Site is getting blocked by Vipre Antivirus suit

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mobilenvidia

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This has been happening since I first came across here.
Luckily for me I know false positives and had to manually allow access.

Did the website get hit by a bug at anypoint ?
Our site was struck with the url123 issue (google it) a very annoying redirect to a malware site.
Took some getting rid off.
This issue is not happening here.

I help Vipre with their beta testing but v4 has just gone live and what I'm using.

Anybody else with similar issues ?

Any help needed with this give me a yell
 

Patrick

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It was hit my something similar awhile back but has been fixed for over a month. Maybe they are slow to de-blacklist?
 

mobilenvidia

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Yes they probably are, its a curse when this happens.
We had Norton issues a while back, false positive in that case, nothing we can do until they update their definitions in the mean time reputation is on the line.

Beta v5 is about to start, I'll have a look at what I can do to remedy this.
 

mobilenvidia

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Testing Beta v5 (2012) of Vipre.

Still getting blocked, have spoken with the guys at GFI
They gave me a submission address to fill in http://sunbeltsecurity.com/blockedsite/ which I have.

I had the site marked as safe in the settings but with the beta version the settings would get lost (so I found a bug quite by accident, so there is good in evil (sort off))

Lets hope all is well soon.
 

mobilenvidia

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Should be all sorted in the coming week
Hi:



Thanks for the report. That site will be unblocked in a forthcoming definitions update.



Eric Howes

GFI Software





From: Security Response
Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2011 4:08 AM
To: Eric Howes; Chad Loeven; Adam Thomas
Subject: Submit an incorrectly blocked website



A visitor has submitted information about an incorrectly blocked website.

Product: Vipre®
Contact Email: pieter@laptopvideo2go.com
URL: http://servethehome.com/ and http://forums.servethehome.com/
Description: The website was hacked back in August but within days was fixed. http://forums.servethehome.com/showthread.php?324-WTF-is-up-with-STH-main-page Hope you can give it a scan and clear it from the blocked list. Kind Regards, Pieter
Submitted from IP: 124.198.140.107


Date/Time: 10/25/2011 4:08:07 AM
 

Patrick

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Thanks for your diligence on this one. I can't try every security suite so this helps a ton!
 

mobilenvidia

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No probs, I like this place and Vipre makes it hard to get here.
I've used quite a few AV's over the years and really like Vipre, its in the background not in my face like some AV's
Also not a resource hog like Norton.
Of course helping with beta testing for the last few years has meant free AV :)