Howdy,

I just tried to download vlad69's Sara freebie and my security system kiked out that it was an Attack Site hosting malware as of today. So, look out!

i've already sent him a site mail about that hopefully he finds a better site to upload it to

Below you will see why your security tagged it...used I think a very broad scan. Notice they all start with http://fwt.txdnl.com/5-10 . My fairly strict security caught nothing so I think you have an over generalizing anti virus. I think the file is O K and downloaded it with no bells going off

http://fwt.txdnl.com/5-10/v/l/vladstechnologies/freestuff/Sara%20natural.zip

From Norton SafeWeb(http://safeweb.norton.com/report/show?name=txdnl.com )

W32.IRCBot
http://fwt.txdnl.com/5-10/t/x/tx15/no.exe
Drive-By Downloads
http://fwt.txdnl.com/5-10/s/e/sellingccv/Cc.txt

actually it was my FF3 browser and google that had a problem with the site according to the why has this site been blocked link that shows up when it blocks it and there are a number of malwar and virus warnings about the entire site not just any part in particular

I downloaded it successfully with FF3 as well from home - I use Avast, it's constantly up-to-date, etc. Nary a peep out of the file, and when I extracted it that was fine as well.

Might depend on your anti-virus software. At work, using IE7, it appears that our firewall has blocked it for being "potentially unsafe" or something along those lines, which would go back to the site issues described. Whether or not the site is actually a problem is another issue.

Thanx for checking in on this Brynna, I suspect it's that they use the ever fussy Norton or the totally unreliable Symantic sysyem. I happily use IE7 and a browser overlay called crazybrowser and had no problems either, I use AVG antivirus and Zone Alarm Firewall in addition to the hardware firewall from my router so maybe am a bit safer from that as well.
A note to members, we do in fact check all this stuff and in fact this is why objects must SIT IN PENDING till we have done so. This is for your saftey, so be assured we have done all the requisite checks, sometimes I even open models in the Deep Ex demo to check formats I'm unsure of.. ...

Quote - Below you will see why your security tagged it...used I think a very broad scan. Notice they all start with http://fwt.txdnl.com/5-10 . My fairly strict security caught nothing so I think you have an over generalizing anti virus. I think the file is O K and downloaded it with no bells going off

From Norton SafeWeb(http://safeweb.norton.com/report/show?name=txdnl.com )

Actually, the report  shows and lists threat files in the  /6-10/, /6-20/, and /6-30/, subdirs as well. My intent was merely to advise and warn.

In any case the item has vanished - I am going to assume that the provider received the site mail by TheHalfdragon and is taking it from there. Perhaps he'll find a "calmer" site to upload it to. Sharecg comes to mind instantly, ads and all.

Okay, ignore the above response. I'm old, my eyes have nearly had it!

The file is still there, of course.

Firefox 3 squawked at me this time, so I ignored the message and went on through to download the file. Freewebtown as a whole appears to be the subject of the site at Norton's automatic safeweb advisor. I took that to read that the individual sites listed were the issue, not the entire site.

http://safeweb.norton.com/report/show?name=freewebtown.com

In any case the file downloaded, extracted, etc with no incident. YMMV.

However, since I'm the one who approved it, I'm going to put the file back into review status since there seems to be some type of change from yesterday when I downloaded without any incident at all.

Change in your system Linda???.. ...

Nope. No updates, no new installations (not even any Poser ones) or anything like that - I was at work all day. This might be unique to Firefox - haven't tried with IE7 on this machine yet. I'm a computer tech who, oddly enough, for several years "sort of" specialized in spyware, malware and virus removal and detection, first at a regional medical organization, then later at the ISP I'm about to leave. I will say I don't think I've seen anything quite this screwy and inconsistent.

I just checked it out with IE7 and it was fine. Weird.

However, this notice at the web site is of interest:

"We are in the process of testing our new caching services. That means Freewebtown will be serving pages much faster. We are still fine tuning the services so, please be patient with us."

I'm going to keep poking around and see what turns up.