It's blocking in Safari too so I think it's a MacOS diagnosis rather than a Chrome one perhaps? Or both browsers are detecting the same thing
Firefox 28 also detects it. On Ubuntu 14.04
Chrome is blocking wired.com
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#32So when does robot slander/libel suits begin? I'd be mighty ticked if google started labelling my sites as malware when they're clearly not.
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#33It's blocking in Safari too so I think it's a MacOS diagnosis rather than a Chrome one perhaps? Or both browsers are detecting the same thing
It's blocked in Windows, too.
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#34Safari also -- not the home page but the articles. Showing up as phishing attack.
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#35Blocked for me, Ubuntu 13.10, Firefox 28.0. The main page is not blocked but anything I click on is blocked. Here is the Why page: Safe Browsing Diagnostic page for wired.com/2014/04 What is the current listing status for wired.com/2014/04? Site is listed as suspicious - visiting this web site may harm your computer. What happened when Google visited this site? Of the 135 pages we tested on the site over the past 90…
Chrome lists two images as "malware":
http://www.wired.com/playbook/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/soccer_w.jpg
http://www.wired.com/playbook/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/bike-press-w.jpg
Screenshot: http://cl.ly/image/1m3g3L2v3w3C
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#36I'm a little confused how a webpage can infect a machine with malware? Is this typically through Java Applets/other plugins?
having hacked websites serve infected or specially crafted files that exploit 0 day bugs is a very common vector actually. like 0 day PDF reader bugs - they spread by being linked to in phishing emails for example. people click on them and boom they load a bad PDF and are drive by infected.
specially crafted jpgs and gifs have also been used to exploit overflows in image handling code.
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#37I am surprised why anyone is still using Chrome. Their debacle with remotely disabling extensions that are not from the Web Store should have spooked users enough.
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#38I'm a little confused how a webpage can infect a machine with malware? Is this typically through Java Applets/other plugins?
Exploiting programming errors in the browser is one way.
Because browsers are written in very unsafe programming languages (C++), bugs are regularly exploitable so that by specially crafting the bug-triggering input data they can be fooled to scribble content-controlled data inside the browser's memory space. For example, a memory handling bug might let the page overwrite some of the browser's code with data coming from the web page.
This lets the web page break into your computer, running arbitrary code of its choosing on your box.
Browser plugins can be similarly targeted instead of the browser itself.
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#40The message I got when I proceed is: ------- The website at www.wired.com contains elements from sites which appear to host malware – software that can hurt your computer or otherwise operate without your consent. Just visiting a site that contains malware can infect your computer. Below is a list of all the unsafe elements for the page. Click on the Diagnostic link for more information on the thread for a specific e…
http://www.checkpoint.com/defense/advisories/public/2004/cpa...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7537719
maybe chrome can detect these even if they aren't using same dlls?