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Posted: November 10th, 2008
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This needs to be addressed!
Using Firefox now blocks access to tault unleashed.

What is the current listing status for taultunleashed.com?

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

Part of this site was listed for suspicious activity 2 time(s) over the past 90 days.

What happened when Google visited this site?

Of the 120 pages that we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 3 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. The last time that Google visited this site was on 2008-11-09, and the last time that suspicious content was found on this site was on 2008-11-09.

Malicious software is hosted on 1 domain(s), including microsoftst.com.

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

Over the past 90 days, taultunleashed.com 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 website, 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 Centre.

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FireShot Pro capture #2 - 'Reported Attack Site!' - www_taultunleashed_com_phpbb2_index_php_f=267&ppage=25&sort=lastpost&order=DESC.jpg (50.8 KiB) Viewed 50 times
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FireShot capture #1 - 'Google Safe Browsing diagnostic page for taultunleashed_com' - safebrowsing_clients_google_com_safebrowsing_diagnostic_client=Firefox&hl=en-GB&site=www_taul.jpg (105.72 KiB) Viewed 54 times

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Posted: November 10th, 2008
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Its a small loophole someone found with phpbb that is fixed now. They found another one last week. We fixed both of them and the site should be clean shortly.
Posted: November 18th, 2008
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Happy days!

I am glad you got it sorted :-)

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