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[nycphp-talk] php.net is blacklisted by Google Malware detection

Greg Rundlett (freephile) greg at freephile.com
Thu Oct 24 08:57:15 EDT 2013


https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6604156 uncovers the problem...
 Somehow some obfuscated javascrip was injected into a userprefs.js file
which in turn loads an iframe that loads the malware.

Greg Rundlett


On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 8:38 AM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) <
greg at freephile.com> wrote:

> Here is the diagnostic.
>
> http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=php.net
>
> Which appears to imply that comments posted in the manual are linking to
> sites which contain malware.  That's bad.
>
> And people talking about it:
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/24/php_site_malware_warning_flap/
>
> http://news.softpedia.com/news/Php-net-Flagged-as-Malicious-Website-393920.shtml
>
> But I haven't checked out the dev channel on IRC so I don't have any
> update from site admins
>
> Anyone know the scoop about when the warning might come down; or more
> importantly what the problem is with the comment/web system?
>
> Greg Rundlett
>
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