Imgur.com blocked by ABE

[AirPhforce]

Any image from the imgur domain is blocked by ABE.

http://i.imgur.com/V8LEZbk.gifv

http://imgur.com/a/XnS2z

Request {GET http://imgur.com/a/XnS2z <<< https://www.reddit.com/ - 6} Filtered by ABE: <Local> Deny

Running Noscript 2.6.9.36, Firefox 40.0.3, ESET 8.0.132.0.

[AirPhforce]

Don't know what changed, but it's working again.

[barbaz]

That's OK, just post back here if it occurs again.

Probably this is what happened to you:

While most of the time we don't notice or catch the "reboot" cycle of the router or simply the "lease expiration" of our dynamically assigned IP from the ISP refreshing the IP with the server; it does happen on occasion in the middle of us doing something. While that happens, your NIC/WNIC will temporarily go into what is known as ApIPa or sometimes seen as "Limited Connectivity" in Windows machines during that time frame, so anytime something is trying to resolve a name (aka DNS contact) it will come back with a non-authoritative source from the cache on your own machine (aka LOCAL) so it will prompt that message. If you wait a little bit, or manually flush your DNS after the "reset" is completed by the router, it will resolve the issue. Often you don't need to do anything, just waiting a bit will fix it.

[GµårÐïåñ]

There was a zero-day attack on the Imgur servers that resulted in malicious JS being injected into their website. So many of the security software are catching it but you might notice aberrant behavior in the meantime while that code is trying to deliver its payload. If ABE is catching something, its for your own good, chances are its attempting a LOCAL access and its been caught and neutralized by ABE. Be patient, I am sure Imgur is getting their shit cleaned up.

[AirPhforce]

There was a zero-day attack on the Imgur servers that resulted in malicious JS being injected into their website. So many of the security software are catching it but you might notice aberrant behavior in the meantime while that code is trying to deliver its payload. If ABE is catching something, its for your own good, chances are its attempting a LOCAL access and its been caught and neutralized by ABE. Be patient, I am sure Imgur is getting their shit cleaned up.

Thanks for the reply. I am patent, I didn't whitelist anything. I did see several other users on the reddits talking about Noscript blocking imgur and whatnot but didn't see anything here, so I made a quick account and posted about it.

I'm thinking the noscript error was some combination of Malware Bytes blocking imgur (https://blog.malwarebytes.org/hacking-2 ... nst-4chan/), possibly my AV also blocking the site, and ABE was just catching whatever either of those programs was doing to let me know the site was blocked since it looks like, at least to me, it was trying to access something locally, which, I think, makes sense if my AV or MWB was trying to tell me it had blocked a web-page.

But I don't know shit about computers or whatever so it's just a guess. Either way, it works now. Thanks for making this add-on, I've been using it for years and this is literally the first mild inconvenience it's ever caused me.

[barbaz]

Malware Bytes blocking imgur

^ Could be this, I thought I once read somewhere that Malwarebytes redirects blocked sites to some special IP address in the 127.0.0.0/8 block...

[GµårÐïåñ]

I'm thinking the noscript error was some combination of Malware Bytes blocking imgur (https://blog.malwarebytes.org/hacking-2 ... nst-4chan/), possibly my AV also blocking the site, and ABE was just catching whatever either of those programs was doing to let me know the site was blocked since it looks like, at least to me, it was trying to access something locally, which, I think, makes sense if my AV or MWB was trying to tell me it had blocked a web-page.

yes, some block by looping back to 127.0.0.1 and that is legitimately being cause by ABE as an attempt to access LOCAL, hence the block. It seems IMGUR worked most of the issue out and MBAM seems to have been letting the links through now, but sporadically they are still blocking which is probably just propagation time.