denzil_correa » Sun, Sep 16, 2012, 6:21 PM UTC

superchink wrote: post #19

denzil_correa wrote: post #7

Already posted earlier http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4528963

Why would you link me to that? There is no discussion there that is of any value above what's in this thread (there are no comments). Please don't do that; I realize it was only a couple seconds of my life wasted (plus the 30 seconds to write this comment), but I would really appreciate it if this didn't become a trend.

Sorry wouldn't do that in the future if that's so disturbing.

Re: Google Chrome is detecting malware on The Verge

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Post by jamesbritt » Sun, Sep 16, 2012, 6:41 PM UTC

superchink wrote: post #19

denzil_correa wrote: post #7

Already posted earlier http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4528963

Why would you link me to that? There is no discussion there that is of any value above what's in this thread (there are no comments). Please don't do that; I realize it was only a couple seconds of my life wasted (plus the 30 seconds to write this comment), but I would really appreciate it if this didn't become a trend.

I much prefer that if someone posts a dupe story that people go and comment on the original submission.

I appreciate it when people provide links to such previous submissions.

Better that than the trend of people posting duplicate content.

Re: Google Chrome is detecting malware on The Verge

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Post by Matt_Cutts » Sun, Sep 16, 2012, 7:11 PM UTC

Matt_Cutts wrote: post #21

lukezim wrote: post #8

This is Luke Zimmermann from VOX Media, the parent company of The Verge and SB Nation. We've requested a formal review with Google after going to extreme steps to pull our advertising content to both do a thorough review and error on the side of caution that there wasn't anything malicious being inadvertently served up. At this time we're doing everything we can to get this on Google's radar and get it sorted out. We…

Definitely check for any unusual included content and then request a malware review. I emailed the malware team to make sure that this is on their radar. More info is at http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&#38... and by doing a [site:google.com malware review] search, but it looks like you've requested the malware review correctly. In the mean time, I'd just double-check for any way that malware…

Just a quick note: the message is gone for me now, so it looks like the malware review went through with no problems.

Re: Google Chrome is detecting malware on The Verge

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Post by StavrosK » Sun, Sep 16, 2012, 10:50 PM UTC

ChemicalScum wrote: post #13

I got malware warning on Google Reader today. I wonder if this is related.

I just got one on YouTube, weird...

Re: Google Chrome is detecting malware on The Verge

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Sep 17, 2012, 1:40 AM UTC

denzil_correa wrote: post #23

superchink wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why would you link me to that? There is no discussion there that is of any value above what's in this thread (there are no comments). Please don't do that; I realize it was only a couple seconds of my life wasted (plus the 30 seconds to write this comment), but I would really appreciate it if this didn't become a trend.

Sorry wouldn't do that in the future if that's so disturbing.

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Re: Google Chrome is detecting malware on The Verge

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Post by superchink » Mon, Sep 17, 2012, 2:42 AM UTC

jamesbritt wrote: post #24

superchink wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why would you link me to that? There is no discussion there that is of any value above what's in this thread (there are no comments). Please don't do that; I realize it was only a couple seconds of my life wasted (plus the 30 seconds to write this comment), but I would really appreciate it if this didn't become a trend.

I much prefer that if someone posts a dupe story that people go and comment on the original submission. I appreciate it when people provide links to such previous submissions. Better that than the trend of people posting duplicate content.

I generally agree with you. However, in this case there were already several comments on this submission, but none on the other (original) submission. In this case, as I stated, there was no value being added by linking.

And with that said, I think I'm done with this meta-discussion. Thanks for playing…

Re: Google Chrome is detecting malware on The Verge

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Post by nikcub » Mon, Sep 17, 2012, 3:35 AM UTC

lukezim wrote: post #8

This is Luke Zimmermann from VOX Media, the parent company of The Verge and SB Nation. We've requested a formal review with Google after going to extreme steps to pull our advertising content to both do a thorough review and error on the side of caution that there wasn't anything malicious being inadvertently served up. At this time we're doing everything we can to get this on Google's radar and get it sorted out. We…

Do you pre-approve and scan every single new advertisement to make sure it doesn't contain malware?

Buying ads on large sites with lax controls is a very common and simple way to distribute trojans.

Re: Google Chrome is detecting malware on The Verge

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Post by superchink » Tue, Sep 18, 2012, 12:56 AM UTC

denzil_correa wrote: post #23

superchink wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why would you link me to that? There is no discussion there that is of any value above what's in this thread (there are no comments). Please don't do that; I realize it was only a couple seconds of my life wasted (plus the 30 seconds to write this comment), but I would really appreciate it if this didn't become a trend.

Sorry wouldn't do that in the future if that's so disturbing.

Thank you! Also, just in case: I didn't mean to be a dick about it, so I'm sorry if it came across that way…