Know this isn’t technically Dev, sorry in advance.

I keep getting outbound malware alerts when I browse global. Today it’s lemmy.today, last week it was another instance etc.

I’m interested in learning more about sec, and while I’ve looked at the JSON logs and tried googling “What does threat id -1 mean” etc., I can’t seem to find anything.

I’m kind of just curious about what, specifically, the threat was and what it was trying to do - but the logs seem pretty blank. As mentioned above, the id is -1 and the name is blank.

Anyone know a good guide, or something, to read up or… better questions to ask?

Thank you for your time and hav a wonderful day. :)

  • @jecht360English
    4•1 year ago

    This is for the Malwarebytes browser plugin, correct? I’m assuming that it is also preventing you from loading the page? Many of those browser plugins simply have a list of “bad sites” or cookies that when seen while browsing will cause the plugin to avoid loading it. When browsing global on Lemmy, it includes the original instance it was on. I would suspect that the instances you’re getting this log entry for are flagged as “bad” sites for some reason.