Sacred 2 Official Site Flagged by Norton?

[belgarathmth 21]

Hello, I just tried to go to the Sacred 2 official site. My Norton Antivirus Security Suite denied entry.

 

Norton has flagged the official site as a "fake redirect, driveby malicious download", and claims that the Sacred 2 site attempts to involuntarily download malicious software.

 

Does anyone know what is going on with this?

[Dragon Brother 619]

Ive not seen that before...I'm guessing you mean www.sacred2.com?

 

Perhaps try this link (direct link for english page, the above site gives you a choice between several languages).

[czevak 57]

Hello, I just tried to go to the Sacred 2 official site. My Norton Antivirus Security Suite denied entry.

 

Norton has flagged the official site as a "fake redirect, driveby malicious download", and claims that the Sacred 2 site attempts to involuntarily download malicious software.

 

Does anyone know what is going on with this?

 

I guess it has to do with the way you are redirected to the language chooser portal (landingpage). Norton produces a lot of false positives.

[gogoblender 3,069]

Norton produces a lot of false positives.

 

 

This is what I wanted to mention as well. We used to use it a lot years back, but there were so many false positives, many of them just plain outrageous.

 

We don't use Norton anymore

 

 

gogo

[dropmod 0]

Hello, I just tried to go to the Sacred 2 official site. My Norton Antivirus Security Suite denied entry.

 

Norton has flagged the official site as a "fake redirect, driveby malicious download", and claims that the Sacred 2 site attempts to involuntarily download malicious software.

 

Does anyone know what is going on with this?

 

Hi, try another antivirus... I use Avira Free Edition... and I dont have any problems

[belgarathmth 21]

Okay, thanks for the info, but I'm going to stick with Norton's strictness and erring on the side of caution.

 

I used to use McAfee, and I had two operating systems on two different computers destroyed by viruses that it let through.

 

EDIT: Okay, I tried that link, and it's flagged and blocked. I guess I just won't go there again. Fortunately, Dark Matters is still safe, and I like this site better anyway.

 

If it is a false positive, sometimes those get reported and resolved in a few days by the webmasters and/or moderators of the flagged site and the security company that flagged them.

Edited October 7, 2011 by belgarathmth

[desm 329]

I doubt this one to be corrected one day...

 

And for the Anti-virus, the best one is... you (but I use Avira too in case)

[gogoblender 3,069]

Fortunately, Dark Matters is still safe, and I like this site better anyway.

 

 

 

gogo

[lujate 576]

darkmatters still works, right? Then what is the problem?

 

Does it not allow you to override the block?

[Zodiac-Mindwarp 24]

Norton also comes up with Sacred2.com as unsafe for me, but it does allow me to surf the site and I have not had a problem there, which leads me to agree with czevak's suggestion that it is a false positive.