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Do not block legitimate Web sites
Hello. When Opera was the anti-virus program? At the entrance to the site displays a red bar that Web site distribute malware. All of the world anti-virus software as Kaspersky, Dr.Web and others show that the web site is not dangerous, and Opera says that one is dangerous. This caused a resonance that Opera will block all sites despite the fact that it is dangerous or safe. Thus, website owners get together to set joint action and to take joint action in court against the opera.
It is not exactly Opera blocking that website. Opera integrated a function to block known bad sites via a black list (which is not provided from Opera). As you can even see in the warning site, which Opera opens instead of the page (unless you chose to ignore it), the black list is provided from Yandex.
http://help.yandex.com/search/?id=1111971
Information on the website's potential threat is provided by Yandex.
http://help.yandex.com/search/?id=1111971
How does Yandex know this site is harmful?
Yandex periodically checks the content of sites that appear in its search results. To determine whether harmful code is present or not, we use our own antivirus software and antivirus system provided by our partner Sophos®.
What should I do if it's my site?
Please delete the malicious code. When your site is checked again, and no such code is found, the label will be removed.
Opera 18
Latest Opera-Snapshot
Windows 8.1
Latest Opera-Snapshot
Windows 8.1
no code pagesPlease delete the malicious code. When your site is checked again, and no such code is found, the label will be removed.
........we use our own antivirus software and antivirus system provided by our partner Sophos®.
and who the Yandex for Opera? Yandex 7 Friday in the week, it is not prestigious to spoil your browser by third parties.
PS: if Opera has partners antivirus Sophos ®, what needs to be on the basis of their data to draw conclusions about the sites. As Opera decides if Yandex says site is infected, and Sophos ® says Sait safe. That means Opera does not take into account the functions of its partner Sophos ®.
Yandex periodically scans websites according to their site with Sophos. If at that time Sophos found something (which could be a false alert or not), that site will be added to the black list. Opera uses this black list. The next time Yandex scans this site and Sophos this time finds nothing then the site will be removed from the black list and thus no longer blocked by Opera. I have no idea which time is between these two scans, but you can guess that because of this you can see the case that Sophos no longer detects something on that site, while that site is still on the black list from Yandex.
This is all nothing special as other browsers (for example internet explorer as far as i know) also use stuff like this (a blacklist). So false positives can happen, but today with all these issues called for example "Cross-site scripting (XSS)" it is not uncommon that big sites could spread malware.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-site_scripting
This is all nothing special as other browsers (for example internet explorer as far as i know) also use stuff like this (a blacklist). So false positives can happen, but today with all these issues called for example "Cross-site scripting (XSS)" it is not uncommon that big sites could spread malware.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-site_scripting
Opera 18
Latest Opera-Snapshot
Windows 8.1
Latest Opera-Snapshot
Windows 8.1
@ icompot12
And the site is not even secure as your screen shot shows a `http' instead of a `https'
It is not the opera's fault if the yandex is showing the bad site.
also the google and the many other also stopping the bad sites.
but at times the many blocks to malicious sites are incorrect, however most sites that do get blacklisted (including my-opera at times)
are because bad picture has been posted by user or malware has been posted by user.
This is to protect opera users from this bad things.
And the site is not even secure as your screen shot shows a `http' instead of a `https'
It is not the opera's fault if the yandex is showing the bad site.
also the google and the many other also stopping the bad sites.
but at times the many blocks to malicious sites are incorrect, however most sites that do get blacklisted (including my-opera at times)
are because bad picture has been posted by user or malware has been posted by user.
This is to protect opera users from this bad things.
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* nvidia geforce 6200 - 512mb agp 8x * AOC 24" @ 1920by1200 * 3G mobile broadband * Opera 12 / Chromium 18
http://my.opera.com/DuncanWilliams
Any obvious that if the site is bad then it must be protected from users. The idea is that if Opera is not an antivirus program then why assume such a role, but still does not qualitatively, that's what we're talking. Opera is a browser, antivirus software is a completely different level, respectively, each must do their job perfectly well, and not to assume all functions and do all bad. It so happened that we phoned to antivirus companies and by Yandex and all settled and removed the lock, and then climbed another, and Opera, despite the fact that no browser is not blocking our site, and therefore had to prove what a browser, and describe a situation in which they generally do not understand, because they are not anti-virus program. The conclusion is: to make each his own business!
