Hi there fine members of THC



Kaspersky anti virus has now listed kicks-ass.org as having a security / web threat warning…



There is no threat on THC anywhere, so you can ignore the warning or read on…





I don’t have Kaspersky or Symantic on this comp as I run Linux, but with the help of gumble I at least narrowed it down



this is the warning that appears:









Kaspersky has no listings or ways to look up info on reported threats directly at their site, so I had to go elsewhere.



AVG on the other hand is much more helpful!



With AVG, I found it wasn’t “horrorcharnel.kicks-ass.org” that was the problem, but another subdomain of kicks-ass. this is what I found:



30-day site report for: kicks-ass.org

Currently Safe

No current active threats appear on this domain. However, during the last 30 days potentially active threats did appear on a subdomain…



Blackhole Exploit Kit





you can test this yourself by using AVG’s tool:

http://www.avgthreatlabs.com/sitereports/domain/kicks-ass.org/



We take security and safety seriously here at THC! I wanted to be sure there was nothing to worry about, so I looked a bit more…



McAfee likes us: [ http://www.mcafee.com/threat-intelligence/site/ ]

This page shows information on the URL’s web reputation, affiliations, dns servers and associations.

http://www.horrorcharnel.kicks-ass.org Minimal Risk



McAfee wrote:When we visited this site, we found that most of its links are to sites which are safe or have only minor safety/annoyance issues.





finally, webutation.net [ http://www.webutation.net/go/review/horrorcharnel.kicks-ass.org?req=firefox#webmasters_tab ]

gave us an 80/100. I’m guessing we lost 20 points for “WoT (Web of Trust)” whatever that is



We are working on this issue, and hope to have it resolved soon.

THC is safe and malware free, and it always will be!



If you are concerned with the warning, feel free to bypass kicks-ass.org and use our direct IP address:

http://67.21.232.187



We had this problem once before with kicks-ass.org,

FireFox had us listed as a phishing site. No! not that kind of fishing!

It took a month or so to clear up. Let’s hope we can do it faster this time!



cheers!