UGN Security Forums UGN Security: Underground Off Topic UGN is dangerous!

So I'm at this office where I have to do a few windows installs, so after I finish the first box, I install their Trend Micro Pc-cillin Internet Security 2009.

I was getting bored waiting for the rest of the computer to finish the install so I decided to do some browsing. I open up internet explorer and enter UnderGroundNews.com but instead of the nice black and blue colors we all know and love I'm seeing this [censored]:


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I already had a bad impression about Trend Micro's internet security software since it has a higher resource usage and a lower detection rate then Eset or Kaspersky, not to mention incompatibility issues with VPN software, like the one made by Check Point, but now I know their internet security is [censored].

Someone should ask them how did they figure out that UGN is dangerous.

I emailed them, though I doubt they'll have the courtesy to respond...

DG, what URL does it give you when you click the report button?

I got an email from TM, evidently they thought i was referring to email vs my site, eventhough i mentioned it numerous times (we don't even offer mail on our server ip's, so i knew we'd pass their spam test)...

Now to wait on the next...

Just reposting here what I posted on the @undergroundnews Twitter feed:


I keep getting canned responses basically stating that I'm retarded and don't understand how to use their products... When I'm not using their products...

I also posted on my twitter account (@Gremelin) to @TrendMicro:


Oh, and get this, the ad for this thread? TrendMicro... So next message I'm stating that I'm going to be banning their Google Image/DoubleClick.net Ad's from my security-related site until this issue is rectified.

Heres the ad:
http://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/pagead/imgad?id=CLugho3znPa1VBDYBRhaMggupl0JHCLepw

Just posted on @undergroundnews:

So, the latest patterns update should fix this issue and everyone should be able to visit the site again. The strange thing is, from a security standpoint i can see why they'd block such tools, however i can also see benefits to having them.

For now, UGN will no longer link to "possible" malicious tools on the site; though you can still use Google to find 3rd party resources for these (including the UPIN tools, which where also removed).

I'd like to thank TrendMicro for removing us from your lists, I'm curious if it was my constant emails, or my babling to @TrendMicro or just the redesign of the site closing the old file base :P...

I'm sure our data center breathed a sigh of relief as well since they've been trying to get us to purge the files anyway...

And for those of you wondering where this leaves the BOTW drawup I've been working relentlessly on; it doesn't, everything is still on track and I still plan to release a system on it later in the summer season.