A trusted user has informed us that Avast Anti-Virus is warning that .Win is infected with a phishing URL.
It does not seem to me to be the case, but still it is good to be watchful.
Be careful. The mods here nor I have control over the code that is used for these sites. Additionally, and unrelated to this, I would recommend that whatever e-mail address you use for this reveal no personal information, that it not be used for anything that is linked to your personal identity, and that you use no password here that you use for another site that is connected to your real life identity.
Unless proven otherwise I'd assume it's a malicious mass reporting or someone at Avast doesn't like .win.
Avast appears to be pretty SJW: https://foundation.avast.com/index
Edit: Or giving them the benefit of a doubt some algorithm doesn't like that authentication.win interacts with all the win domains and thinks it's malicious. Although considering the above foundation that benefit is somewhat small.
Edit2: They also have a history of flagging alt-tech, e.g. archive.today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-YK2T6e9lw
Funny, when clicking on that I got this message:
Ah yes, ad networks: the "good" kind of phising. Remember kids: it's not bad when Google or Facebook do it! Your data is safe with them!
It could be Avast being typically woke and trying to scare people off.
Could it just be one of the recent spam bots that were posting links?
Based on some screenshots over at T_D (e.g. https://i.maga.host/1E4mEgK.png) I'd say they probably don't like the whole interaction between authentication and other win sites. It might look like auth is trying trick or intercept people according to Avast's shitty algorithm
You know, the usual algorithm problems that just happen to target people with the "wrong" opinions.
Email address? I was never asked for one.
For now, we're relying on the good folks of T_D. I think that certainly is less of a worry than something like hacking.
Since we're not advocating for any illegal activity, we don't have to worry much about that.
Does .win have a canary?
I do not think there is a warrant canary statement for .win at present; maybe they can't do one because the site's already gagged. Would be a good question to ask on T_D, just getting a 'can't comment' would be enough of an answer.
There was talk that if you can login with incorrect credentials, then the authentication is compromised/disabled, which means .win has been re-directed by a hostile actor-- the reasoning being that they have control over their authentication, and if that is not active, a bad actor would just let everyone in.
Not sure if the reasoning is still solid, but that's what the theory was the last time this kind of scare happened. Assuming things will get worse is probably warranted. You have to assume that alt-tech will be compromised at some point, so the 'private' conversations you're having will be read by 'anti-fascist' lefty hackers (or even government agents) at some point.
Avast is spyware pretending to be antivirus. Uninstall that shit.
What antivirus would you recommend in its place and where can I learn more about it being spyware?
So would this be related to why I can't access this site from my pc as of today ish but can on mobile?
Possibly all those spam posts full of bit.ly links haven't helped the place look good in the heuristics