I’ve noticed that when I enter speedtest.net webpage that I’ve used for couple of years every now and then, Firefox shows recieving data from the domain “-www.fallingfalcon.com”, which has one of both suspicious and malicious blacklists at Virustotal, and according to additional information, the domain seems to provide advertisements:
First the virustotal scan isn’t actually a scan but checking against existing blacklist data. This could be old data and one supposed malicious out of 67, is pretty low and many might say an FP.
I have used speedtest.net for some considerable time and no issues. Just ran it again using my default browser firefox and no issues. I’m in the UK and choose my normal closest Hosting provider, I don’t let it select the Host.
Do you let speedtest.net select the Host or do you do that ?
Actually I block speedtest.net domain at my house because malware byes said malware warning while browsing the site a few months ago. Speedtest.net does have malware sometimes.
I have been using speedtest.net for many years and no issues what so ever.
Since you don’t say what the location or the actual message is there is no real way of investigating.
Personally when using MBAM Premium I disabled its Malicious Website Protection as it alerts on more than malicious sites. Its lists have all sorts of categories lumped into this malicious sites heading.
Slip of the keyboard, go there then, commenting on a sub-link that has been long long gone or taken down.
This was my Rip van Winkel moment, as he apparently also was Dutch.
Thanks for waking me up, friend! Sometimes it is almost that the bits and bytes gets the better of ye ;D
