Malwarebytes squawks on this forum: "Blocked due to Phishing"

Graham Parkinson
Graham Parkinson Registered Users Posts: 175 ✭✭✭
in Solar Forum News and Announcements #1
Anyone have any idea why Malwarebytes is blocking this forum due to "Phishing".   I wonder if email addresses might have been scraped off the forum software somehow?  Or just a false positive??

Offgrid in cloudy PNW

Full Schneider system with 18 REC 420W panels, 100A-600V controller, XWPro, Insight Home, six Discover AES Rackmount 5kW batteries, Slimline enclosure, Lynk II, AGS, H650,  H2200, H3000 (On Victron AutoTrans with Gen Line 2 wire AGS on AC1), Kubota 4500, Onan 7500 (on second AGS and AC2).

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  • BB.
    BB. Super Moderators, Administrators Posts: 33,637 admin
    #2
    We got hacked something like 10 years ago? 

    The basic security seems to be OK (this was using GMAIL.COM address):




    I guess it is possible somebody "flagged" the email address that did not wish to participate with the forum anymore...

    I rarely receive forum emails... Just PMs and such. You can adjust email notifications when somebody "posts" in one of your threads or such....

    -Bill
    Near San Francisco California: 3.5kWatt Grid Tied Solar power system+small backup genset
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  • Graham Parkinson
    Graham Parkinson Registered Users Posts: 175 ✭✭✭
    edited January 2 #3
    Malwarebytes does website checking as you browse to see if there is a history on file of anything fishy at the IP address that you have browsed to. 

    It blocks browser access to flagged IP addresses, unless you override it's warning.  

    Malwarebytes has just started flagging this forum recently.   I'll reach out to them and ask for it to be checked.

    Sometimes it can be another website hosted by the same provider that is causing the flag to be raised.

    Apologies for the multiple images - it kept blocking me when I tried to insert .... then they all showed up!






    Offgrid in cloudy PNW

    Full Schneider system with 18 REC 420W panels, 100A-600V controller, XWPro, Insight Home, six Discover AES Rackmount 5kW batteries, Slimline enclosure, Lynk II, AGS, H650,  H2200, H3000 (On Victron AutoTrans with Gen Line 2 wire AGS on AC1), Kubota 4500, Onan 7500 (on second AGS and AC2).

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  • BB.
    BB. Super Moderators, Administrators Posts: 33,637 admin
    #4
    Hmm... That is just a standard Cloudflare IP address... I believe that us.v-cdn.net address is usually used for "images" in the forum software.

    Used this to look up IP Addresses/resolve DNS and got the same IP address as you:

    https://www.iplocation.net/ip-lookup



    DNS checker is "OK":
    https://dnschecker.org/ip-blacklist-checker.php?query=104.18.227.85

    I looked at the source code for one of the main pages, and see that the us.v-cdn.net is just (28 in this case) images... such as this one:

    https://us.v-cdn.net/6024911/uploads/userpics/888/nDQ7AUQ1K2LED.jpg



    At this moment, I am using a Chrome browser on a Chromebook... No errors.

    If you do not have any luck with Malwarebytes, let me know and I will send this to tech support.

    Thank you for letting me know.

    Happy New Year!
    -Bill
    Near San Francisco California: 3.5kWatt Grid Tied Solar power system+small backup genset
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  • JRHill
    JRHill Registered Users Posts: 373 ✭✭✭✭
    #5
    A year ago all the forum email alerts coming to my Gmail began to get sent to spam. I tried and tried to clear the routing to spam and ended up having to create a filter:


    NAWS windsun@solar-electric.com via sendgrid.net 

    Jan 2, 2025, 2:54 PM (16 hours ago)
    to me

    This message was not sent to Spam because of a filter you created.

    Report not spamEdit Filters
    northernarizona-windandsun http://forum.solar-electric.com/

    ThirstyRoss commented on Understanding Conext AGS + state of charge triggers

    Please do not reply to this email.

    I'm using .....

    Check it out: .....
    Off Grid. Two systems: 1) 2925w panels, OB VFXR3648, FM80, FNDC, Victron BMV-712, Mate3s, 240 xformer, four SimpliPHI 3.8; 2) 780w, Morningstar 30a, Grundfos switch, controller and AC/DC pump, 8 T105. Honda EU7000is w/AGS. Champion 3100. HF 4550, Miller Bobcat.
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  • Dave Angelini
    Dave Angelini Solar Expert Posts: 6,915 ✭✭✭✭✭✭
    #6
    At this moment, I am using a Chrome browser on a Chromebook... No errors.

    If you do not have any luck with Malwarebytes, let me know and I will send this to tech support.

    Thank you for letting me know.

    Happy New Year!
    -Bill

    Happy New Year Bill!  Same here Chrome and no errors since the big one 10 or so years back
    "we go where power lines don't" Sierra Nevada mountain area
       htps://offgridsolar1.com/
    E-mail offgridsolar@sti.net

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