I'm flummoxed with WSA and a probable false positive

Hello devil, and welcome to the Community!
 
Regarding the Admin warning: I have not seen that behavior previously, except in cases where the computer has multiple user profiles.  The times I have seen it the warning/permission has meant that the user must be logged into the computer to a profile that has Admin privileges, not a "normal user".  Do you have multiple user profiles set up on the computer, and if so, was the one you were using set to Admin rights in Windows Users?
 
All security programs get false positives from time to time, at least all of the ones I am familiar with.  Please report your false positive by Submitting a Trouble Ticket. This will get it in the hands of those who can adjust the URL Blocking.  I am not sure, but I believe being Easter Sunday it is likely that it will be Monday before they are able to look at it.
 
I am still a bit new here, so maybe someone with more experience than myself will also put a reply here with some additional suggestions/guidance.
 
 

Thanks, David. No, I have only one profile on this computer and this obviously has admin rights.

Anyway. the p problem now seems to have gone away, without my doing anything; maybe it has been clouded over (pun intended!)

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Thanks, David. No, I have only one profile on this computer and this obviously has admin rights.

Anyway. the p problem now seems to have gone away, without my doing anything; maybe it has been clouded over (pun intended!)

Well, that leaves me a bit flummoxed as it fixed itself.. but I am glad it is working now.  Do let us know if you have further problems, or submit that Trouble Ticket.

Hi Folks
I had this problem some time ago. I checked with Cyprus Mail and they assured their readers that they knew of the problem but the site was safe.
HTH
John
 

John
 
The last person I would trust, saying that a site was safe, would be the author! I understand that the problem with this site was a Google warning. My experience with Google warnings is that they regularly monitor sites for malware and, if they find some, they will block the site if you try to enter it from a Google search, with a warning for other means of entry. This will remain in place until a) the owner removes the malware and b) he explains to Google the means employed to do so. Google rechecks the site and, if it is clean, they remove all blocks and warnings. If a warning remains, triggering a WSA block, it may mean that the clean-up was incomplete or the author did not take an action to inform Google that the site was well cleaned up. In this case, it may be that the latter was what happened. Whatever, the Cyprus Mail seems to be at fault, even if the site is safe.

BTW we dont rely on Google for a our website determinations.Although we will take other AV companies information about websites into consideration we have our own system. We have a huge database of checked websites and we scan a very large number of websites a month (roughly 50 million) to help protect our customers.

Glad to hear that you guys do not rely on Google for website determinations! 😃