Norton 360 has decided sim-outhouse.org is dangerous
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Low reputation because the site is new and it getting a lot of traffic. Report it as a false positive.
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Last week I was working with another member who was having issue connecting. I found this site
which scans most of the known security software sites and logs the current status of any given URL or file. Last Friday Bitdefender and G-Data both had our site listed as Malware. I reported this to Bitdefender through their report false positive function. I see today we are off the list for both of these products. Now Fortinet is showing us as Malware.
Norton 360 is not on the list of sites reporting to Virustotal.com
which scans most of the known security software sites and logs the current status of any given URL or file. Last Friday Bitdefender and G-Data both had our site listed as Malware. I reported this to Bitdefender through their report false positive function. I see today we are off the list for both of these products. Now Fortinet is showing us as Malware.
Norton 360 is not on the list of sites reporting to Virustotal.com
I went to submit the dispute to Norton and the website told me the Dispute was already in progress.
Norton, many moons ago, started out as good, decent protection. It's always been somewhat of a resource hog, but they were good.
Nowadays, they're not so good anymore and have to rely on overly cautious mentions of viruses (false positives) and supposedly malicious websites. Why? Because their technology doesn't cut it anymore.
I use ESET Smart Security Premium. It's not that expensive, offers great security and you have hardly any false positives at all. It even offers a "sandbox" environment for your browsers for online banking and so forth.
Priller
Nowadays, they're not so good anymore and have to rely on overly cautious mentions of viruses (false positives) and supposedly malicious websites. Why? Because their technology doesn't cut it anymore.
I use ESET Smart Security Premium. It's not that expensive, offers great security and you have hardly any false positives at all. It even offers a "sandbox" environment for your browsers for online banking and so forth.
Priller
Malwarebytes free version does not have active protection after 14 days. You have to pay for it to get active protection.
I used Eset for years they are good and about the same price as Malwarebytes.
Either is worth purchasing.
I used Eset for years they are good and about the same price as Malwarebytes.
Either is worth purchasing.
sixstrings5859
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I use Windows Defender. Careful about what sites i go to. about 15 sites total. Never had a banking problem or a virus in 20 years. Stay off the porn sites men !
Your turn to report it.Still thinks you're dangerous, evil scammers.......!
https://submit.norton.com/
Safeweb
safeweb.norton.com
Maybe if we have more than one report disputing it the issue will go away.
Seems their game is to always reply with Dispute is already in progress.
And after this if they don't fix the issue you may want to consider switching security vendors.
Right in the screenshot above it says "The Norton rating is a result of our automated analysis system". In other words a bot/AI has made a decision based on it's settings and it is not going to change it's opinion until a human intervenes and re-directs it! If the complaint/reporting procedure is also automated we are stuck in a feedback loop with no human intervention. I suggest we go into 'malicious compliance' mode where every active SOH member should report the issue multiple times per day until the matter is resolved! Let's show them what 'Malicious Sources' looks like!
It would probably take logging into Norton safeweb and leaving a positive review. Like Radioman did on the .com site.
I haven't used Norton in decades! I used to have it on some of my early computers as it came pre-installed but when it turned into 'bloatware' it went out of the door! I would never use Kaspersky either, I don't need the damn Ruskies checking all my hard drives on a regular basis! I have used the free version of Avast for years now but that is becoming a bloated nanny too so it may be time to look for another option soon.