Doom9 Issues

[DarrellS]

Anyone else having problems accessing Doom9's forums? I haven't been able to access Doom9 for a couple of weeks now. I checked one site that tracks websites and it says that Doom9 is up and it's my PC that is the problem but I've tried different browsers and cannot access Doom9's forum. I can access the Doom9 website but not the forms. I have gotten warnings from Chrome/Avast in the past stating that Doom9 is a dangerous site and asking me if I'm sure I want to access their forum. I just updated Avast so I guess it's possible that they are blocking Doom9 but I'd think they'd give me a warning.

It might be possible that two major video forums shut down in the last two weeks.

[poisondeathray]

It's up right now

If your security software is the issue, can you add an exception / rule with Avast ?

Or maybe you pissed someone off and got an IP ban / suspension (or more affectionately called "vacation" ) ? It's been known to happen there ...

[manono]

It's up now and has been up the entire two weeks you've been unable to access it.

[Seeker47]

There are some sites I regularly visit and perhaps should not mention here (like Avaxsearch.Org) which sometimes prove to be "unreachable." At certain times this can be due to site maintenance, or the site just being offline for awhile. This can be tested easily enough via sites like http://www.isitdownrightnow.com/ or http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/. Usually it turns out that the site is still up & running. I have both Avast! and Mbam to screen out malware. These AV programs are quite typical in that they are frequently overzealous in flagging places that they claim you should NOT EVER go to. In one case, I did some further checking at security-oriented forums (like Wilders), and was told that a particular website got painted as being dangerous because it was using a flawed older version of Apache Server that supposedly allowed all sorts of bad things to transpire. {*} (I now wish I had bookmarked the website that lets you input a URL to secure a report on the fine details of such "security risks." It was something a lot more specific and comprehensive than VirusTotal.) Anyway, to most of this stuff I say "BS ! If it's important enough to me I'll take the damn risk and go there, regardless." These two AV programs were indeed responsible for blocking my access, in most of those cases. Sometimes I had to repeatedly enter Exception / Exclusion / Whitelist rules into these programs -- or even to reboot the computer after doing so, before this would be sure to take effect. And I might have to do this again, from time to time, because it might not stick. I absolutely hate it when some program blocks you from doing something like this that you should be able to do. (It's in much the same vein as that extremely annoying, brain-dead UAC in Windows, which I make sure to disable whenever I install the OS. Don't tell me what I can't be allowed to do !) I would be inclined to ditch these programs and do without AV altogether, before I would let them rule over my computer.

[* Just f.y.i., I believe the site that was so blacklisted was anything you can view at http://stream-recorder.com/forum/. Even now, Avast! is going apeshit when I try to go there. That's not acceptable, since that site contains tons of useful info etc., and is often referenced. I don't give a damn if there is something wrong with their Apache server. I'll take my chances !]

[DarrellS]

It shows 5 files in the virus chest. two cmd.exe and three imagemagick configuration files. Avast does not like to see cmd.exe anywhere except C:\Windows\System32. Seeing imagemagick makes me wonder if Avast is keeping me from opening multilayered .psd files with Avisynth which it claims it will do. Usually when I have trouble with files in Windows 7, I'll check sharing and if it is not shared, I have to do advanced sharing and also use "Take Ownership" which I would not use Windows 7 at all without. It's a shame when your OS and anti-virus are your biggest malware items.

It's possible that I got banned since they are so sensitive over there but I didn't say anything that should've gotten me banned. I think I recommended a Virtualdub user either use videohelp or the Virtualdub forum (shut down and is in read mode) since Doom9 wasn't very supportive to Virtualdub users (which is fact but they don't like being labeled as biased.

I had been trying to update Windows 7 to SP1 the last couple of weeks (well ever since I installed the OS) which I was finally able to do. For anyone who likes to have anything Microsoft turned off needs to use this program to get updates...

wsusoffline

I did have to answer the security question for my bank today because it saw me as a different computer. Again, updated Avast and installed SP1.

EDIT: Chrome recommended that I check each extension to see if it was an extension causing the problem and although I didn't find an extension causing the problem, I clicked on the stop button while the page was loading and the page appeared. Not sure what to do now. Google I guess. Oh and I'm not banned