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Thread: Unsafe link on Official Messages thread. Should this be removed? [RESOLVED] |
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Former Member
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The following message in Forum > Official Messages > Member News [read only]: http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread?thread=28392
----------------------------------------Contains a link to: http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/viewTeamInfo.do?teamId=SXXK7X4LW1 Which contains a link to a website which has been rated by Norton as unsafe (i.e., it may be dangerous to visit). Here is the Norton report: http://safeweb.norton.com/report/show?url=cas.cn The detailed threat reports states the risk as low because it has been only found on two websites, and is limited geographically. [Edit 4 times, last edit by Former Member at Feb 16, 2010 4:06:50 AM] |
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Sekerob
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Well, enabling javascript in order to read the page at Norton does not give me a warm/fuzzy feeling either. CAS is an official partner, so WCG will have reviewed their credentials, safe browsing behavior always recommended.
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Former Member
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The CAS must be huge to have their own TLD. Norton's report is only of 2 doc files and they are on a totally separate subdomain from the Institute of High Energy Physics, which the WCG link goes to.
If WCG removed links on the basis of a couple of doc files in a vaguely related academic site, it'd probably have to remove just about all external links. |
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Former Member
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Oh, I see, I didn't realise that Norton Safeweb casts it's net so widely. I thought it meant that the threats were actually on the page in question.
Sorry about the false alarm. |
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