I went to both lbda.org and the LBDA Forum (lbda.org/forum) at 6:30am PT today, and got this security warning in my Firefox browser window:


Reported Attack Site!

This web site at lbda.org has been reported as an attack site and has been blocked based on your security preferences.

Attack sites try to install programs that steal private information, use your computer to attack others, or damage your system.

Some attack sites intentionally distribute harmful software, but many are compromised without the knowledge or permission of their owners.



I'm given a few options:
* Get me out of here!
* Why was this site blocked?
* Ignore this warning (very small print)


I clicked on "Why was this site blocked" and see that this is a Google warning:

http://safebrowsing.clients.google.com/ ... .org/forum

Safe Browsing - Advisory provided by Google
Diagnostic page for lbda.org

What is the current listing status for lbda.org?

Site is listed as suspicious - visiting this web site may harm your computer.

Part of this site was listed for suspicious activity 1 time(s) over the past 90 days.

What happened when Google visited this site?

Of the 20 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 5 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. The last time Google visited this site was on 2009-06-25, and the last time suspicious content was found on this site was on 2009-06-25.

Malicious software includes 5 trojan(s), 2 exploit(s). Successful infection resulted in an average of 1 new process(es) on the target machine.

Malicious software is hosted on 4 domain(s), including elfah.net/, e20i.cn/, c99i.cn/.

2 domain(s) appear to be functioning as intermediaries for distributing malware to visitors of this site, including elfah.net/, e20i.cn/.

This site was hosted on 1 network(s) including AS14751 (CONVERSENT).

Has this site acted as an intermediary resulting in further distribution of malware?

Over the past 90 days, lbda.org did not appear to function as an intermediary for the infection of any sites.

Has this site hosted malware?

No, this site has not hosted malicious software over the past 90 days.

How did this happen?

In some cases, third parties can add malicious code to legitimate sites, which would cause us to show the warning message.

Next steps:

* Return to the previous page.
* If you are the owner of this web site, you can request a review of your site using Google Webmaster Tools. More information about the review process is available in Google's Webmaster Help Center.

Updated 5 hours ago


I have reported this to the LBDA and lbda.org's webmaster. I hope they can fix this ASAP because no one will want to visit the site with all these security warnings!

Robin and everyone,

While this message is indeed very scary, the good news is that our website vendor was right on Robin's heels to contact LBDA about the problem and they had already ensured that our site is safe to use.

The following announcement is going out via email to all newsletter subscribers, being posted on our forum, to the Yahoo support groups, to volunteers, etc. It is also now posted on our homepage.

Our appreciation goes out to Robin for being the first person to notify us of this problem!

Angela



An Important Website Alert from LBDA

Some visitors who are accessing LBDA’s website via a Google search or the Firefox browser are temporarily receiving a warning that LBDA’s website may contain harmful software. This was due to a third party script that infected our website vendor’s server. Thankfully, the script was immediately contained and www.lbda.org is safe for all visitors to use.

Our website vendor is working closely with Google to remove the warning announcement, though it will take a day or two for that process to be complete. In the meantime, they will be moving our website to another server which has not been flagged by Google. Our site will be down briefly (less than an hour) sometime in the next 24 hours.

We appreciate your patience while this problem is fully resolved.

Robin,
Thanks for helping to get the problem with the website resolved by letting Angela know, Both Jim and I were away for the past 2 days.
Thanks Again!
Irene

Is everyone else as frustrated with the Forum as I am?

The malware/hacker problem finally got fixed late Tuesday 6/30, and since then the site has been either down entirely or, this morning, the site was viewable for messages but not for posting.

The website vendor has apparently changed the URL to community.lbda.org/forum (rather than www.lbda.org/forum).

Each web page loads *very* slowly.

I hope these problems on lbda.org and the Forum can end soon...


An update a short while later: When I posted the message above, I received an error message. However, the post did appear.

I tried all day to get the board to load and a blank page would come up.
And it sure is slow