Google Chrome blocks access to PLOS-ONE.

http://www.plosone.org/

by mahesh_rm • 14 years ago

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mahesh_rm4• 14 years ago

Does anybody know what's going on with PlosOne? How comes nobody is saying anything about this? A lot of research in my field is published on PlosOne, I suspect a lot of people are now stuck with their job.

peteforde• 14 years ago

It's Christmas; whatever is going on is temporary and will likely be resolved before you wake up tomorrow.

thefreeman• 14 years ago

Looks like a lot of sites were hacked. Clicking through the safebrowsing link above reveals ~1600 other domains.

Irene• 14 years ago

It's not only Chrome, Firefox blocks it too: "This web page at www.plosone.org has been reported as an attack page and has been blocked based on your security preferences." Still works on Safari and IE.

mahesh_rm4• 14 years ago

That's true. This is really weird. I wonder what kind of malicious code did they find there.

nthitz• 14 years ago

Chrome & FF use the same safebrowsing API I think.

eykanal• 14 years ago

Safari version 6.0.2 (8536.26.17) is blocking it now as well.

0x0• 14 years ago

And here is the reason given:

http://safebrowsing.clients.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnost...

"5 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent."

james-skemp• 14 years ago

Latest version for Android (on a Nexus 7) lets it load just fine. Maybe it's already resolved, or maybe that version does things differently?

jlarocco• 14 years ago

I just visited in Chromium without a problem.

mahesh_rm4• 14 years ago

It's perhaps some windows specific malware, and this would also explain why it's not blocked in andorid and in some safaris.

salilpa• 14 years ago

Blocked in ubuntu chromium, cannot be os specific

mahesh_rm4• 14 years ago

I am puzzled by the admins decision to remove this from frontpage.

wmf• 14 years ago

I (non-admin) flagged this because the headline is alarmist and I think stories about transient outages, hackings, accidental de-indexing etc. are not HN-worthy. As someone else said, give it a day or two and then start to worry about it.

DoItYourself• 14 years ago

I'm seeing it on my Windows 7 device with Firefox (although I'm too lazy to try Chrome). It works fine with IE and on my Mac with Firefox. My guess this is a transient problem. Something has gone wrong with PlosOne site and I suggest we all keep trying until it's resolved. Has anyone notified PlosOne? I'll go ahead and send a message to make sure they're on it.

jbstewart• 14 years ago

I was reviewing a paper, and cannot submit the review due to this. I have e-mailed their main webpage with a link to the warning, etc.

J_Sulli• 14 years ago

Still blocked by Firefox on my Ubuntu box. I found out when I was testing reference urls that are in a blog post I was preparing. Annoying, I guess I'll have to wait a couple of days until it's sorted out.

ectonym• 14 years ago

Have you tried turning it off and on again?

The site loaded just fine for me in Chrome on Windows, but I've restarted my computer once today already.

Google Chrome blocks access to PLOS-ONE.

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