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**Cane**

Almost didn't want to post in that Avatar thread but couldn't resist, Google Chrome had these warnings about its first page:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/277335.page

Warning: Visiting this site may harm your computer!
The website at www.dakkadakka.com contains elements from the site www.heresy-online.net, which appears to host malware – software that can hurt your computer or otherwise operate without your consent. Just visiting a site that contains malware can infect your computer.
For detailed information about the problems with these elements, visit the Google Safe Browsing diagnostic page for www.heresy-online.net.
Learn more about how to protect yourself from harmful software online.

The website at www.dakkadakka.com contains elements from sites which appear to host malware – software that can hurt your computer or otherwise operate without your consent. Just visiting a site that contains malware can infect your computer.
Below is a list of all the unsafe elements for the page. Click on the Diagnostic link for more information on the thread for a specific element.
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**Gwar!**

This is why you need to use Firefox with Adblock. I Blocked all those damn annoying "adoptable" a long time ago.

**garret**

Hmm im getting rid of my adoptables. there boring know anyway. i seemed to be one of the last of the people on the sites to be using them.

**Quintinus**

Gwar! wrote:This is why you need to use Firefox with Adblock. I Blocked all those damn annoying "adoptable" a long time ago.

Chrome has Adblock as well.

**Drk_Oblitr8r**

I'm not sure if I should keep mine or not...

**SagesStone**

RIP the nids I had Bob the level 616 Hormagaunt and Ned the level 497 zoanthrope.
They were fun at first, but now rather boring all they do is count up. Given the fact that they could possibly hurt Dakka Dakka and the people here, they will be abandoned.

Now I need to find something new for my sig

**legoburner**

I have not seen anything concerning from heresy online. Either someone flagged the adoptables as malware because they were annoyed by them, or more likely, heresy's ad provider hosted some bad ads briefly which caused google to flag it temporarily as malware and hence the warnings from images from their site.

Either way, I'm sure it will sort itself out soon so am not bothering to do anything about it.

**H.B.M.C.**

Yeah I got some Malware warnings from Dakka when opening pages in a new tab in Chrome. Clicking on the threads normally didn't seem to do anything bad.

**leejerrum**

Hi guys, as Legoburner stated the problem we were having was likely related to the ads we were providing.

I'm not entirely sure what caused google to flag us but they did for a day until I clicked for a review. Unsurprisingly the review came up clean and they removed the block.

We're monitoring the situation ready to drop bannerconnect if it happens again.

**legoburner**

Hey Lee, we are both in/near London, we should meet up some time for a bite to eat to discuss forum admin stuff. Shoot me a PM if you are interested.