Malicious Site Notice

MOM

I'm taking over the blog today to tell you all about a problem we're having. Recently I updated our Norton anti-virus/computer security program and now certain blogs I read regularly are being blocked as being "malicious". Of course I know these blogs aren't deliberately malicious, but Norton is finding code on them it doesn't like.

The problem first appeared on Skeeter, LC & Ayla's blog, and now Norton is blocking Skeezix and Samantha & Mr. Tigger too. I clicked through on each of my sidebar links and, so far, no one else's page is having the problem.

I've notified the owners of the above blogs about this and in working with Skeeter, LC's & Ayla's Big Thing, we think we narrowed the problem down to this. He had downloaded something from a site called www.widgetserver.com. Norton blocks code from widgetserver as malicious and won't allow your page to open if it finds it. After The Big Thing removed the offending code from his template, his page opens just fine.

I can't be the only cat blogger running the newest Norton program on my computer, but I may be the only one notifying you about the problem. So I'm writing to say, be careful about what you download and don't take anything from www.widgetserver.com. If you took something from them such as a countdown clock, get rid of it and replace it with a safe one from another site. We all work too hard on our blogs, don't want to turn away readers and certainly don't want to risk infecting our computers with worms or viruses.

Norton offers a free scan of your computer and if it finds anything, it tells you how to get rid of it. There is no obligation to buy anything. Go here. It will only run on IE, not another browser such as Firefox.

If I can be of help to any of you, please email me.