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Title: Site regarded as malicious by malwarebytes
Post by: doogle on April 27, 2021, 12:17:08 PM

Hi, I've recently come back to working with Lemmings things again after a little break,  and decided to visit this forum.

On my phone it works fine,  but if I try to open https://www.lemmingsforums.net on my PC I get a message saying "This site can't provide a secure connection" and "www.lemmingsforums.net sent an invalid response".

If I remove the https bit,  my Malwarebytes pops up a message saying "Website blocked due to hijacker" and "we strongly recommend you do not continue. "

Is this a known thing or something new that needs looking into?

After some help from people on the Discord, it turns out that it is Malwarebytes flagging the site as malicious. When I added it to the allowed list, the site opens fine with no warnings.

Title: Re: Site regarded as malicious by malwarebytes
Post by: namida on April 27, 2021, 08:00:40 PM

This isn't the first time someone has reported MalwareBytes causing issues with this site. I'm not aware of any reason why this would be happening, and I'm fairly sure it's been reported to MalwareBytes before (but I could be wrong about this). Whitelisting it - or simply switching to a better security software (my personal choice is Avira, but there's a few good options out there) - is the only real solution, it'd seem.