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Google Chrome blocks access to PLOS-ONE.

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And here is the reason given:

http://safebrowsing.clients.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnost...

"5 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent."

It's not only Chrome, Firefox blocks it too: "This web page at www.plosone.org has been reported as an attack page and has been blocked based on your security preferences." Still works on Safari and IE.

That's true. This is really weird. I wonder what kind of malicious code did they find there.

Chrome & FF use the same safebrowsing API I think.

Safari version 6.0.2 (8536.26.17) is blocking it now as well.

Does anybody know what's going on with PlosOne? How comes nobody is saying anything about this? A lot of research in my field is published on PlosOne, I suspect a lot of people are now stuck with their job.

It's Christmas; whatever is going on is temporary and will likely be resolved before you wake up tomorrow.

Looks like a lot of sites were hacked. Clicking through the safebrowsing link above reveals ~1600 other domains.

I'm seeing it on my Windows 7 device with Firefox (although I'm too lazy to try Chrome). It works fine with IE and on my Mac with Firefox. My guess this is a transient problem. Something has gone wrong with PlosOne site and I suggest we all keep trying until it's resolved. Has anyone notified PlosOne? I'll go ahead and send a message to make sure they're on it.

I was reviewing a paper, and cannot submit the review due to this. I have e-mailed their main webpage with a link to the warning, etc.

Still blocked by Firefox on my Ubuntu box. I found out when I was testing reference urls that are in a blog post I was preparing. Annoying, I guess I'll have to wait a couple of days until it's sorted out.

Have you tried turning it off and on again?

The site loaded just fine for me in Chrome on Windows, but I've restarted my computer once today already.

I am puzzled by the admins decision to remove this from frontpage.

I (non-admin) flagged this because the headline is alarmist and I think stories about transient outages, hackings, accidental de-indexing etc. are not HN-worthy. As someone else said, give it a day or two and then start to worry about it.

Latest version for Android (on a Nexus 7) lets it load just fine. Maybe it's already resolved, or maybe that version does things differently?

I just visited in Chromium without a problem.

It's perhaps some windows specific malware, and this would also explain why it's not blocked in andorid and in some safaris.

Blocked in ubuntu chromium, cannot be os specific

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