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30 Sep 16 - 08:44 PM (#3812122) Subject: Tech: ? re: Ebay Auctions From: frogprince I've bought a few small items on Ebay auctions. I've skimmed the collectable car auctions quite a bit just for fun. A few days ago I bid (in good faith) on a car, but the bidding ended short of the reserve. For the last couple of days, any auction ad on Ebay comes up partially blocked, with a warning, "unsafe content", at the top. Anybody else getting this? |
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30 Sep 16 - 09:31 PM (#3812129) Subject: RE: Tech: ? re: Ebay Auctions From: Stilly River Sage Have you run a scan of your computer? |
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30 Sep 16 - 10:15 PM (#3812136) Subject: RE: Tech: ? re: Ebay Auctions From: frogprince Not yet, I suppose I should. I haven't seen any problem anywhere but those Ebay ads, though. |
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01 Oct 16 - 03:03 AM (#3812146) Subject: RE: Tech: ? re: Ebay Auctions From: GUEST,Peter Laban It looks like your virus scan (McAfee?) is blocking content based on a scan of the URL. It can sometimes find a link to another site it considers unsafe and block a whole site that provided the link, as a 'directing site', on the back of that. If that is the case you should be able to 'whitelist' Ebay in the programme that doe the blocking. |
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01 Oct 16 - 03:51 AM (#3812149) Subject: RE: Tech: ? re: Ebay Auctions From: Mr Red No problemo in Rouge Towers |
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01 Oct 16 - 03:57 AM (#3812150) Subject: RE: Tech: ? re: Ebay Auctions From: Jack Campin Perhaps the warning is for real and the auction you bid on had something very dodgy about it that got your computer infected with a trojan. |
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01 Oct 16 - 09:19 AM (#3812170) Subject: RE: Tech: ? re: Ebay Auctions From: frogprince Just seems funny that I haven't found anything amiss anywhere except ebay auction items. Even straight sale items on ebay come up ok. I started a full scan with windows defender last night. Ten hours, it showed only a small fraction of the progress bar, and I'm still getting the baloney. The warnings didn't start until at least a day after I did the bidding. I have a "quick scan" running, so we'll see if that does anything. (Thanks for thoughts so far). |
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01 Oct 16 - 09:22 AM (#3812171) Subject: RE: Tech: ? re: Ebay Auctions From: GUEST,Peter Laban Can you tell us what is putting up the warnings and blocking the site. I think that the key to finding out what's going on. |
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01 Oct 16 - 09:48 AM (#3812175) Subject: RE: Tech: ? re: Ebay Auctions From: frogprince I'm searching with windows 10 "edge". On each individual auction item, everything appears except that the "detailed item information" block is blanked in solid red, with an x'd-badge-shield image. The same shield shows in the address line at the very top of the tab page, with that and "unsafe content" in red. |
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01 Oct 16 - 09:58 AM (#3812176) Subject: RE: Tech: ? re: Ebay Auctions From: frogprince I just tried Firefox, and everything came up normally. Windows defender on quick scan didn't find any "threats". |
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01 Oct 16 - 10:13 AM (#3812178) Subject: RE: Tech: ? re: Ebay Auctions From: frogprince Also all normal using chrome-plated google. I'm generally using edge because, since the gods on mount Microsoft made the decision to gift me with 10, I have had to dig up the password for every site using any other browser; can't retain a single cookie, or email to any group, with any other browser. |
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01 Oct 16 - 10:24 AM (#3812182) Subject: RE: Tech: ? re: Ebay Auctions From: DaveRo I think this is a feature of Windows 10's 'Smartscreen' feature, which I noticed was installed in the recent v1607 (Anniversary) update. This on the ebay forum suggests ebay may need to tighen up the way they serve pages. https://community.ebay.com/t5/Selling/Now-What-Description-area-is-a-big-red-box-marked-Unsafe-Content/td-p/26063990 I suspect it's trying to detect 'mixed content' in iframes: you can google that but it's essentially an exploit used to inject malware into websites. But I'm guessing. |
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01 Oct 16 - 11:29 AM (#3812195) Subject: RE: Tech: ? re: Ebay Auctions From: GUEST,Peter Laban I think this is a feature of Windows 10's 'Smartscreen' feature, which I noticed was installed in the recent v1607 (Anniversary) update. I keep getting warnings recently my virus scanning is not up to scratch (it is) and I need to turn on Smartscreen. You may be on to something there. |
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01 Oct 16 - 11:36 AM (#3812198) Subject: RE: Tech: ? re: Ebay Auctions From: Stilly River Sage I dumbed down as many of those Windows features as I could, turned off "Cortana" and never use Edge. Here's a page with a movie you should watch - she gives you ways to turn off Windows 10 nosy features: How to Reclaim Your Privacy in Windows 10 They may need to release a new video now that the "Anniversary" update has loaded more crap into to the computer. |
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01 Oct 16 - 11:37 AM (#3812200) Subject: RE: Tech: ? re: Ebay Auctions From: frogprince At least, thank Zeus, it apparently doesn't have anything to do with my computer contracting any form of plague. |
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01 Oct 16 - 11:48 AM (#3812203) Subject: RE: Tech: ? re: Ebay Auctions From: Stilly River Sage I just rewatched the video myself and found that during the recent update Windows had turned back on the slider to send my keystrokes to Microsoft. Insidious program. I know, I know, I should try Linux . . . |
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01 Oct 16 - 12:05 PM (#3812209) Subject: RE: Tech: ? re: Ebay Auctions From: GUEST,Peter Laban I haven't, so far at least, noticed Windows reversing any privacy settings (and I do keep a tight watch). I did go to Bing/Microsoft to turn off all advertising and gathering of personal data settings. Would that make the difference? |