Comics by Shaenon II

by **Serith** on Fri Jul 25, 2008 1:36 pm

A minute ago, I was looking something up from the Narbonic director's commentary, and found that Google had the website listed as potentially harmful. I looked at the website on a safer OS , but I couldn't find anything about the problem anywhere. I figure it's probably a mistake, but I'm paranoid enough about these things that I can't just ignore it. Does anyone know why the site got listed as dangerous?

by **SoItBegins** on Fri Jul 25, 2008 2:26 pm

No, but I've emailed Joey Manley [the owner of WebComicsNation] to let him know.

by **Shaenon** on Fri Jul 25, 2008 11:26 pm

Yeah, we're well aware of it. I don't know what's going on.

by **Peni Griffin** on Sat Jul 26, 2008 4:29 am

Has anybody been putting up comics about controversial subjects? UFOs, government cover-ups, evolution, realistic birth control, perpetual motion machines, the recent rising of Ryleh?

You know, stuff THEY don't want us to know that THEY don't want us to know about?

by **SoItBegins** on Sat Jul 26, 2008 9:24 am

Ummm... you realize that this is a webcomics site we're talking about? There's bound to be something like that up there.

P.S: Perpetual motion machines don't exist. If you want to prove otherwise, you build one.

by **Peni Griffin** on Sat Jul 26, 2008 10:03 am

SoItBegins wrote:P.S: Perpetual motion machines don't exist. If you want to prove otherwise, you build one.

And Ryleh does?

And if I built a perpetual motion machine, THEY would come down on me like a ton of bricks. No thank you!

by **dvandom** on Sat Jul 26, 2008 9:30 pm

Now Webcomicsnation is just plain 404'ed.

---Dave

by **Channing** on Sun Jul 27, 2008 2:25 am

Well, this is in no small way distressing.

by **Tim Tylor** on Sun Jul 27, 2008 4:36 am

At least it's off the malicious list now - it was back to normal last night, and it's been taken off the suspect-sites database. The present trouble looks like a domain-registration snafu.

The warning notices I was getting yesterday in Firefox linked to this diagnostic message:

What happened when Google visited this site?

Of the 11 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 0 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. The last time Google visited this site was on 07/15/2008, and suspicious content was never found on this site within the past 90 days.

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

Over the past 90 days, www.webcomicsnation.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.

Maybe it was zen malware. The sound of one hand hacking?

by **Bo Lindbergh** on Sun Jul 27, 2008 7:40 am

The contact info for the webcomicsnation.com registration has the old subscriptions@moderntales.com address, which I seem to recall Joey giving up on years ago because of the spam volume.

by **Shaenon** on Mon Jul 28, 2008 2:50 pm

Okay, everything should be hunky-dory again. Whew.

by **Channing** on Mon Jul 28, 2008 3:29 pm

What an amazing adventure we had!

by **Shaenon** on Mon Jul 28, 2008 9:40 pm

I hate our horrible adventures!

by **chicgeek** on Mon Jul 28, 2008 10:00 pm

At least it wasn't through a dank basement...

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