McAfee SiteAdvisor Neowin Warning


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This is really only a message for the Neowin website administrators.

McAfee SiteAdvisor has gone amber for this site, claiming that

In our tests, we found a small fraction of downloads on this site that some people consider adware or other potentially unwanted programs.
Messenger Plus! Live 4.50.310 (Adware) (MsgPlusLive-450.exe) installed the following programs on our PC:
Swizzor.gen trojan

McAfee SiteAdvisor Message Link

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Yea Im picking up the same thing

is there anything the admins can do?

I'll make sure the admins take a look at this tomorrow, there might be something they can do about it.

None of the files they mention there we actually offer on this site, there may be some threads that link to them though.

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This is the links for the files:

http://neowin.net/news/software/07/12/10/messenger-plus-450

https://www.neowin.net/news/software/07/12/...lus-live-450312

What i find most interesting though is that McAfee shines through as usual with this

# SiteAdvisor last tested this download: 2007 December

# SiteAdvisor last verified this link: 2007 December

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Did you install the sponsor on Messenger Plus! Live?

old screenshot, but it still works..

mp3_sponsor.png

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Ahh, that makes sense, is it any good?

I remember using McAfee a couple years ago and I wasn't very impressed with it's performance.

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  • 4 months later...

This is still an ongoing problem, has anyone from the team contacted McAfee via the Site Owner comments? Here?

Here is the current state of their findings.

http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/neowin.ne...FF&aff_id=0

And the downloads they consider dangerous is here,

http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/neowin.net/downloads/

I don't really have a problem as I have added it to the do not warn list, but other users may not be so accepting, and rely purely on what it recommends.

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It's useful for clicking links in search engines - you know what to expect.

so far when i checked known hazardous sites it come out safe

now that i learn that neowin is tagged dangerous i REALLY doubt your statement

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so far when i checked known hazardous sites it come out safe

now that i learn that neowin is tagged dangerous i REALLY doubt your statement

Don't blame him for mcafee claiming this is a false positive. The site advisor can tell you what sites are safe and what sites are not safe from search results. As you can see, it's not 100% accurate, but it's just a tool in determining what site is safe and what site isn't safe.

Sorry for the bump, I just installed this and was wondering why neowin was a "threat"

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Don't blame him for mcafee claiming this is a false positive. The site advisor can tell you what sites are safe and what sites are not safe from search results. As you can see, it's not 100% accurate, but it's just a tool in determining what site is safe and what site isn't safe.

Sorry for the bump, I just installed this and was wondering why neowin was a "threat"

i merely said it's not 100% accurate but just about 3% accurate ;)

sure didn't blame anyone

cheers...

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