Status Update
Google has again marked us as safe. We have added additional security
tools and checks to prevent further occurrences. Please return your security
settings to whatever (or better than) they were previous to this Christmas surprise.
During this event there was never a virus or malware on any of our servers.
The problem was that an ad redirect was changed by someone using a security
hole in the advertising software. It only affected some data on the ad server.
No personal data on any of our servers was compromised.
I personally apologize for any inconveniences that you may have suffered during
this event. We do appreciate your support and we take every precaution to protect
our systems. We know that many of you archive your files in our library and
we take that responsibility very seriously.
However, Mozilla has confirmed a bug in Firefox that essentially means a
website that was once marked bad by Google but is now ok, will still receive
warnings in Firefox. There is a notice from Firefox that you can read here:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=820283
There are directions for how to remove a safe site.
Thank you for your patience!
Rick
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