Dangerous sites?! Greasemonkey/Unfriendfinder a safety risk?

[Russell Byrd]

Hello,

I haven't been able to use Greasemonkey/Unfriendfinder for a while because my McAfee warns me and stops me from downloading the new script.
I am sent to this page:
https://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/https%3A//www.unfriendfinder.com/unfriend_finder.user.js/-?pip=false&premium=true&client_uid=653568879&client_ver=3.6.1.193&client_type=IEPlugin&suite=true&aff_id=0&locale=sv_se&ui=1&os_ver=5.1.3.0&ref=safesearch

If I go to unfriendfinder.com I also get a warning message from McAfee saying that they have found suspicious things on that page that could be bad for me.

What is all this?
Is Greasemonkey/Unfriendfinder trying to do bad things to us?
If not, why are they not reacting to McAfee's warnings and make necessary changes??

Russell

[LWChris@LyricWiki]

Unfriendfinder isn't available anymore. Quotation from their page:

> The social network asked the removal of the extension because it
> violates its terms.
> Specifically, Unfriend Finder injects unauthorized code into the
> social networks's source code in order to alter the way that the
> webpages are rendered in users browsers
> It adds unauthorized links to users' bookmark sections;
> And posts unauthorized notifications regarding which users have
> "unfriended" the user or "ignored" his or her friend requests.
>
> I cannot enforce this and will cease the developement of this Extension.
> Unfriend Finder has been around for 3 years, and many of you enjoyed
> this, but it cannot go further.
>
> Thank you for your support.

The first paragraph is the also reason why McAfee warned you: code
injection to alter the default behaviour of pages in a manner that users
cannot control.
A problem of UFF, not GM. It seems like in this case, UFF abused the
power of GM scripts to perform unauthorized actions.


Chris