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Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Jul 9, 2012 at 07:34 PM
In fairness to Rael, it does say in the help file that the Evernote syncing feature should be treated as a beta—although he perhaps could make that clearer upfront. But to make matters worse, I just tried to go to the RightNote web site, but it was blocked by Norton saying there was an intrusion attempt… This is the first time that’s happened, and I’ve visited http://www.bauerapps.com several times in the past week. Just sent a message to Rael.
Steve Z.
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Jul 9, 2012 at 08:06 PM
UPDATE: Rael has reacted in split seconds, the issue has been resolved and I’ve just performed my first sync with Evernote. With such a star dentist, I don’t mind the teething problems :-)
Re access to http://www.bauerapps.com/ I got the same warning from Microsoft’s Security monitor which I generally find quite accurate. I expect that Rael’s website has attracted some malevolent activity from someone who found it via the Evernote competition. Popularity comes at a price.
I would suggest to NOT visit the site until Steve posts an update from Rael on this issue.
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Jul 9, 2012 at 08:44 PM
Rael responded quickly to my inquiry, but he didn’t have anything that I found reassuring relative to the security risk. He said someone else had reported this the other day and that he’d tried it accessing his site using Norton 360, which is what I use, and didn’t get any kind of warning.
Alexander, if you haven’t already done so, perhaps you should send Rael an e-mail saying that you got a similar result with a different security application so he can’t shrug it off so casually. (He suggested I click the ignore button, which I’m NOT going to do.)
Steve Z.
Posted by Franz Grieser
Jul 9, 2012 at 09:22 PM
Hi Stephen.
I bought the Rightnote license through Bitsdujour, too. When installing F-Secure issued a warning. I checked the installer file using 2 other virus scanners that did not find fault with it. In the past, I found McAfee and Norton to cry wolf too often.
Franz
Posted by critStock
Jul 9, 2012 at 09:57 PM
Here’s what Google Security returned when I attempted to go to the RightNote page: “Warning - visiting this web site may harm your computer!”
Google also offered this on its “Diagnostic Page” for the site:
Safe Browsing
Diagnostic page for http://www.bauerapps.com
What is the current listing status for http://www.bauerapps.com?
Site is listed as suspicious - visiting this web site may harm your computer.
What happened when Google visited this site?
Of the 6 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 0 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. The last time Google visited this site was on 2012-07-08, and suspicious content was never found on this site within the past 90 days.
This site was hosted on 1 network(s) including AS21844 (THEPLANET).
Has this site acted as an intermediary resulting in further distribution of malware?
Over the past 90 days, http://www.bauerapps.com did not appear to function as an intermediary for the infection of any sites.
Has this site hosted malware?
No, this site has not hosted malicious software over the past 90 days.
How did this happen?
In some cases, third parties can add malicious code to legitimate sites, which would cause us to show the warning message.
Next steps:
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