I'm Getting A Phishing Warning On A Specific Page Here

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  1. John Brunner

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    Every time I load the first page of the Bigfoot / Sasquatch / Yeti thread, I get this Malwarebytes phishing warning:

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    I've repeated it 4 times. I am not clicking on any links...I get this warning every time the first page loads. The phishing website cited by Malwarebytes is a cryptozoology website that's directly related to this topic, but I find no reference to it in any comments or links or pics on the thread's page.

    -2 comments contain hot links to unrelated websites that seem to be clean
    -3 comments contain pictures that are hosted on the forum's server (uploaded by members)
    -1 comment contains a picture that is hosted on i.pinimg.com that seems to be clean
    -1 comment has a YouTube "Video Unavailable" black screen w/link that goes back to YouTube
    Other than that, I see nothing in comments other than text. There is nothing that loads from/points to/passively references the "questionable" website.

    This warning does not appear when the other 2 pages of this thread load, nor do I get it anywhere else on this site.
     
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    I don't see where anyone has linked to the Cryptomundo site, which is what I suspected, since it says that the problem is with an outbound link, nor am I getting any errors when I access the Cryptomundo site directly, but I don't have Firefox installed. I have tried it on Safari, Opera, and Edge, with no warnings. As you say, there is probably content on the Cryptomundo site that would be on-topic in this thread, but no one is linking to it. The ISP cited in the warning - 198.71.233.204 - doesn't seem to have any complaints, either.
     
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    I'm running the newest Firefox and Malwarebytes Premium. I get no warnings on the page at all.
     
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    Well...I just went back to that page and did not get the warning, even though I repeated it 4 times in a row before I started this thread.

    Never mind, I guess.
     
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    Before you posted this thread, but not long ago today, I deleted a post from that thread that linked to an image that was no longer available, but I don't know where that image had been hosted. I deleted it because it was a broken image, not because of any warnings.
     
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    Hey! Hey! LOOK^^^^^^^^^^
     
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    I see that the post from Joe Riley (I believe) I now gone...the one with the [​IMG]
     
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    Yeah, that was the one. I deleted it because the image was broken, as I generally do when I come across broken images, although I don't go looking for them.
     
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    You are such a good master. I bow to you.
     
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