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BuyVM website blocked by Norton DNS?
I've visited BuyVM website today and here is what my brower (using NortonDNS) said:
http://i.imgur.com/1MXtK.jpg
Detail report: http://safeweb.norton.com/report/show?url=buyvm.net
Is that a false report? @francisco
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Well that's odd?
Did you get a proper link? It's quite possible it's on a users subdomain on addons01.
Francisco
No, I just access BuyVM and it said that
It seems you have to contact Norton about this issue, I'm posting to see if anyone else got this issue or just me 
I thought ppl dont use Norton anymore
.
M
hmm, norton does show it "Domain blacklisted by Norton Safe Web: buyvm.net"
Some sort of false positive or something.
http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=buyvm.net says its fine and a few others
M
I heard that Norton Antivirus is very good now
The service I'm using is NortonDNS.com 
(My country blocked Facebook and Blogger by DNS, they even blocked Google DNS, OpenDNS..., so there is only Norton DNS that works!)
AS53667 (PONYNET) :O I thought it was Frantech?
PONYNET is part of the on going jokes :P
I've already submitted a re-evaluation request as there was nothing a miss with the site code, it's just such a simple site!
I'm wondering if maybe they caught a domain from addons01 and just grouped it together?
Francisco
PONYNET is farrrrrr better
It's also possible php-fcgi crashed and it tried to serve the actual PHP file as a download? Who knows, I guess I'll know soon enough
I think we still own ponynet.net
Francisco
how about ponynet.org?
how about prancingponies.com?
I still remove it constantly from laptops with OEM, if it was that good they wouldnt make it so that you have to pass through a few confirmations where they show how good it is when you remove.
It is also bloated, tho i must admit it is same footprint as it had some 5 years ago so it starts to look good
I think I will let it on next time i meet it and see the user experience.
M
Norton is complete trash and so is McAfee. Just stick with Microsoft Security Essentials.
All the stuff is sold out anyways :P
I don't think Microsoft offers their own public DNS, Jeffrey. I must agree, for a lightweight protection app, MS Security seems to work well. (I do not use Windows much however).
It's too bad he can't use Google's or OpenDNS
I use my ISP's primary, then OpenDNS or Google secondary for home connection.
Why not setup a DNS resolver yourself? I use pdns-recursor.
Random googled tutorial: http://www.thatfleminggent.com/2009/08/09/getting-a-powerdns-recursor-up-and-going-fast
Yes, it does not add all kinds of annoying pop-ups, doesnt ask every file if to allow or not, you dont really know it is there.
For free protection which is also lightweight, next on my list is avira. Only for home users, but better than SE. It also has pop-ups once day but can live with that.
M
because norton is a paid product and they dont like LOW END Boxes as they are losing business, users would rather buy low end boxes
Makes no sense.
He means norton doesnt like almost free stuff, as such they block low end box providers
M
Norton sucks as far as I recall, firstly, was bloated, secondly, was laggy, it's became
betterbut every fucking sales assistant for laptop throws the 360 package at you. It's stupid.Rather just use my Kaspersky 3-User license completely free from my bank :']!
Avast > all
Funny stuff
I think antivirus is in general a huge waste of resources and money. People don't get infected by random browsing anyway, just by stupidly opening email attachments, or of course warez. But keeping one running in the background is just stupid, stuff doesn't randomly appear.
I think you are wrong. There are drive-by infections, and cracked os-es are not always patched.
For me and you, it is a waste, but for the average joe, it may help in some situations, even tho there are clear basket cases and i know tons of those.
M
@Maounique Chrome and the latest browsers are pretty damn secure. Drive by infections only work if you the end-user actually opens up the .exe without knowing what it is. If they get a virus like that, they deserve it for not being computer literate. Only time when a virus program should be installed is if the end-user feels "Threatened" or non-tech savvy, which again is pretty damn sad. I have never used any virus program for the past 5years almost, and never got a virus because I don't open stupid shit. I know there is bugs in the old versions of IE and other browsers where there was a drive-by-exploit in those versions. But It's been patched for a long time....
My point I am trying to make is, virus programs are a piece of shit.
You Can also get infected via pdf files or flash or other ways. It's no longer only exe files that infects Windows machines.
Eh, I think you should look up the definition of 'drive-by infection' since what you just described doesn't come anywhere near. The whole point of a drive-by infection is that you don't need to 'open a .exe'.
Hi elitist person.
Uh, no. A proper anti-virus application also protects against drive-by infections, seemingly trustable but-still-infected files, infected non-executable files, various nasty stuff (Last Measure etc), and so on. You should probably look into what you're talking about before opening your mouth.
So you do manual daily scans of your network traffic, running processes, file modification dates, etc., to verify that you indeed do not have a virus? Or are you just assuming that you 'never got a virus' because you never noticed one - which would be logical, since malware nowadays tries to hide and you have no anti-virus application to warn you?
Bullshit. Drive-by vulnerabilities appear on a daily basis.
Oh please, stop being an elitist idiot here that feels too good to install security software, and making people more vulnerable in the process. Anti-virus applications are not the end-all-be-all, but the "I'm too good for that" attitude that you are taking is completely retarded and is the exact reason that people like you get infected with all kinds of invisible crap still. We really don't need to hear that you are so 'computer literate' that you don't need AV software. Go brag elsewhere.
+1 Joepie91
I do not use anti virus softwares cause I never attach any external drive/disk and I don't use internet. That should be the only reason why some one shouldn't need anti virus software's
I can think of one more
you dont need to any anti virus, just surf smart