Uploading your skins at Customize.org is back on!
Sunday, July 17, 2011 by karmat | Discussion: Life, the Universe and Everything
Customize.org http://customize.org/browse/latest had experienced a run of malware and spam a couple of months ago (just like dA) and to deal with it, they installed a virus scanner and blocked uploads for awhile so that the moderators could clean up the site.
The scanner is not perfect, but they are trying to find a better solution - so you still have to be careful in what you download. For some reason, it reads all windowblinds as infected, but my contact there is working to correct that.
But the best news is, that the block has been turned off and the site is open again to upload all your skins!
If you see any problems there with spam or malware, give me a shout at http://customize.org/karmat or https://www.wincustomize.com/users/2687090/karmat and I'll look into it. The site allows moderators alot more freedom to deal with issues than dA does. Now get uploading!
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Reply #23 Tuesday, July 19, 2011 10:52 AM
Dave--they have an automated system that crawls the web, joins the site if possible, sees how many e-mails the site sends out, checks a few downloads, sees if the site attacks and alters your browser, etc.
Check the "Detailed Analysis" to see the files it considers harmful:
RED
startbarfader3-11.exe
HUD.Vision_by_Jiri_Mahel-v2.2.exe download analysis--
HUD.Vision_by_Jiri_Mahel-v2.0.exe
YELLOW
Dark_Rainmeter.zip
Vista_Ultimate.zip
I noticed that "Generic Trojan" is indicated, which makes me think that it's a false positive; for instance, Norton 2010 antivirus calls the Silica DesktopX widgets dangerous even though they are not. Sometimes it is behaviour of a file, not because it contains a known problem.
In any case, there is a section where the webmaster can make a comment.
Nobody from McAfee comments; that section is for users to make comments. They have a system where if the commenter is "correct" or not, they get rated, and their comments can be "trusted" or not. I'd recommend that the webmaster comments, and some of your users. You can get them to retest it, explain the likelihood of false positives (if that's the case), and get a green rating.
Even WinCustomize had a red rating until someone did something about it.
Reply #24 Tuesday, July 19, 2011 11:24 AM
Which in turn gave Winstep.net a red rating because it links to WinCustomize. Grrr! lol
Reply #26 Tuesday, July 19, 2011 4:22 PM
This is off topic (and I promise not to tell anyone), but it looks like a Canadian Conspiracy to take over customize.org. Is there any truth in that?
Reply #28 Wednesday, July 20, 2011 10:28 PM
Don't look now but the R.C.M.S am comin'.
Royal Canadian Mounted Skinners 
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Reply #21 Tuesday, July 19, 2011 7:12 AM
so I can Find this again