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Thanks. I do feel confident that this will be cleared within 72 hours but in the case of the business that does feel like an eternity since we host customer gen

by nstart 3y ago

Thanks. I do feel confident that this will be cleared within 72 hours but in the case of the business that does feel like an eternity since we host customer generated content. Also, this is bound to happen in the future where people are going to link to malware that’s hosted elsewhere. I’m trying to wrap my head around how to mitigate the risk of the entire site being blocked vs a single subdomain. Will update here though when it is resolved in case there are any lessons to be shared with folks

macrolime 3y ago
We had the same thing happen a few times and ended up creating an antimalware service that used Googles list of malware domains to check all user added outgoing links
- nstart 3y ago
  That’s awesome. It also sounds relatively trivial to implement I think. Do you have any reference though? Source code, write ups etc? Would love to learn from others. In this case it would be tricky since the link is to google drive and we can’t block those. Also we’ve seen people work around url blocks by either using short links or by using html pages hosted for free to redirect using JS instead of an HTTP redirect. Always another mole to whack :,)
neurostimulant 3y ago
> I’m trying to wrap my head around how to mitigate the risk of the entire site being blocked vs a single subdomain. Maybe allow your customer to use their own domain? Sites that host user generated contents such as wiki, blog or personal page often offer this option.