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Macafee Site Advisor ... giving a yellow alert for Bleeping Computer?

#1 User is offline   Alan D 

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Posted 02 July 2008 - 01:48 PM

I've not visited here for a few days, but immediately I see that MacAfee Site Advisor is giving this website a Yellow Flag. There are some comments on the MacAfee website here, suggesting, as explanation, that some of the downloads available are classified as riskware.

This sort of thing could actually prevent people from coming here when they're Googling their way to help. Counterproductive, surely!

This post has been edited by Alan D: 02 July 2008 - 01:48 PM

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Posted 02 July 2008 - 01:56 PM

Hello Alan D,

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/topic155468.html

Its a false positive and is being taken care of now.
Regards,

Alan.

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Posted 02 July 2008 - 03:18 PM

View Postnigglesnush85, on Jul 2 2008, 07:56 PM, said:

Its a false positive and is being taken care of now.

That's good news. Thanks for pointing me to the link.
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Posted 02 July 2008 - 04:04 PM

No problem, glad to help.
Regards,

Alan.

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