[Box-Admins] Yandex thinks squeakfoundation.org has malware, someone should probably check this

Ken Causey ken at kencausey.com
Sun Nov 25 23:07:28 UTC 2012


On 11/25/2012 03:05 PM, Chris Cunnington wrote:
> On 2012-11-25 3:56 PM, Hans-Martin Mosner wrote:
>> Hello,
>> while trying to unsubscribe a past employee from squeak mailing lists,
>> I stumbled across a mywot.com warning:
>> http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/lists.squeakfoundation.org?utm_source=addon&utm_content=rw-viewsc
>>
>> which was obviously caused by this yandex.com listing:
>> http://yandex.com/infected?l10n=en&url=lists.squeakfoundation.org
>>
>> Are you aware of this, and have you checked whether the malware is
>> actually present on the server?
>> If not, the server should probably checked thoroughly.
>> Otherwise, if something was there but has been removed in the
>> meantime, someone should contact yandex to tell them to
>> re-check.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Hans-Martin
> Thanks, we'll look into it. I can say that I hope to give that server a
> viking funeral just as soon as I can. We're moving to a new one.
>
> Chris

Thanks for the information.  It would be really nice if Yandex would 
provide more specific information.  I'm trying to get it but it looks 
like it's a complex process and I'm not even sure I will get what I'm 
looking for (the specific URL that supposedly includes the virus).

Ken


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