Security software mistakenly categorize Netvibes as malicious
Some of you reported to us that Netvibes was recently blocked by Trend Micro, McAfee, Websense, FortiGuard and some other pieces of software. It looks like Netvibes has been identified by mistake as a possible threat because of a new IE 0day exploit and we’ve contacted the software editors to fix it.
If your antivirus, proxy or firewall was blocking Netvibes, it should be working again now. We apologize for the inconvenience even if the issue wasn’t on our side. If you still can’t access netvibes.com, try to contact your network administrator or security software editor and let us know about it.
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- Security update in 3rd parties modules on the ecosystem
- Netvibes maintenance this Sunday
- Update on Netvibes status
- Netvibes listed in The Best Web 2.0 Software of 2005
- Netvibes maintenance this Wednesday
- netvibes update and coming improvements
- Netvibes maintenance this Monday
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#1 | Jelle | July 16th, 2009 at 13:10
I had the problem here yesterday (behind McAfee web security) but runs really smoothly again today. Thanks for the quick fix!
#2 | blogkitten | July 16th, 2009 at 16:51
It was also being blocked by Websense as "malicious content" – but you guys quickly fixed that issue as well. Awesome (and FAST) response to the problem!
#3 | Randy | July 16th, 2009 at 16:56
Still not working for me here in San Fran
#4 | Autoversicherung | July 16th, 2009 at 18:18
I had the problem here yesterday (behind McAfee web security) but runs really smoothly again today. Thanks for the quick fix!
#5 | Flypig | July 17th, 2009 at 03:14
Symantec’s SEP 11 was also blocking it because it triggered an IDS signature.
#6 | Polenwitze | July 17th, 2009 at 08:58
Does Google also mark your site as malware page?
#7 | Bingoscotland.com | July 20th, 2009 at 22:01
I also use McAfee internet security, but never really had any issues only that it ran abit slow for a few hours seems fine today. So whatever you have done seems to of worked THANKS!
#8 | toothace | July 21st, 2009 at 23:36
Trendmicro always does that but i use mcafee but no problem at all.
#9 | Jenn | July 25th, 2009 at 00:51
This is the last straw for me using McAfee. This may not be their fault, but I have had so mnay problems with them. I have found some FREE alternatives.
#10 | Flypig | July 26th, 2009 at 07:03
Symantec SEP 11 still blocks netvibes.
#11 | Vehilink | July 28th, 2009 at 13:45
With this problem we can see that Antivirus are too much automatized . There is no (or not enough) human control…
#12 | Daniel | July 28th, 2009 at 14:40
Our work blocked it too, I immediately called helpdesk and complained! Glad your back
#13 | Blume2000 | August 1st, 2009 at 13:46
Its no longer reachable from my sons school network…
#14 | Cookplanet Gutschein | August 1st, 2009 at 13:52
I heard that it was flagged in the Google SERPs as malware temporarily.