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Tell HN: Ycombinator.com Blacklisted by Norton
Just got a warning when trying to visit ycombinator.com:
https://safeweb.norton.com/report/show?url=ycombinator.com
Seems like a false positive, but might be worth to get it cleared.
- sbierwagen 10y agoAll the listed threats are formulaformillionaires.com links, which is odd.
- schoen 10y agoMaybe people are posting these links as stories and they're getting flagged quickly but Norton still sees them and thinks of them as site content?
- AvenueIngres 10y agoAnd formulaformillionaires.com redirects to medium.com. Weird.
- tedmiston 10y agoAlso, the owner looks like a normal author [1]. $ whois formulaformillionaires.com Updated Date: 20-sep-2013 Creation Date: 01-feb-2008 Expiration Date: 01-feb-2018 ... Admin Name: Paul McCormick Admin Organization: Miracle Writers LLC ... Google says [1]: > Some pages on this website send visitors to the following dangerous websites: apollo-computers.com. Edit: Upon further inspection it looks like a pretty questionable book: "Become a millionaire by just following my 7 simple steps!" [1]: https://amzn.com/0979433835 https://amzn.com/0979433835 [2]: https://www.google.com/transparencyreport/safebrowsing/diagnostic/index.html?hl=en#url=http://www.formulaformillionaires.com/ https://www.google.com/transparencyreport/safebrowsing/diagn...
- AvenueIngres 10y ago>"Become a millionaire by just following my 7 simple steps!" Looks legit Medium.com to me
- philip1209 10y agoProbably a Cloudflare IP got flagged then switched to serving YC traffic
- scrollaway 10y agoWe got that same issue on joust.hearthsim.net (serving an S3 static site), it's getting blocked in russia because some website used to be on the IP it's currently routed to, back in 2013 or some such. Annoying. Any suggestions?
- jgrahamc 10y agoDid you talk to Cloudflare support about that?
- scrollaway 10y agoYeah. They essentially advised us to open a new account. They also advised that we would be less likely to share an IP on a paid plan. The website in question I don't think even exists anymore, so this is just a dead IP in russia. I fucking hate censorship.
- jgrahamc 10y agoDrop me an email jgc@
- jgrahamc 10y agoycombinator.com is not handled by Cloudflare; it appears to be on Amazon.
- jonknee 10y agoHmm... nslookup news.ycombinator.com Server: 192.168.1.1 Address: 192.168.1.1#53 Non-authoritative answer: news.ycombinator.com canonical name = news.ycombinator.com.cdn.cloudflare.net. Name: news.ycombinator.com.cdn.cloudflare.net
- Aldo_MX 10y agoHopefully the bureaucracy to get removed from the blacklist is not as bad as with other vendors.
- schwap 10y agoIt's not really a static blacklist as such. Sites are added and fall off of it regularly.
- dsl 10y agoDon't move to a bad neighborhood then be surprised when you have problems.
- DiabloD3 10y agoSo... don't have a website on the Internet. Gotcha.
- problems 10y agoMost every provider has had problematic customers at some point. Especially when you consider countries that might find just about anything to be problematic. Insult our leader? Your IP is banned forever.
- sctb 10y agoWe detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12840038 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12840038 and marked it off-topic.
- EddieSpeaks 10y agoSomething to do with Peter Thiel?
- cosmeen 10y agoHow did you got this warning, what Norton product are you using?
- ivan_gammel 10y agoIn my case it's Norton 360.
- ivan_gammel 10y agoI've got this warning too.
- xiwaeo 10y agogot a warning notice from my antivirus (Norton). what's up?
- phoboslab 10y agoThis happened to a site I managed a while ago. The cause was a comment a user posted that was flagged as a "batch virus". The content of the comment was all text, along the lines of @echo off echo "Speeding up your PC!" delete c:\Windows\system32\ Thanks Norton!
- deanstag 10y agoThanks OP. Norton will blacklist HN again!
- gnu8 10y agoNorton probably blacklisted HN for this comment because it infringes on their intellectual property, not merely because it is potentially destructive code. In other words, it duplicates the functionality of some of their products and they don't appreciate their trade secrets being exposed this way.
- hellofunk 10y agoI was going through some old patent applications from 2015 and found this exact code snippet in Pat. #482739HG by one of Norton's subsidiary companies.
- markwaldron 10y agoYou can submit it to get whitelisted here: https://submit.symantec.com/false_positive/ https://submit.symantec.com/false_positive/
- yomly 10y agoIt's a gathering point for hackers - of course it would be flagged. /s
- Mz 10y agoNefarious, evil and tricksie people who might actually get things done. For shame.
- deleted 10y ago[deleted]
- nikanj 10y agoThis is what we get for repeatedly making fun of Symantec
- dknecht 10y agoIs this still happening to anybody? I am with Cloudflare and will escalate if still a problem.
- sctb 10y agoIt looks like it's OK for me, now: https://safeweb.norton.com/report/show?url=news.ycombinator.com https://safeweb.norton.com/report/show?url=news.ycombinator....
- markwaldron 10y agoJust got an email from Norton saying they have resolved the issue. Email: http://imgur.com/a/2WwXf http://imgur.com/a/2WwXf