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I've had this too cloudflare plasted red "DANGER! BAD WEBSITE!!!" banners across my company's website because the morons at netcraft told them it was a "phishi

I've had this too cloudflare plasted red "DANGER! BAD WEBSITE!!!" banners across my company's website because the morons at netcraft told them it was a "phishing website" edit: looked like this: https://global.discourse-cdn.com/cloudflare/original/3X/e/9/e9b4d1ab86a632014197d0b3c04b9990af9fb407.jpeg https://global.discourse-cdn.com/cloudflare/original/3X/e/9/... thanks cloudflare for altering my website to tell my customers that I'm trying to phish them and to avoid us because some third party told them that was so what was the cause of netcraft to sending this to cloudflare? they found a 20 year old exe that had a link to our website as a string inside the binary not a binary we had produced, just some random innocent third party program that mentioned us in their about box if I had could have proven that I'd lost sales/reputation I'd have gone after netcraft and cloudflare for defamation what use is a DDoS shield if they'll automatically shut down your site if someone sends them an anonymous form saying "they're hosting bad things!!!!" edit: another guy with the same complaint here: https://community.cloudflare.com/t/cloudflare-mistakenly-flagged-my-website-as-phishing-now-shows-a-warning-and-misinforms-my-users/384158 https://community.cloudflare.com/t/cloudflare-mistakenly-fla...

asylteltine 3y ago
Way too much of the internet is on cloudflare. They are and will continue to be the arbiters of speech on the internet. God forbid I browse the web with a vpn!
- midasuni 3y ago
  Yet they are the golden boy on HN. Nobody should have that much power.
  - asylteltine 3y ago
    Sometimes I even get into infinite captcha loops without a vpn, even just on my phone. I LITERALLY cannot browse certain sites like wayfair because of cloudflare. I have done nothing wrong.
    - midasuni 3y ago
      They are doing it for your security. To be fair I’m never sure who is imposing the captcha s about things that are alien to my society (traffic lights hanging above lanes, yellow taxis, crossings without flashing amber lights), either cloudflare or google, but I’m certain it’s to continue the adtech economy.
MichaelZuo 3y ago
Signing up to use any 'shields' without a written guarantee, such as compensation for erroneous 'shielding', was also a poor decision.
- avery17 3y ago
  Back in the day my personal site was banned from cloudflares ddos shield for getting ddos'd. I'm not even sure what they actually do any more.
Jamie9912 3y ago
>because the morons at netcraft told them it was a "phishing website" How do you know they added a phishing warning because of something Netcraft told them?
- blibble 3y ago
  cloudflare sent us an email: Cloudflare received a phishing report regarding: mycompany.com Below is the report we received: Reporter: Anonymous Reported URLs: http://www.mycompany.com/deadlink Logs or Evidence of Abuse: Hello, You are currently hosting a site which is associated with an ongoing malware attack. The malware either communicates with, or is spread directly by following malicious links: hxxp://www[.]mycompany[.]com/deadlink [1.2.3.4] Visit the report below to see details on one of the attachments associated with this URL or IP address: https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/12345678/analysis/ More information about the detected issue is provided at https://incident.netcraft.com/1234/ Would it be possible to have this URL taken down as soon as possible? Many thanks, Netcraft Phone: +44(0)1225 447500 Netcraft Issue Number: 123456 (numbers removed to prevent doxxing)
  - sammy2255 3y ago
    So they asked you to take down a URL that didn’t exist?
    - blibble 3y ago
      the string they had discovered in the exe file had been dead for over 10 years we redirect 404s back to the parent directory cloudflare used that url on our own website to warn our customers we were "PHISHING!!"
      - ksjskskskkk 3y ago
        redirecting 404 to the homepage is enough to be banned from the internet. (slightly /s) also, you used cloudflare. meh.
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asylteltine 3y ago

Way too much of the internet is on cloudflare. They are and will continue to be the arbiters of speech on the internet. God forbid I browse the web with a vpn!

midasuni 3y ago
Yet they are the golden boy on HN. Nobody should have that much power.
- asylteltine 3y ago
  Sometimes I even get into infinite captcha loops without a vpn, even just on my phone. I LITERALLY cannot browse certain sites like wayfair because of cloudflare. I have done nothing wrong.
  - midasuni 3y ago
    They are doing it for your security. To be fair I’m never sure who is imposing the captcha s about things that are alien to my society (traffic lights hanging above lanes, yellow taxis, crossings without flashing amber lights), either cloudflare or google, but I’m certain it’s to continue the adtech economy.

MichaelZuo 3y ago

Signing up to use any 'shields' without a written guarantee, such as compensation for erroneous 'shielding', was also a poor decision.

avery17 3y ago
Back in the day my personal site was banned from cloudflares ddos shield for getting ddos'd. I'm not even sure what they actually do any more.

Jamie9912 3y ago

>because the morons at netcraft told them it was a "phishing website" How do you know they added a phishing warning because of something Netcraft told them?

blibble 3y ago
cloudflare sent us an email: Cloudflare received a phishing report regarding: mycompany.com Below is the report we received: Reporter: Anonymous Reported URLs: http://www.mycompany.com/deadlink Logs or Evidence of Abuse: Hello, You are currently hosting a site which is associated with an ongoing malware attack. The malware either communicates with, or is spread directly by following malicious links: hxxp://www[.]mycompany[.]com/deadlink [1.2.3.4] Visit the report below to see details on one of the attachments associated with this URL or IP address: https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/12345678/analysis/ More information about the detected issue is provided at https://incident.netcraft.com/1234/ Would it be possible to have this URL taken down as soon as possible? Many thanks, Netcraft Phone: +44(0)1225 447500 Netcraft Issue Number: 123456 (numbers removed to prevent doxxing)
- sammy2255 3y ago
  So they asked you to take down a URL that didn’t exist?
  - blibble 3y ago
    the string they had discovered in the exe file had been dead for over 10 years we redirect 404s back to the parent directory cloudflare used that url on our own website to warn our customers we were "PHISHING!!"
    - ksjskskskkk 3y ago
      redirecting 404 to the homepage is enough to be banned from the internet. (slightly /s) also, you used cloudflare. meh.

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