Why am I getting warnings from your newsletter and site links?

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Well, AVAST warned me of a TROJAN in you email .

That's NOT what it says here.{?}

My windows live hotmail flags your e-mails as questionable.

Specifically how do I permanently fix this.

I have already clicked on the warning that your site is safe - still get warning.

I received the same warning about Chitika causing browser problems. I had previously used the site with no problems. I just waited about 2 or 3 days and clicked on the site again with no warnings or problems of any kind.

This is somewhat off topic, but I need to add that I don't trust McAfee... no how, no way. A botched installation of a McAfee upgrade resulted in my spending over $300 to have my PC repaired. I went round and round with McAfee about it and they finally just stopped responding.

My point here is that anything (capital ANY THING) that gets so deeply intertwined with your system software that it needs special software and procedures to fully remove it should itself not be trusted because if it (i.e. McAfee) makes a mistake, it's YOUR headache.

I use and have sworn by AVG Anti-virus for years. Having a PC repair business, I'd say 30% to 50% of the problems I see are virus-related. With that said, I've heard many, many people complain about false-positives when using AVG. By default, AVG employs 'Hueristic scanning', which doesn't only scan for particular 'known' threats, but also Hueristic threats, or any code that acts similar to known malicious code like .exe, .dll's etc. You can turn off this feature by unchecking the 'use hueristics' box under e-mail scanning in the advanced settings under 'tools'. I imagine many other anti-virus programs have a similar feature.

Ya, I run the McAfee site advisor too and it seems to be very picky. I had a few false positives on sites like howtogeek.com/forum which I visit daily and where I have nearly 9000 postings. Even on a site of a big German computer mag. So as you said, take it with a grain of salt and use common sense.

I used to have Nortons but it got to the point everything was considered a threat. I switched to Trend and it is somewhat better except they keep disabling 2 of my games I bought from a very reputable site EA. Seems like all of them are flawed.

Since iFrames are a threat only to IE users just switch to a different browser. I use Opera and Avast and i never had a warning relating to Leo, of any kind.
Chitica was flagged because they used to employ tracking cookies - don't konw if they still do it, i've blocked them in my url filter - but his is practically harmless.

I am using Mozilla Thunderbird, and for every newsletter email I have got a warning that it could be a possible fraud - up to this last newsletter where I got no warnings! Even If I trusted Leo the changes in the newsletter removed this irritating warning for me :-)

Interesting Reading with reference to Leo's site being flagged- False/Positive. If a service is employed and that service uses Tracking Cookies
then I would regard that as a serious breach to my privacy. Leo I must congratulate you for taking immediate and positive DECISION to withdraw
the use of IFrame.Incidentally,I use Avast on one of my PC and I have had no problems. Good to be security aware, but end user must also try and learn a little bit beyond the warnings.
Keep-up The Good Work, Leo.

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