MOB Crackdown
By Mitch Berg
If you use Google Chrome for your browser, you may have had trouble reaching Shot In The Dark or a number of other Minnesota Organization of Bloggers’ blogs this past few days.
“Blogrolling.com”, the site on which we maintain the “MOBRoll”, or list of links to MOB blogs, apparently became linked to a site that distributes “malware”. This has bubbled into the virus-watching system used by Google (and possibly others), which trips a big, ugly “warning” page when you try to access pages using Blogrolling.com blogrolls.
I have temporarily removed the MOBroll until either Blogrolling resolves the problem, or a workaround presents itself, or I have the time and energy to move all 100-odd MOB blogs to a private list.
(I’m hoping Blogrolling gets on the stick, just between us…)
September 17th, 2010 at 9:29 am
I have temporarily removed the MOBroll until either Blogrolling resolves the problem, or a workaround presents itself, or I have the time and energy to move all 100-odd MOB blogs to a private list.
(I’m hoping Blogrolling gets on the stick, just between us…)
I did the same.
September 17th, 2010 at 10:08 am
You’re the only site to comment on this problem! Re-configured son’s computer when all my sites began malware display. Thought I had inadvertenly changed my security settings. Love your stuff Mitch, keep up the great work! Have a Norwegian friend who is astounded at my WWII info re: Norskes’ role, you will remain my secret weapon. pbs had a show on Norwegian food Sunday the look on the World Traveller’s face when old man opened a can of his “fermented” herring…hilarious!!
September 17th, 2010 at 6:13 pm
This stuff doesn’t just happen, does it?
If it’s OK for them to do it to us, is it OK for us to do it to them?
Discuss.