Uh oh Norton now thinks PF is an unsafe site

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Norton has flagged Physics Forums (PF) as an unsafe site, prompting user concerns about a potential auto-update that may have incorrectly categorized the site. Despite this warning, the official Norton website still lists PF as safe. Users speculate that the issue may be linked to specific ads on the site, as similar problems have occurred in the past with Google flagging posts due to malware warnings from certain images. One user reported cleaning up numerous posts last month due to these warnings. The situation remains under observation, with users encouraged to stay updated on any further developments.
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Just got a message from Norton that I should not visit PF because it is an unsafe site.

Did not get this message at any time up to 1/2 hour ago so I assume Norton has done an auto-update that has bad info on PF.
 
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Probably tagged one of the inserted ads.
 
UltrafastPED said:
Probably tagged one of the inserted ads.

Yeah, that could be it. I'm not getting it now.
 
Keep me updated on this. I had to clean up a few hundred posts last month because Google showed malware warning on posts that used smilie images from planetsmiley
 
Greg Bernhardt said:
Keep me updated on this. I had to clean up a few hundred posts last month because Google showed malware warning on posts that used smilie images from planetsmiley

Greg, I haven't seen it since that one time, so I'm assuming that it WAS because of a particular ad. I'll let you know for sure if it happen again.
 

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