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I used to work at a company that did a lot of security work, they're mentioned rather frequently on HN actually. We spent a lot of time dealing with our own bin
by selykg 4y ago
I used to work at a company that did a lot of security work, they're mentioned rather frequently on HN actually. We spent a lot of time dealing with our own binaries being caught in a variety of "security apps" as false positives.
These tools are almost all terrible.
- criddell 4y agoWhen you click through to the page, I don't see what MalwareBytes could be concerned about. It's a pretty simple page.
- selykg 4y agoIt's likely analyzing any JS on the page. Or a linked JS file. Those, in my experience, tend to be the issue.
- shakna 4y agoThere isn't any javascript on the page, inline or linked. None. BrowserGuard is a pretty... Braindead... Application. It's blocking based on the social media cover link [0]. Based entirely on the filename containing something that "looks like hex". [0] https://www.charlespetzold.com/blog/2022/06/Code2H450.png https://www.charlespetzold.com/blog/2022/06/Code2H450.png
- criddell 4y agoThanks for the explanation. I removed the plugin.