Thursday, April 28, 2011

Magic Magazine Site Not Safe For Browsing

What's the deal Stan Allen? Should we worry about iPad apps too?

Warning - visiting this web site may harm your computer!

Suggestions:Or you can continue to http://www.magicmagazine.com/ at your own risk. For detailed information about the problems we found, visit Google's Safe Browsing diagnostic page for this site.

For more information about how to protect yourself from harmful software online, you can visit StopBadware.org.

If you are the owner of this web site, you can request a review of your site using Google's Webmaster Tools. More information about the review process is available in Google's Webmaster Help Center.
Advisory provided byGoogle

What is the current listing status for www.magicmagazine.com?

Site is listed as suspicious - visiting this web site 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 86 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 12 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. The last time Google visited this site was on 2011-04-28, and the last time suspicious content was found on this site was on 2011-04-28.

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

This site was hosted on 1 network(s) including AS26347 (DREAMHOST).

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

Over the past 90 days, www.magicmagazine.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.

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