Weird “malware” warning with some uploaded.net links. I’m telling you just in case, it’s bullshit, my files are clean :)

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By Oliver (AKA the Admin) on 15 comments
in Categories: Just Talking

Hey everyone :)

Since yesterday evening, some people, me included, have see a weird malware warning coming from uploaded.net regarding some of my files. If you click the download link to some of my files with their uploaded.net (ul.to) link, your web browser might refuse to finish the download with the warning there is malware in the file.

Disclaimer, on top of all : MY FILES ARE CLEAN :D

Below, I explain in greater lengths what it’s all about, and ask for help if someone might understand where the hell it’s coming from :)

It’s the very same file I’m uploading to my file hosts, and only uploaded.net triggers this warning.

Also, apparently, not all web browsers trigger the warning. With firefox, your download is blocked and there’s no doing anything about it, but with Chrome you can force the download… and when I run binary comparisons between the “original” file (on my hard disk, with depositfiles, with rapidgator, I tested them all) and the uploaded.net version, they’re binary-identical (I tested). Which really makes me wonder why there is this malware warning O_o :shock:

In the meantime, if you face the warning with uploaded.net please don’t panic and simply either forced-finish the download with Chrome rather than Firefox, or use another browser, or another file host, sorry for the annoyance.

Besides, please, if YOU understand why there is this mess, you’re more than welcome to help ^_^
Further examples : a direct download version of the official original archive, it’s from that file that were created the other versions, the one at uploaded.net (where it triggered the warning) and the ones at depositfiles and rapidgator (where it didn’t trigger the warning). I also made an altered uploaded.net version (I took out files, renamed a bit, reuploaded, and for reasons unknown, voilà, clean! O_o)

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Lurker
Lurker
9 years ago

Didn’t get anything.
Tried the inbrowser download manager and jdownloader with nothing odd happeing.
Also the hash on the same file is identical from the different sources.
Maybe AV program?

Adalbert
Adalbert
9 years ago

si ça peut te rassurer, y'a pas que tes fichiers qui sont concernés, des fichiers d'autres sites m'ont occasionné le même blocage chez uploaded.

Oliver AKA The Admin
Admin
9 years ago
Reply to  Adalbert

YESSS!!

Désolé pour toi, hein, mais ça me rassure de n'être pas le seul à avoir le problème ^^

For everyone else, here is what Adalbert said : other files from other sites have caused him the same block with uploaded.net
To which I replied : YESSS! Sorry for you, but I'm glad I am not alone with this :)

JGNDNonoy
JGNDNonoy
9 years ago

IMHO kind Sir, it might be due to uploaded.net's in-site DL manager, I have had many occasions in which the manager itself is being singled out by my primary Laptop Anti-Virus(Kaspersky) and my secondary(ESET), but it may just be my Anti-Virus Programs are Dumb as Fuck.

Please correct me if I am mistaken.

Oliver AKA The Admin
Admin
9 years ago
Reply to  JGNDNonoy

How may I correct you, would chaining you to the radiator and talking to you in German suffice ?

For you're wrong, here this is a different problem entirely, the block happens when the file download just ended, and it's caused by the browser, not the antivirus ^^

Drool
Drool
9 years ago

Yeah, got the same kind of warning about a BeautyLeg file I downloaded last night. My Firefox browser freaked due to some automated Google site warning. I'm pretty sure I can tell the difference between a picture and a virus though!

Oliver AKA The Admin
Admin
9 years ago
Reply to  Drool

Hm, this is weird, what is this BeautyLeg thing ?

Oh, sorry, I was losing from sight the matter at hand :D

At least I'm glad I am not the only person having the issue, it's already something…

Wazzaby
Wazzaby
9 years ago

http://thehackernews.com/2015/03/casper-surveilla

I don't know man =/ , its even more suspicious now…. :S
:p
xD

Oliver AKA The Admin
Admin
9 years ago
Reply to  Wazzaby

I wonder if I really belong to the same target group, frankly.
*cough*not*cough*

eljefe245
eljefe245
9 years ago

I used internet explorer and renamed the file name to save it at desktop or anywhere.

Oliver AKA The Admin
Admin
9 years ago
Reply to  eljefe245

Good guy IE. That said, I have high hopes for their Trojan future browser, innovation can come from all sides :)

MaxBigfoot
MaxBigfoot
9 years ago

If you go into Firefox’s tools/options/security and uncheck ‘block reported attack sites’, the downloads will come thru fine again.

As far as I’ve been able to tell, the problem is Firefox uses Google’s bad file reporting system and someone is reporting these files. So Firefox blocks them, and I can’t find any way to stop it from using Google to check these.

Oliver AKA The Admin
Admin
9 years ago
Reply to  MaxBigfoot

Oh, hey Max, it had been a long time I saw your name anywhere, I hope you've been well!

Thanks for the tip, but even with my files, I'd rather stay protected just in case, if I make an exception "because of me" me but let other real problem files pass through, I would come to regret it :|

I would have started panicking with the idea that someone might have been reporting my files, however it may be a larger issue, two persons above already have reported they've experienced the same problem with different uploaded.net links, from different sites.

This may be cynical, but the more the merrier, if the problem is large enough then it's uploaded.net themselves who'll get to working on fixing the issue, even if it is Google's fault (something we can't tell, heh.)

MaxBigfoot
MaxBigfoot
9 years ago

Hi Oliver, yeah, I’m still alive. No, I’d found this problem with uploaded.net last week from other sites, not yours. This was the only way I could get them to download, and as I’m a paying customer for uploaded, I didn’t want to stop using them.

fghjghjmk
9 years ago

A lot of these sites try pushing a “download manager” or “accelerator” or somethign that is a .exe and you have to uncheck the box to actually download the file.