Firefox is blocking this site as an "attack site"

College Confidential Community
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“This web page at talk.collegeconfidential.com has been reported as an attack page and has been blocked based on your security preferences.”

I think I first got it when loading this page <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/1396684-like-over-booked-airline-mit-pays-accepted-students-give-up-their-seats.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/1396684-like-over-booked-airline-mit-pays-accepted-students-give-up-their-seats.html</a>

Site admins may want to go to <a href=“https://www.stopbadware.org%5B/url%5D”>https://www.stopbadware.org</a> and figure out how to get the site un-listed.

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I am getting the same message on my computer using mozilla and safari…i tried both

Sent from my DROIDX using CC

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We have verified the site is clean and turned off ads (some of which come from third parties) as a precaution.

Thanks for calling this to our attention.

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Roger - Now happening on the SuperMatch page as well. As a hint, the message says that the site [url=&lt;a href=“http://www.collegeview.com%5Dwww.collegeview.com%5B/url”&gt;http://www.collegeview.com]www.collegeview.com[/url</a>] is the culprit.

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The tech people are aware of the problem. digmedia, I will forward your comment to them.

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The sites have been verified as clean. We think the “www” portion of CC, not the forums, is getting flagged because of a minor problem detected (and now corrected) on a related site.

If you are blocked in Chrome or Firefox, Internet Explorer or another browser should work.

We are working to get the alert messages removed, but in our experience this can take a period of hours to accomplish. Sorry about the problem!

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Firefox displays that College Confidential site is a potential attack site and is blocking it. Thanks for addressing this issue.

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I’m getting the message today also on Firefox …

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I’m having the problem on firefox and there are people posting now in an SAT forum about a problem through Chrome.

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Also getting potential malware infected site warnings with Safari and Chrome.

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The problem was, as far as I can tell, related to delivery of ads and corrected within seconds. Unfortunately, it can take a long time for Chrome and Firefox to catch up with reality. The site has been checked and is entirely safe, but ads have been turned off temporarily as a precaution.

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Chrome refers to talk.collegeconfidential.com as a “known malware distributor.”

That doesn’t sound “entirely safe” to me…

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Some pretty wild stats this time, much more dramatic than when this happened in 2012:

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Chrome, FF, IE all 3 browsers blocking. I had to do an override to get here. Please fix if this some sort of configuration issue. I saw the same stats posted by Pancaked and that concerns me.

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i thought it was my windows pc. still seeing it on my macbook. at least in chrome, i was able to proceed at my risk.

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Wait! Please don’t visit that site right now!

Google detected badware on the site you were visiting. Firefox uses Google’s blacklist to warn you about “Reported attack sites.” We understand that you may know and trust this site, but it’s possible for good sites to be infected with badware without the site owners’ knowledge or permission.

I see this from [Home</a> | StopBadware](<a href=“http://www.stopbadware.org%5DHome”>http://www.stopbadware.org). Hope the Admins are doing something about this rather than saying site is safe. This problem has been going on for more than 3 hours now