So ya, my antivirus programmes are telling me EP is a suspicious site and recommended I don't visit it. It's saying there is a good probability I'll be subjected to "higher than average amount of malicious links and payloads." My adblocker and script blocker are probably keeping me from seeing it, but apparently there are ads here now? My guess is that one or more of the ads is connected to a shady third-party site. Anyway, just letting you know.
Albeit Google Safesearch Diagnostics says the top-level site everypony.com is safe. Only other scripting I found was yahooapis, googleapis and googleanylytics... although my adblocker doesn't like a script and a stylesheet on this site with the term "smartbanner" in the url. I'm assuming it's associated with the aformentioned ads. Food for thought.
Could you tell me what AV program you are using? There is a good chance it is something with the new advert setup -- the new setup shows a different ad on page load, so you might just be given a warning when this sort of behavior is detected. Also, smartbanner is part of the forum's Tapatalk functionality. It's a script that throws the little banner that tells you about Tapatalk when you view the site on a mobile device.
By the sound of it he is using one of four either avg, mcaffe, norton or avast! try sending a site report.
I use Webroot. I wasn't sure about the smartbanner thing, as it was part of an everypony url. Evidently my adblock thinks that it's some sort of ad.
We have an adbanner that cycles through 3 ads; one for Pony Plushies, one for the Dating Website, and one for Donations; if it didn't freak out with Pony Plushies on there, then it was likely the Dating Site or the Donation page.
I wouldn't really know, I've never seen any ads on this site. Didn't even know about them til someone mentioned it in the GCT.
Well there isn't anything inherently malicious specifically on here, I would just whitelist EP so you stop getting those alerts. The domains that are linked in the ads can't do anything to you if you don't click them (they're just hyperlinked images). They all check out to be clean on http://virustotal.com as well so I wouldn't really think much of this right now.
Top level site is already whitelisted, only reason I got the warning twice is because I visited EP on my new laptop, with a fresh AV install, so it wasn't familiar with my preferences. Anywho, didn't say the site was suspicious, just letting you guys know that it popped up. Could definitely discourage new users from joining if they see a similar warning ya know?
Which is why I posted what I did -- so if others search for or have this sort of problem they can see for themselves it's a false positive or strict AV monitoring. Though the rule still goes, use your best judgement.
