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How to Remove Your IP Address From Malwarebytes Block List Quickly

PostAlmostAnything.com — Wed, 17 Mar 2021 21:23:28 -07:00

Anyone whose used Malwarebytes Premium for any length of time can tell you that Malwarebytes does an excellent job staying up to date on current threats and protecting your computer from those threats. Unfortunately, that security comes with a downside and that downside is false positives. False positives occur when Malwarebytes misidentifies something as a threat. This happened to me recently. I had rented a new server and when I tried to login via Windows Remote Desktop the action was blocked by Malwarebytes and a trojan warning was displayed. Knowing that the warning was probably the result of a previous tenant abusing that server, I added the IP address to my Allow List and was able to migrate my sites successfully. A little over a week after the migration was finished I was informed by a user that they could not access one of the sites due to a trojan warning from Malwarebytes. This was a surprise to me because I did not realize that the block applied to websites on the server as well and I thought Malwarebytes would be more up to date. I verified the problem by removing the IP address from my Allow List and trying to access the website. My attempt was blocked due to a trojan according to Malwarebytes. My attention then turned to getting that IP address declared safe and removed from the blocklist as soon as possible. To my pleasant surprise, I found a way to get the IP address cleared quickly. I created a post on the Malwarebytes forum which read as follows: "I rented a new VPS on 3/8 and had to add the IP address (45.141.58.191) to my ignore list just to login an start migrating websites to it. Today learned that anyone trying to visit any site at that IP address is still getting blocked by Malwarebytes and receiving a trojan warning. When I logged into it via Windows Remote Desktop the first time I could tell it was a fresh installation of Windows Server 2019 DC, so obviously the trojan warning must be due to the last customer using that IP hosting a trojan. How do I get my IP removed from the Malwarebytes blacklist?" A Malwarebytes staff member replied in less than an hour saying "Hello, thanks for bringing this to our attention. We've reviewed the IP again and have determined it no longer warrants being blocked so we've removed it from our database. Removal should be reflected in the next database update going out in a few hours or so." Right now I am waiting for that update to purge my IP address from their block list. Conclusion Webmasters who find the IP addresses of their new servers blocked by Malwarebytes should post the problem in the official Malwarebytes support forums in the false positives/website blocking section (https://forums.malwarebytes.com/forum/123-website-blocking/). Malwarebytes staff will likely read it and take action if the IP address no longer deserves to be on their block list.
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How to Find You Tube Permalink URLs

VideoLessons — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 06:30:31 -08:00

You Tube videos are some of the easiest to embed. Typically all you need to do is copy and paste the uniform resource locator (URL) from your browser into the video URL text box when creating or editing a post. If you are watching a video as part of a playlist, channel, or while managing your own videos there may be additional characters in the URL that could make the browser copy and paste method ineffective. To make sure you are using the permalink URL always use the URL located below the video description on the upper right hand side of the page. This is clearly identified as "URL" and located directly above what You Tube wants you to use for embedding their videos that is labeled "EMBED". DO NOT USE YOU TUBE'S EMBED CODE! Instead just use the URL and our code will do the rest. This method not only makes the video fit our dimensions, but eliminates many annoying tags and links that You Tube includes with their code. See the area of the image on this page circled in green.
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How to Embed Videos from Funny or Die on No Limit List

VideoLessons — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 09:58:51 -08:00

Funny or Die videos are easy to embed. Just copy and paste the uniform resource locator (URL) from your browser into the video URL text box when creating or editing any No Limit List post. DO NOT USE THE FUNNY OR DIE EMBED CODE! Instead just copy and paste the URL from your browser and our code will do the rest. The URL location is circled in green in the image on this page.
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