Breaking old chains and building new links
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Breaking old chains and building new links
Hi,
My site's links page used to have a link to the other place.
I decided it high time to change that and have now replaced that link with one that points here.
So what about your site, have you replaced links to you-know-where to here yet?
My site's links page used to have a link to the other place.
I decided it high time to change that and have now replaced that link with one that points here.
So what about your site, have you replaced links to you-know-where to here yet?
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Re: Breaking old chains and building new links
You bet I have. And not just a link but a graphic link: AlHoffman.OrgJan Karel Pieterse wrote:... have you replaced links to you-know-where to here yet?
I hope others will do the same.
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Re: Breaking old chains and building new links
Good thinking. I have now! Shame the rest of my site is so out-of-date!Jan Karel Pieterse wrote:Hi,
So what about your site, have you replaced links to you-know-where to here yet?
It was so out of date that the link pointed to the old wopr.com address!
http://www.igwilson.net and follow the Links tab.
Ian
Edited later: a bit of quick work and it's much more up to date. Why did I put it off for so long? It wasn't that hard!
Last edited by IanWilson on 03 Feb 2010, 17:29, edited 1 time in total.
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Re: Breaking old chains and building new links
Jan KarelJan Karel Pieterse wrote:Hi,
My site's links page . . .
I went to have a quick look at your site and on the links page, I clicked the "including me" link against The Road of the Cell Masters, only to be rewarded by Avast popping up a message that it had blocked access to a malicious site.
What's up?
Ian
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Re: Breaking old chains and building new links
Here is Google's Safe Browsing diagnosis page for puremis.net where "The road of the cell masters:" is located.
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Re: Breaking old chains and building new links
Thanks. I'm not sure what to make of the information provided. And Avast seems to think something is wrong.mbarron wrote:Here is Google's Safe Browsing diagnosis page for puremis.net where "The road of the cell masters:" is located.
Ian
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Re: Breaking old chains and building new links
That is a good example of a false positive. I see nothing wrong with the site.IanWilson wrote: Jan Karel
I went to have a quick look at your site and on the links page, I clicked the "including me" link against The Road of the Cell Masters, only to be rewarded by Avast popping up a message that it had blocked access to a malicious site.
What's up?
Ian
####EDIT###
On second thought, maybe something is wrong there. I have emailed Colo to ask if he is aware of the situation.
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Re: Breaking old chains and building new links
Better a false positive than a false negative, I suppose. Though it seems to tie in with the Google diagnosis linked to in mbarron's post (though I was not sure what that all meant!)Jan Karel Pieterse wrote: That is a good example of a false positive. I see nothing wrong with the site.
Ian
Edited to add: sorry, I posted before I saw your edit.
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Re: Breaking old chains and building new links
Better safe than sorry I s'pose. Best wait for me to get feedback from the site owner.
My own site is safe, I can assure you :-)
My own site is safe, I can assure you :-)
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Re: Breaking old chains and building new links
I'm sure it is. Lots of interesting looking links there.Jan Karel Pieterse wrote:Better safe than sorry I s'pose. Best wait for me to get feedback from the site owner.
My own site is safe, I can assure you :-)
Ian
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Re: Breaking old chains and building new links
I'm seeing the same thing. However the Netcraft Risk Rating on the site is green, i.e., no risk. Here is its site report: http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report ... uremis.net" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; (doesn't tell me much).IanWilson wrote:Thanks. I'm not sure what to make of the information provided. And Avast seems to think something is wrong.
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Re: Breaking old chains and building new links
Google seems to agree with Avast - it's not a safe siteIanWilson wrote:Thanks. I'm not sure what to make of the information provided. And Avast seems to think something is wrong.mbarron wrote:Here is Google's Safe Browsing diagnosis page for puremis.net where "The road of the cell masters:" is located.
Ian
Of the 116 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 80 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. The last time Google visited this site was on 2010-01-28, and the last time suspicious content was found on this site was on 2010-01-05.
Malicious software includes 117 scripting exploit(s), 10 exploit(s), 2 trojan(s). Successful infection resulted in an average of 1 new process(es) on the target machine.
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Re: Breaking old chains and building new links
I checked with Colo (he's a former Excel MVP).
He says -as far as he knows- there is nothing malicious on his site.
I expect if you stick to the Excel related pages you should be just fine.
I also asked him what the home page of this site (puremis.net) is all about, given the site title, which shows "Pure Misschief".
The Excel pages are on a subfolder \Excel\ and appear not related to what is on the home page. Odd.
Anyway, just make sure you change your links to Eileen's lounge, which is what this thread was about :-)
He says -as far as he knows- there is nothing malicious on his site.
I expect if you stick to the Excel related pages you should be just fine.
I also asked him what the home page of this site (puremis.net) is all about, given the site title, which shows "Pure Misschief".
The Excel pages are on a subfolder \Excel\ and appear not related to what is on the home page. Odd.
Anyway, just make sure you change your links to Eileen's lounge, which is what this thread was about :-)
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Re: Breaking old chains and building new links
Well if Avast flags up an issue, I'll back off.Jan Karel Pieterse wrote:I checked with Colo (he's a former Excel MVP).
He says -as far as he knows- there is nothing malicious on his site.
I expect if you stick to the Excel related pages you should be just fine.
I also asked him what the home page of this site (puremis.net) is all about, given the site title, which shows "Pure Misschief".
The Excel pages are on a subfolder \Excel\ and appear not related to what is on the home page. Odd.
Done that!Anyway, just make sure you change your links to Eileen's lounge, which is what this thread was about :-)
Ian