Unwanted Software Site!
After so many years Today (27/10/2018) my browser (firefox) reported exettools site as unwanted Software Site!
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There's a thread regarding this already here:
https://forum.exetools.com/showthread.php?t=19004 |
Chrome also reported the same problem.
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Yes, this is an annoying problem.
Any suggestion? |
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Earlier on (you can check if you don't believe me), there were no EXPLOITS or MALWARE per se or links to them seen in the forum. When these links were permitted around 2 months ago, I guess the problem started. Solution: Ban malware or EXPLOITS (or links to the same) on this forum. |
Quick links to outline the possible issues via VirusTotal:
(This shows URL's that have been scanned and have been flagged) https://www.virustotal.com/#/domain/forum.exetools.com (This shows what URL blacklists currently flag the site) https://www.virustotal.com/#/url/b3f5e6667ea56a466e553153c84edec39503fee496e1f9be829eb032f0e72300/detection The fix for google safe browsing is claiming the site via their dashboard and requesting a rescan Another thing to note is that VirusTotal members (API key holders) could download files, possibly bypassing download rank restrictions |
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Didn't want to highlight this fact openly and make it obvious ;) |
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I had to do it for my personal sites a few times already as well to get rid of the blocks. Afterward, once the files are passworded you can tell Google to rescan the site to fix the errors. (Once you claim the domain on Google's site tools, you can see the specific files causing the problems as well, they generally give you decent information about what's causing it.) |
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In other words whatever had been flagged on your site were all (I understand) false positives. On this site unfortunately, it is.. Ermm... cough... Different. If links to malware/cracks/exploits/cracks are allowed on the site, then there is no way to get around it other than to get them removed from your site, OR, remove them to hidden sections of the site not accessible to the web spiders. Even then, if someone takes a sccreenshot of the hidden area and "reports" it, then once again, the site will be flagged. The best way would be to ban links to malware, RATs and other such stuff in the forum. These items in any case were not there for many years prior in this forum... |
This problem has had a very old solution that was even used here in older times.
Removal of information has never been a solution for all of life's problems except maybe by authoritarians and ruling class thugs. But we can simply post links using Quote:
As for the RATs in question, I have already edited the post to do just that so that baseless accusations that these particular links are the ones which caused the flagging can be thrown in the wastebasket. Perhaps it is another post with another link containing a crack, etc. No one knows for sure. But this recommendation provides a forum with full expression, information sharing and gives an extra indicator when caution should be exercised (which is pretty much always in a reverse engineer's context). |
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Please don't assume shit you don't know about. I've dealt with this on multiple sites, not just one public facing site you know about. |
One suggestion to all members. Please register and login to the virustotal and vote the site as a safe one!
https://www.virustotal.com/#/url/b3f5e6667ea56a466e553153c84edec39503fee496e1f9be829eb032f0e72300/community I've already registered the first vote as terming the site as safe. I hope everyone can do their bit and mark it as safe so that community power wins! Thanks! |
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Let's do this to get the site out of Google infected listing. I am sure if more people register their vote, it will happen. Thanks. |
Wake up dude. Voting will not solve the problem. They'd need to contact Google and ask to re-scan after cleaning up the board a little and hiding some of the questionable material from its spiders.
Setting up robots.txt properly after re-scan is important so that it does not happen again. |
As far as I remember, robots file is ignored when it comes to anti-malware scanning. At least it didn't help when I faced a similar problem.
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