SiteAdvisor marking downloads as dangerous

[exbrit]

SA 3.3 is the version of my beta installation of SiteAdvisor Plus.  It looks like these discussions belong in the beta group not out here.

[hippiemaster]

I am not sure about that Ex-Brit. You see, I downloaded version 3.2.0.152_4. The reason I have 3.3.160 is because probably it automatically updated itself. I never went for

the beta version myself.

[exbrit]

I meant McAfee Total Protection Beta which includes SA 3.3, sorry.  If SA is already updating to that version then I guess that particular part of it isn't beta after all.

[PattyP]

Hayton,

I am thinking now that this is all a Firefox problem as well. I am running McAfee Total protection with Site Advisor built in, and my McAfee products update regulary, even daily sometimes, so I think I am running the latest version. I am running Firefox 3.6.12. It does seem that the proble started after I upgraded to the latest version of FF. Mozilla did not announce the update. I had to download it to get FF to run properly after it began to malfunction. The release came out and did not automatically upgrade the version I was using, which I thought was odd. After FF stopped fully finctioning and I went looking for answers, found that there was a new version, that I was ugred to install it because of "security issues" and vulnerabilities in the previous version.

On the "whale in love and me" - her page showing her creation is here:

http://browse.deviantart.com/?q=whale%20in%20love%20and%20me&order=9&offset=120#/d32mrtg

It must have been at the "browse art" link I posted on the 13th, becasue it was not at any of the links I posted earluier, but I found it in a search.

Her profile page is here:

http://mimiori.deviantart.com/

It is a one of a kind (OOAK) item she created for her own enjoyment. She lives in Russia, so unless she starts making and selling them on a site like Etsy, looks like you are out of luck. You could go to her profile page, click on the link in the upper right that says "send a note" and ask her if she plans to sell any and where. You may have to set up a free account on DA to note her. If she responds, it would come to your account inbox at Deviant Art, unless you encourage her to email you at your regular address. Maybe more trouble than you wanted to incur.

Oh! I see she is selling prints of her holding it. Go here:

http://www.deviantart.com/print/15748788/

I hope that helps.

Patty P

[hippiemaster]

Hey, I just saw bara's post https://community.mcafee.com/message/162163#162163

If you noticed, in my first answer to this post here yesterday, I said that the red alerts have changed into yellow (as shown in my screenshots). This started happening the last couple of days. That's when I also started having the same issues as bara. Namely, the dialogue box where you can choose the location of a new bookmark, stopped appearing. All new bookmarks go automatically into bookmarks menu without me being asked. I was breaking my head to figure out, how the heck did this happen. I even went as far as setting firefox to its defaults settings through mozilla's safe mode, to no avail.

After reading bara's post, I disabled siteadvisor and the bookmark dialogue box was back on!! So now I am almost certain that the 2 problems are linked and based on the combination of firefox's latest version and siteadvisor. Why would siteadvisor block that bookmark choise option?

My problem was not fixed as bara's, because I already have the latest version of ff and I have tried reinstalling siteadvisor to the version given here http://www.siteadvisor.com/download/windows.html#

Is there anywhere I can get an older version of siteadvisor? Maybe this will help figure out whether it is ff or SA the culprit.

[PattyP]

Actually suddenly today, I am getting no red alerts at Deviant Art. I never did get any yellow ones. I never had the problem with bookmarking not working properly. So far, so good. Either McAfee or Firefix changed something.

Yay! Thanks to anyone here who was instrumental in getting it fixed!

Patty P

[Hayton]

PattyP, I take no credit for whatever's happened. I can only think that whatever has been causing this has noticed that we've noticed it, and has shuffled away out of sheer embarrassment  🙂

So far as I know no-one on the SiteAdvisor team at McAfee has done anything lately that would have fixed the problem(s), and I doubt that anyone from Mozilla frequents these Community pages. Although, of course, you never know.

I'll keep an eye open for any further reports of difficulties with SA 3.3 / Firefox, and will certainly raise these issues with McAfee on Monday.

Thanks for looking up the 'whale in love' info for me ...

[Hayton]

hippiemaster wrote:
My problem was not fixed as bara's, because I already have the latest version of ff and I have tried reinstalling siteadvisor to the version given here http://www.siteadvisor.com/download/windows.html#
Is there anywhere I can get an older version of siteadvisor? Maybe this will help figure out whether it is ff or SA the culprit.

If I go to the SA download page and start the download process, the version that I am going to get is the same as the one I already have, namely 3.2.0.152 - is that not the case for you?

If some people are getting 3.3 and others are still getting 3.2 then it looks like a phased rollout that hasn't got to my quiet little corner of the world yet.

I'm doing some ferreting around in the more obscure corners of the product documentation for SA and FF but haven't yet turned up much that's useful. All I've got so far is a link for SA feedback, which is http://www.siteadvisor.com/feedback.html, and a FF page detailing known problems with add-ons (including SiteAdvisor) at http://kb.mozillazine.org/Problematic_extensions. Regrettably, these problems are not included in their list, which looks rather out of date for SA.  You can also report a bug to Mozilla via a link from the Release Notes page at

http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/firefox/3.6.12/releasenotes/

If I turn up anything I'll post an update to this thread.

[Peacekeeper]

This 3.3 is it the plus version hayton has the non plus version I think?

Message was edited by: Peacekeeper on 4/12/10 8:33:36 AM

[hippiemaster]

Hayton wrote:
If I go to the SA download page and start the download process, the version that I am going to get is the same as the one I already have, namely 3.2.0.152 - is that not the case for you?

Well that's what I did. I suppose it updated itself automatically to 3.3.

I am pretty sure about this because I save the setups of the programs I download and I only have saSetup3.2.0.152_p4.exe

But even when I reinstalled it and before there was time to update itself to 3.3, it was still giving me the red allerts to almost every download.

And then, how can it block the bookmark choise option?

At least now we can be sure that the problem is between SA and Firefox (possibly the latest version). Thank you Hayton (and everyone else).