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Google Chrome blocks access to PLOS-ONE.

12 points by mahesh_rm 14y ago

mahesh_rm 14y ago
Does anybody know what's going on with PlosOne? How comes nobody is saying anything about this? A lot of research in my field is published on PlosOne, I suspect a lot of people are now stuck with their job.
- peteforde 14y ago
  It's Christmas; whatever is going on is temporary and will likely be resolved before you wake up tomorrow.
- thefreeman 14y ago
  Looks like a lot of sites were hacked. Clicking through the safebrowsing link above reveals ~1600 other domains.
Irene 14y ago
It's not only Chrome, Firefox blocks it too: "This web page at www.plosone.org has been reported as an attack page and has been blocked based on your security preferences." Still works on Safari and IE.
- mahesh_rm 14y ago
  That's true. This is really weird. I wonder what kind of malicious code did they find there.
- nthitz 14y ago
  Chrome & FF use the same safebrowsing API I think.
- eykanal 14y ago
  Safari version 6.0.2 (8536.26.17) is blocking it now as well.
0x0 14y ago
And here is the reason given: http://safebrowsing.clients.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.plosone.org%2F&client=googlechrome&hl=en-US http://safebrowsing.clients.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnost... "5 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent."
james-skemp 14y ago
Latest version for Android (on a Nexus 7) lets it load just fine. Maybe it's already resolved, or maybe that version does things differently?
- deleted 14y ago
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jlarocco 14y ago
I just visited in Chromium without a problem.
- mahesh_rm 14y ago
  It's perhaps some windows specific malware, and this would also explain why it's not blocked in andorid and in some safaris.
  - salilpa 14y ago
    Blocked in ubuntu chromium, cannot be os specific
mahesh_rm 14y ago
I am puzzled by the admins decision to remove this from frontpage.
- wmf 14y ago
  I (non-admin) flagged this because the headline is alarmist and I think stories about transient outages, hackings, accidental de-indexing etc. are not HN-worthy. As someone else said, give it a day or two and then start to worry about it.
DoItYourself 14y ago
I'm seeing it on my Windows 7 device with Firefox (although I'm too lazy to try Chrome). It works fine with IE and on my Mac with Firefox. My guess this is a transient problem. Something has gone wrong with PlosOne site and I suggest we all keep trying until it's resolved. Has anyone notified PlosOne? I'll go ahead and send a message to make sure they're on it.
- jbstewart 14y ago
  I was reviewing a paper, and cannot submit the review due to this. I have e-mailed their main webpage with a link to the warning, etc.
J_Sulli 14y ago
Still blocked by Firefox on my Ubuntu box. I found out when I was testing reference urls that are in a blog post I was preparing. Annoying, I guess I'll have to wait a couple of days until it's sorted out.
- ectonym 14y ago
  Have you tried turning it off and on again? The site loaded just fine for me in Chrome on Windows, but I've restarted my computer once today already.

12 points by mahesh_rm 14y ago

Does anybody know what's going on with PlosOne? How comes nobody is saying anything about this? A lot of research in my field is published on PlosOne, I suspect a lot of people are now stuck with their job.

peteforde 14y ago
It's Christmas; whatever is going on is temporary and will likely be resolved before you wake up tomorrow.
thefreeman 14y ago
Looks like a lot of sites were hacked. Clicking through the safebrowsing link above reveals ~1600 other domains.

Irene 14y ago

It's not only Chrome, Firefox blocks it too: "This web page at www.plosone.org has been reported as an attack page and has been blocked based on your security preferences." Still works on Safari and IE.

mahesh_rm 14y ago
That's true. This is really weird. I wonder what kind of malicious code did they find there.
nthitz 14y ago
Chrome & FF use the same safebrowsing API I think.
eykanal 14y ago
Safari version 6.0.2 (8536.26.17) is blocking it now as well.

0x0 14y ago

And here is the reason given: http://safebrowsing.clients.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.plosone.org%2F&client=googlechrome&hl=en-US http://safebrowsing.clients.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnost... "5 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent."

james-skemp 14y ago

Latest version for Android (on a Nexus 7) lets it load just fine. Maybe it's already resolved, or maybe that version does things differently?

deleted 14y ago
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jlarocco 14y ago

I just visited in Chromium without a problem.

mahesh_rm 14y ago
It's perhaps some windows specific malware, and this would also explain why it's not blocked in andorid and in some safaris.
- salilpa 14y ago
  Blocked in ubuntu chromium, cannot be os specific

mahesh_rm 14y ago

I am puzzled by the admins decision to remove this from frontpage.

wmf 14y ago
I (non-admin) flagged this because the headline is alarmist and I think stories about transient outages, hackings, accidental de-indexing etc. are not HN-worthy. As someone else said, give it a day or two and then start to worry about it.

DoItYourself 14y ago

I'm seeing it on my Windows 7 device with Firefox (although I'm too lazy to try Chrome). It works fine with IE and on my Mac with Firefox. My guess this is a transient problem. Something has gone wrong with PlosOne site and I suggest we all keep trying until it's resolved. Has anyone notified PlosOne? I'll go ahead and send a message to make sure they're on it.

jbstewart 14y ago
I was reviewing a paper, and cannot submit the review due to this. I have e-mailed their main webpage with a link to the warning, etc.

J_Sulli 14y ago

Still blocked by Firefox on my Ubuntu box. I found out when I was testing reference urls that are in a blog post I was preparing. Annoying, I guess I'll have to wait a couple of days until it's sorted out.

ectonym 14y ago
Have you tried turning it off and on again? The site loaded just fine for me in Chrome on Windows, but I've restarted my computer once today already.