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Saturday, August 13, 2022

Security Alert

Today I had to move a blog off of the MMO Blogroll, but not for the traditional reason of the blog going silent (or vanishing).

Tobold's blog was flagged by Bitdefender for being an infected website.

I checked the alert more fully, and yeah, there's a definite infection there:

Oof.



Alas that I'm unable to contact Tobold, since doing so would require me to visit his blog to then find his email, so I'm kind of stuck here. So, here's hoping that Tobold actually reads blogs and will find this. Or, if someone knows Tobold's email they can contact him about this.

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6 comments:

  1. AnonymousAugust 14, 2022 at 8:15:00 AM EDT

    Thanks for the heads up though he wasn’t on my roll. I do read his stuff via Inventory Fulls helpful snippet roll though. Atheren

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    1. RedbeardAugust 14, 2022 at 10:21:00 PM EDT

      Yeah, I can imagine. Even he's admitted that his readership has gone way down when he's gotten away from blogging about MMO topics.

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  2. BhagpussAugust 15, 2022 at 5:04:00 AM EDT

    I did a full virus check after reading this, since I'd visited Tobold's blog a day or two previously, but it found nothing. I'm a bit nonplussed on how to check the current state of his blog without actually visiting it. I'm loathe to remove him from the blog roll without further evidence.

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    1. ShintarAugust 15, 2022 at 5:09:00 AM EDT

      Visiting his blog isn't triggering any of my own security, so it might just be a false flag. It can happen.

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    2. BhagpussAugust 15, 2022 at 5:10:00 AM EDT

      Okay, I ran his URL through URLVoid and it came up clean on all sources so I'm going to leave it on the roll.

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    3. RedbeardAugust 15, 2022 at 9:56:00 AM EDT

      Having had my own PC show up on those lists before, even a couple of weeks after whatever infection was cleaned up, it can take a while before you get off the naughty list.

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