Re: Virus on bugs.debian.org

Laura Arjona Reina <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.www
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Sebastian

El 17/10/16 a las 12:57, Sebastian Nielsen escribió:
> Virus on bugs.debian.org:
>
> https://i.imgur.com/Emx496w.png
>
>
>
> Anyone should look into that immediately.

What you show in the screenshot linked is a warning from Microsoft 
SmartScreen Filter.

I've reproduced the problem in a Windows machine with Internet Explorer 
and Microsoft Edge (if SmartScreen is enabled). I've reviewed the 
SmartScreen FAQ [1] and this is what I've learnt:

[1] FAQ: https://feedback.smartscreen.microsoft.com/smartscreenfaq.aspx

* SmartScreen can report sites as "unsafe", if they contain links to 
malicious software. Maybe somebody reported our BTS as unsafe because 
they found spam in a bug report, and Microsoft has tagged the whole BTS 
as "potentially unsafe".

* However, I see no such links to malicious sites or spam in the bug 
report that you sent to us (#780392), so I assume it's a false positive 
of SmartScreen.
I've just reported the site as "safe" to Microsoft. This can be done in 
the same screen where the red warning is shown, as explained in the FAQ: 
Q: "One of the sites I visit is being flagged by SmartScreen Filter, but 
it's not an unsafe website. What can I do?".

* You can also include bugs.debian.org in the list of safe websites for 
SmartScreen (more details in the FAQ, Q: "Can I customize a list of 
trusted sites for SmartScreen Filter in Internet Explorer?")

* For the Debian side, in each bug report webpage there is a link at the 
end to "Send a report that this bug log contains spam". I encourage you 
to use that link to report spam if you find it in the BTS, but as I 
noted above, this issue looks like a false positive of SmartScreen, not 
a problem in the Debian bug tracking system.

Thanks in any case for caring!

Best regards
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