A virus in the forums?

[Anser]

I hope I'm posting this in the right place... If not, I'd thank the mods if they moved it.

The thing is: I've been getting a message from my antivirus, avast!, warning me that this forum represents a potential damage for my computer. Whenever I open the forums, it says "Malware blocked!". What's going on?

[Vanillish Twilight]

I hope I'm posting this in the right place... If not, I'd thank the mods if they moved it.

The thing is: I've been getting a message from my antivirus, avast!, warning me that this forum represents a potential damage for my computer. Whenever I open the forums, it says "Malware blocked!". What's going on?

Oh my glob, that just happened to me a few minutes ago. I have no idea why it happened, though, but I can tell you, you aren't the only one.

[Musashi]

We're aware of the problem.

[bestyxD]

happened to be but when restarted computer it didn't say it any more

[Archaic]

Long story short....

It may happen to you in a few specific locations where someone's linked an image from a certain other site that's had some rogue ad issues recently. But the images they've linked are safe, so there's really no issues.

[TheYO064]

Whatever they are, Chrome doesn't like them very much. I can't even visit the site.

[Chosen of Mana]

I encountered a similar problem on the way to Bulbapedia a few minutes ago.

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What is the current listing status for bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net?

- Site is listed as suspicious - visiting this web site may harm your computer.

What happened when Google visited this site?

- Of the 339 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 0 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. The last time Google visited this site was on 2012-12-29, and suspicious content was never found on this site within the past 90 days.

- This site was hosted on 3 network(s) including AS14618 (AMAZON), AS36351 (SOFTLAYER), AS15169 (Google Internet Backbone).

Has this site acted as an intermediary resulting in further distribution of malware?

- Over the past 90 days, bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net did not appear to function as an intermediary for the infection of any sites.

Has this site hosted malware?

- No, this site has not hosted malicious software over the past 90 days.

How did this happen?

- In some cases, third parties can add malicious code to legitimate sites, which would cause us to show the warning message.

Updated 4 hours ago

[Dralcax]

This is happening to me, too. Is there any way to fix this?

[Evil Figment]

We're working on it, but as you can see, Google is not giving us any clue as to what is it that's actually wrong.

[Enzap]

Well this is quite a pickle. :X Best of luck fixing it, 'cause us Pokénerds need our Bulbapedia.

[Nekusagi]

I just had the same problem trying to access it from Chrome.

[Dralcax]

Okay. I "proceeded at my own risk" and was just fine. I was able to view several articles with no virus attacks. So clearly Bulbapedia is safe. The question is, what is making Google doubt its security?

[Bad Apple]

Yeah, I was going to check something on Bulbapedia and that also happened to me :/

[Fennekindle]

I get the message when I try going to Bulbapedia, but it's fine here. Think it could be issues with ads on the page, like Marriland's a few weeks ago was?

[Elso579]

Yeah I can't get onto Bulbapedia or Bulbanews chrome doesn't have a "proceed at your own risk" option