[HOAXi]

Though I'm positive there are no Malware (false) related content going on here, I just want to let the board know there are a warning connected to this board. No big deal, but it might worry some folks with little knowledge.

[goin-god]

Most probably someone's Avatar or Signature.

[Girish]

The warning is not related to GTAF but to truxtertech.com. People have hotlinked some content from there resulting in the warning.

Click --> Those are the pages that are likely to throw up the warning.

And this is the guy responsible for the site. Although, it's most probably nothing to worry about.

[HOAXi]

I meant it was connected to this board, not directly coming from this board of course.

Someone should remove what ever content he uses. Safe or not, it's annoying, and it might scare off a few guys as potential members. I think he can live without that (is it his) signature (?).

EDIT: Ok, I see it's not his signature. You could give him a PM though, telling him to switch to another image hoster next time. There are plenty of others he can use.

This post has been edited by HOAXi on Saturday, Jun 16 2012, 15:20

[Spider-Vice]

It's a false positive most likely, after all it's the crappy Google scanner. He hosts the picture on his own site so I don't see him forced to change because of that, it's Google's fault but yeah, to avoid it he could change the hosting.

[radioman]

That is not the Forums, per say...it is more than likely just someone's Avatar OR Sig. that is causing the problem?-that's how it was explained to me, as I used to get those same exact page re-directs..

But, the question is:Why can't the mods disable the sig/avatar that is causing the problems and warn the offender about it-explain to the offender that they will be banned if this problem occurs again.., so these kinds of problems don't keep popping up? Just curious? This seems like the best way to stop this kind of problem-Just a thought/suggestion..

[Spider-Vice]

Wow, and why threatening a ban if it's a false-positive most likely? Just warning the user would be enough, after all if it was a real virus it wouldn't be a browser detecting it with a crappy engine like Google's, it would be your antivirus.

[radioman]

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after all if it was a real virus it wouldn't be a browser detecting it with a crappy engine like Google's, it would be your antivirus.

In that case, I don't think it's just Google, as the last couple of times I got that message-that message popped up on Google Chrome and when I double checked using Firefox, it gave the same type of warning(the AV, not the browser that time)...so, those times, I got a warning once by the browser and once by the AV(I assume it was the AV that time as it was a different screen than the one I saw on Chrome?)...

But, I didn't say to ban the offender, I said disable the sig/avatar that is causing the problems and warn them that if they keep it up, they will be banned-from experience, a lot of times just simply threatening someone with a ban(or in my career threatening someone with an arrest) is very effective as it will send them the message to be more careful as to what they choose for a sig/avatar as if they don't they can end up getting banned for spreading viruses/malware(for forums purposes)/if I threaten them with an arrest, it will make them think twice before they repeat the violation again(*hopefully*), as they now know they will possibly go to jail if they have another violation like that(in my career field)...just an example how a stern warning can work on the forums like it does in real-life..

[ilan0312]

And this is the guy responsible for the site. Although, it's most probably nothing to worry about.

This post has been edited by Girish on Thursday, Jun 28 2012, 15:11

[Adriaan]

Seen same warning here for "miamiviceonline.com": http://www.gtaforums.com/index.php?showtopic=515015

Viewing the page source, there's no direct link to that URL.

[PrometheusX]

QUOTE (Adriaan @ Monday, Jul 9 2012, 15:01)

Seen same warning here for "miamiviceonline.com": http://www.gtaforums.com/index.php?showtopic=515015 Viewing the page source, there's no direct link to that URL.

I think it's this guy's avatar.

[Girish]

His avatar has been removed and I've PMed him to re-host it to some other reliable site.

You can also report the profile of the member in question if you come across any such warnings.