Google says that Webpin may "harm your computer"

Leonardo12 · July 1, 2010, 10:14pm

Hello,

When I search for webpin in google the engine responds that webpin may harm your computer. In addition while I am clicking this in Firefox , Firefox blocks the site. Only Konqueror can visit the site.

Wrath5000 · July 1, 2010, 10:39pm

I see what you mean. How very strange. Chrome isn’t happy with the site either.

techwiz03 · July 1, 2010, 11:32pm

I suspect it’s the way the site is built. Google also issues the warning when MAC OS 9 and it’s predessors try to visit MAC sites! There is nothing technically wrong or damaging about the sites, but the coding standard used makes google or firefox assume the site is very bad idea.

caf4926 · July 2, 2010, 4:22am

This matter is being addressed

malcolmlewis · July 2, 2010, 6:25am

Hi
Update here;
dev/loki: opensuse-community.org an attack page

hendersj · July 2, 2010, 2:08am

On Thu, 01 Jul 2010 20:49:13 +0000, Leonardo12 wrote:

> Hello,
>
> When I search for webpin in google the engine responds that webpin may
> harm your computer. In addition while I am clicking this in Firefox ,
> Firefox blocks the site. Only Konqueror can visit the site.

If I remember correctly, this actually goes to opensuse-community.org -
there’s a known issue that’s being looked into if that is the place
webpin is pointing to.

Jim

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Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Administrator

malcolmlewis · July 2, 2010, 3:32am

–
Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 (x86_64) Kernel 2.6.32.13-0.4-default
up 2:14, 2 users, load average: 0.15, 0.07, 0.01
GPU GeForce 8600 GTS Silent - Driver Version: 256.35

DenverD · July 2, 2010, 9:16am

should be working now, give it a try…

assas1n · July 2, 2010, 6:48pm

Not working for me.

user · July 2, 2010, 11:17pm

On Fri, 02 Jul 2010 07:16:54 GMT DenverD <> wrote:

> should be working now, give it a try…

Doesn’t work here. Not the web page, nor the cli command.

Funny, not even if I tell FF to ignore the warnings can I browse there.
Only the alternate site works.

–
Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” GM (Elessar))

hendersj · July 3, 2010, 6:02am

On Fri, 02 Jul 2010 21:17:51 +0000, Carlos E. R. wrote:

> On Fri, 02 Jul 2010 07:16:54 GMT DenverD <> wrote:
>
>> should be working now, give it a try…
>
> Doesn’t work here. Not the web page, nor the cli command.
>
> Funny, not even if I tell FF to ignore the warnings can I browse there.
> Only the alternate site works.

I was able to, but I had to ignore the warning on each link I visited.

I note that in FF it’s still listed, but it seems that the process of
getting it removed requires a manual review; if the manual review is US-
based, it’s possible that the holiday weekend will affect things…
(Though hopefully not).

Jim

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Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Administrator

DenverD · July 4, 2010, 10:48am

Jim Henderson wrote:
> it’s possible that the holiday weekend will affect things…
> (Though hopefully not).

hmmmmm…strange, when i posted it worked, it did here…not sure how,
but know i didn’t get the

“Sorry, “packages.opensuse-community.org” does not exist or could not
be found” i am getting now from redirect to:

http://search.dnsadvantage.com/main?InterceptSource=0&ClientLocation=us&ParticipantID=2g3ilo6vlspoed6dsc7d5lrrpkvca66w&FailureMode=1&SearchQuery=&FailedURI=http%3A%2F%2Fpackages.opensuse-community.org%2F&AddInType=4&Version=2.1.8-1.67base&Referer=&Implementation=0

kind of embarrassing that our hack-resistant OS got hacked and put off
line for days!!

hendersj · July 8, 2010, 12:42am

On Sun, 04 Jul 2010 08:48:02 +0000, DenverD wrote:

> kind of embarrassing that our hack-resistant OS got hacked and put off
> line for days!!

It wasn’t the OS, it was the application. It happens (I had a site of my
own that ran on PHP-Nuke that kept getting compromised - I eventually
decided the app was inadequate because it wasn’t hardened and moved to
something else).

Can hardly blame the OS for an application’s failings. That’s like
blaming the Linux kernel when OpenOffice crashes.

Jim

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Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Administrator

deano_ferrari · July 8, 2010, 1:01am

Just checked via FF - Its all fixed now.

DenverD · July 8, 2010, 8:44am

Jim Henderson wrote:
> Can hardly blame the OS for an application’s failings.

of course you are correct, i wasn’t thinking…

problem is, there are tons of folks who will jump to the same
conclusion as i did…and, even if incorrect it is still does not
lead to “good press”…

hendersj · July 8, 2010, 7:26pm

On Thu, 08 Jul 2010 06:44:18 +0000, DenverD wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> Can hardly blame the OS for an application’s failings.
>
> of course you are correct, i wasn’t thinking…
>
> problem is, there are tons of folks who will jump to the same conclusion
> as i did…and, even if incorrect it is still does not lead to “good
> press”…

At which time the community (and TPTB) can correct the misperception.

Jim

Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Administrator

markone · July 8, 2010, 10:58pm

For 11.1, I recently grabbed webpin from the tools repo without an issue.