Security problem using link from MRH Vol. 1 3rd Planit article to www.trainplayer.com
While going through Volume 1 of Model Railroad Hobbyist Magazine to reread the article on 3rd PlanIt I encountered an interesting problem.
At the beginning of the article there is a link to the Train Player website but that link appears to be broken. Google (I have their toolbar) comes up with alternate links to either www.trainplayer.com directly or a search for "Features Premium Layouts pll".
Attempting the first link earns me a visit from Norton with a message for an HTTP Malicious Javascript Encoder 5 and a blocked intrusion attempt. The second link triggers a Google search that finds 2 hits, both trainplayer.com, and flags each as from a site that may harm your computer. If I do a Google search on "trainplayer.com" everything for that website it finds it flags.
Anyone know what's going on?
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Interesting
I'm using McAfee now because it is free from my spouses employer, and when I search for trainplayer,com all of the Google hits are marked as trusted sites.
When I click on the link you posted to trainplayer Google reports it as an attack site, while McAfee Site Advisor says the site has been tested and found to have no security issues.
How odd. When I clicked on
I don't know if anything's
I don't know if anything's changed on the website or not but if I bypass going through Google and get in directly it works fine and Norton shows no damage to my system afterward. I am, however, disappointed that I'd have to apparently pay $99 to get at anything constructed using 3rd PlanIt; plus it looks like Train Player doesn't support it (at least not directly) and there are no samples of .3pi files you can view to determine if the investment would be worth it. I paid less than that for my 3rd PlanIt license upgrade!
MikeM