Golbourne blocked by Norton - UK Vintage Radio Repair and Restoration Discussion Forum

Ambientnoise · 5th Feb 2016, 12:00 pm

Whilst browsing this morning, Golbourne was being blocked with a warning of an "SWBPL" threat or annoyance. Apparently this may be something like their site safety certificate being out of date. I have no contact details and of course cannot get to the site to leave a message, in case they are unaware. Can anyone get a message to them ?

Ken

Station X · 5th Feb 2016, 12:05 pm

URL?

Ambientnoise · 5th Feb 2016, 12:23 pm

http://www.golbornevintageradio.co.uk/

Refugee · 5th Feb 2016, 12:25 pm

There is a thread on Golbourne about a slow response problem that has been going on for several days.
Some security software might block it while the problem is ongoing.

Station X · 5th Feb 2016, 12:38 pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ambientnoise

http://www.golbornevintageradio.co.uk/

Works fine for me using McAfee. Looks like a Norton problem.

Station X · 5th Feb 2016, 2:46 pm

PM received from forum member mhennessy:-

Quote:

You might need to update Norton - it's out of date.

A week or two back, another account on the same shared host as Golborne was giving out malicious URLs that took people to a phishing site. It was a complex link that looked like http://golbornevintageradio.co.uk/~L...shing_content/

The malicious content was nothing to do with Golborne, and was not contained within the folder structure available to the administrators. The bad people were taking advantage of a facility that Apache offers, but that particular feature needs to be disabled on a shared host. It was a bit surprising that it wasn't already disabled, but the problem was fixed very quickly indeed - within minutes...

However, in that very short window of existence, it was picked up and added to various databases of malicious URLs, meaning that Firefox (and no-doubt many other application) issued warnings about it. Firefox stopped these warnings just a few minutes after the host fixed the problem, which impressed me. However, it seems that Norton might be behind the times.

The joys of shared hosting

We're extremely lucky that Paul shells out for a dedicated hosting solution for UKVRRR - it saves a lot of hassle, but is *very* expensive.

5th Feb 2016, 12:00 pm	#1
Ambientnoise Heptode Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Marlborough, Wiltshire, UK. Posts: 915	Golbourne blocked by Norton Whilst browsing this morning, Golbourne was being blocked with a warning of an "SWBPL" threat or annoyance. Apparently this may be something like their site safety certificate being out of date. I have no contact details and of course cannot get to the site to leave a message, in case they are unaware. Can anyone get a message to them ? Ken

5th Feb 2016, 12:05 pm	#2
Station X Moderator Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Ipswich, Suffolk, IP4, UK. Posts: 21,288	Re: Golbourne blocked by Norton URL? __________________ Graham. Forum Moderator Reach for your meter before you reach for your soldering iron.

5th Feb 2016, 12:23 pm	#3
Ambientnoise Heptode Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Marlborough, Wiltshire, UK. Posts: 915	Re: Golbourne blocked by Norton http://www.golbornevintageradio.co.uk/

5th Feb 2016, 12:25 pm	#4
Refugee Dekatron Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: Worksop, Nottinghamshire, UK. Posts: 5,553	Re: Golbourne blocked by Norton There is a thread on Golbourne about a slow response problem that has been going on for several days. Some security software might block it while the problem is ongoing.