OT: Panda's Thumb issues

[czeba...@gmail.com]

I've been trying to check out the Thumb recently but I'm getting security warnings regarding security certification.
Does anyone know what's going on there?

gregwrld

[jillery]

FWIW I have no problem from either Chrome or Edge.

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[*Hemidactylus*]

What browser are you using? Safari, Firefox Focus, and Adblock landed me
there OK on iphone with no woes.

These scans come up clean for malware:

https://www.virustotal.com/en/url/0c4108a7124f5f83c8e8f347492ab35ca06eef667eb2ea7d830dd0ff24fde0c6/analysis/1514601172/

https://sitecheck.sucuri.net/results/pandasthumb.org

The latter is usually really anal retentive and flags the slightest
infraction.

Here’s explanation from Microsoft for various errors:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/17430/windows-internet-explorer-certificate-errors-faq

[*Hemidactylus*]

*Hemidactylus* <ecph...@allspamis.invalid> wrote:
> <czeba...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I've been trying to check out the Thumb recently but I'm getting security
>> warnings regarding security certification.
>> Does anyone know what's going on there?
>>
>> gregwrld
>>
> What browser are you using? Safari, Firefox Focus, and Adblock landed me
> there OK on iphone with no woes.
>
> These scans come up clean for malware:
>
> https://www.virustotal.com/en/url/0c4108a7124f5f83c8e8f347492ab35ca06eef667eb2ea7d830dd0ff24fde0c6/analysis/1514601172/
>

Actually that was for a whois site. This is a scan for pandasthumb.org

https://www.virustotal.com/en/url/2a3443909edb722bdfeff237c29b6d2c34a3814b87f39bf33717d2d588bb3fc9/analysis/1514602768/

[czeba...@gmail.com]

The warning described the certificate as weak and possibly phoney. I have the option to proceed and now I will. I wanted to make sure no one had had heard of any outstanding issues.
I appreciate the guidance from y'all, many thanks!
By the way, I'm using an android device. It's clean and I want to keep it that way...

gregwrld

[*Hemidactylus*]

As a precaution I prescan uncertain and novel sites:

https://sitecheck.sucuri.net- prone to false positives

https://www.virustotal.com/en/#url -comprehensive

http://csi.websense.com - limited to 5 scans per some time period

[Robert Carnegie]

Accepting a weak certificate means that a fake or infected
version of "Panda's Thumb" could pass itself off as the real one.
Weak cryptography also means that their content and your
submissions can be viewed or altered by an intermediate party.

Perhaps your network provider is trying the gimmick of tapping
web sites with advertisements and inserting their own advertisements
instead. Again. After all. "net neutrality" is dead.

[czeba...@gmail.com]

Thanks again, everyone for the helpful advice and information. I'm too distracted by the wife's health issues to submit much these days but I still enjoy lurking...

gregwrld

[jillery]

On Sun, 31 Dec 2017 17:06:00 -0800 (PST), czeba...@gmail.com wrote:

>Thanks again, everyone for the helpful advice and information. I'm too distracted by the wife's health issues to submit much these days but I still enjoy lurking...
>
>gregwrld

For the new year, I hope you find happiness everywhere you look for
it.