Web Forgery, Anyone Here Can Explain What It Is?

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Hello,

Today I crossed a site where firefox indicate it as web forgery site who trying to steal my identity or to do harm to my computer.

It's scary...

But my question is, is that possible firefox block that particular site because the site is implement some kind of codes for cookie stuffing?

This site will be my competitor site, if its really do cookie stuffing then I don't want to compete with the site. So i need your help here..

Please advice me is that related to cookie stuffing?

Thank you
#explain #forgery #web
  • Profile picture of the author E. Brian Rose
    It is most likely because the site was identified as a phishing site. That's when a site pretends to be PayPal or a bank and logs your username and password when you try to enter it. The owner then attempts to quickly empty your account.
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  • Profile picture of the author WillDee
    Web forgeries are generally phishing sites rather than sites that cs.
    It's more likely their site was compromised and used to host pages designed to harvest login details for another legitimate organization.
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  • Profile picture of the author mostphere
    Hi Brian and Willdee,

    I tried to googled and find that firefox also often put clean site into the web forgery type of website, and that just confusing.

    By taking the advantages of Google search listings, where at there is a small glass pic, I could preview the actual web is, it seem affiliate website, ordinary one, with newsletters on the sidebars and articles in the body, its wordpress too.

    What do you think?
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    • Profile picture of the author WillDee
      Originally Posted by mostphere View Post

      Hi Brian and Willdee,

      I tried to googled and find that firefox also often put clean site into the web forgery type of website, and that just confusing.

      By taking the advantages of Google search listings, where at there is a small glass pic, I could preview the actual web is, it seem affiliate website, ordinary one, with newsletters on the sidebars and articles in the body, its wordpress too.

      What do you think?
      The block often stays after a site has been cleaned. Webmasters are generally expected to verify their site is clean and request manual review and removal.
      So it's likely the site you've seen was infected and has been cleaned, but is still blocked. I would find it very odd for google to worry about a stuffed site.

      If you want to confirm what was blocked, click through the warning in firefox, although it's likely to get you infected or worse if the site serves malware, or check web of trust, phishtank or places like malwareurl to see why the site was added to the safe browsing index.

      http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/d...websiteurlhere

      Using the link above will tell you why it was blocked.
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  • Profile picture of the author mostphere
    Hi BloggerHigh...

    I've crossed that too, read it, and no information about cookie stuffing.

    Do you have more resources?

    Thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author mostphere
    Hi WillDee,

    Check it out, thanks for the links. The funny thing is, Google said it is a clean site, no malware etc, but in their search listings, it still redirect to warning page if we click the site link.

    Any explanation about this?

    Thank you
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    • Profile picture of the author WillDee
      Originally Posted by mostphere View Post

      Hi WillDee,

      Check it out, thanks for the links. The funny thing is, Google said it is a clean site, no malware etc, but in their search listings, it still redirect to warning page if we click the site link.

      Any explanation about this?

      Thank you
      Yes. As I said earlier...
      The block often stays after a site has been cleaned. Webmasters are generally expected to verify their site is clean and request manual review and removal.
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  • Profile picture of the author mostphere
    So WillDee,

    I would find it very odd for google to worry about a stuffed site.
    So you want to say that it is rare, but not impossible that the site is practicing cookie stuffing, or the site is not flag because of cookie stuffing but other reasons?
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  • Profile picture of the author WillDee
    I would say that it's been flagged for other reasons.
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