Are People Being Warned About Your Site By Webroot & Brightcloud?

I just discovered today that a number of my sites are being flagged as "Suspicious" by Webroot products. One is even being blocked altogether. It says the CSS file is infected - as if.

This is not limited to me by any means. I've been checking the websites of my Twitter friends and have discovered that about 40% of them are also flagged as "Suspicious" which, as it turns out, can mean that any computer with Webroot products installed on them will be blocked from viewing those sites.

I wish I were kidding about this, but I'm not.

You can find out if your website(s) are being flagged by going to http://www.brightcloud.com and entering your URL on the right hand side of the page.

Webroot & Brightcloud suck. They are scaring people for money & slandering perfectly good websites for no reason at all. Make sure yours isn't one of them. The damage they are doing to people's reputations for money is disgusting.

They should be sued out of existence.

Quote · 20 Jun 2011

The official response I received from Webroot via Twitter today....

"We warn you (meaning the products end user) if you’re about to visit a potentially bad site, and many new sites haven’t yet demonstrated they’re safe yet. If you think your site’s misclassified, let us know w/ this form. http://bit.ly/k02foR "

So what they are clearly saying is that you are guilty until you prove your innocence to them. This is particularly the case if you have a new website, or an undeveloped domain.

Enjoy getting hosed by multi-million dollar security companies much?

Me either

Quote · 21 Jun 2011
 
 
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