Reported Unwanted Software Page! This web page at kat.cr has been reported to contain unwanted software and has been blocked based on your security preferences. Unwanted software pages try to install software that can be deceptive and affect your system in unexpected ways.

Security Issue: Update your Flash Player Version 19.0.0.226
https://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/distribution3.html Note: Windows users must download the “Internet Explorer” and “Plugin-based browsers” installers.

Note: Edge on Win10 does not use ActiveX version but its own Flash.

See if there are updates for your graphics drivers https://support.mozilla.org/kb/upgrade-graphics-drivers-use-hardware-acceleration

The server at http://kickass.to/ is responding with a redirect:

HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently => http://kat.cr/

So that's why the URL changes.

And there is a little "Ignore" link at the lower right of the warning page for those who dare to proceed.

jscher2000 said

The server at http://kickass.to/ is responding with a redirect: HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently => http://kat.cr/ So that's why the URL changes. And there is a little "Ignore" link at the lower right of the warning page for those who dare to proceed.

You misunderstand. It does not redirect. I literally cannot enter the URL. I type it, I mash enter, and goes back to the URL of the page I was already on. There is no warning page, not even when I do it from a new tab; it simply makes no attempt to connect to the site. The same thing happens when I try to enter kat.cr. This literally just started happening too. A couple days ago it worked fine. It looks as if Mozilla has blacklisted URLs that now cannot be entered. I wanted this feature disabled; if I enter the URL, then I want to go there.

FredMcD said

Reported Unwanted Software Page! This web page at kat.cr has been reported to contain unwanted software and has been blocked based on your security preferences. Unwanted software pages try to install software that can be deceptive and affect your system in unexpected ways.

I don't know about ads. I use adblockplus so I won't get hit with ads that automatically download stuff (which I've had happen before), but if I'm consciously downloading it, I want it. 99.9% of the time, I'm not fooled, and the other 0.01% of the time, I want the freedom to be fooled. No firewall has ever protected me from something bad; it blocks the downloading of the thing I that I want (which I find a way around eventually and nothing bad happens), but it lets the 0.01% of things that have fooled me go right on through.

It's like putting metal detectors at the airport, and while the agents are menacing passengers over jewelry, piercings, belts, watches and anything else that sets those things off, a terrorist walks through with a plastic knife shoved up where the sun don't shine. Do we need plastic detectors now? What else is plastic that isn't dangerous? A whole mess of stuff. So while passengers are being hassled over containers to things like deodorant, shampoo, medicine, and so on, a terrorist is walking through with a rope shoved up where the sun don't shine. Do we need fibre detectors now?!?! How about we cut the security stuff. That's what I want. I want to disable the security before the day comes that we can't do anything, because it only makes life annoying, and does nothing to stop the bad guys. The only thing that stops bad guys is experience and intuition. An experienced guard can keep an eye out and intervene when something feels wrong; in the same way, I can stop bad stuff from getting on my computer because I have been to several rodeos before now. I only accept umbrella security measures (I guess that's the right term) where it cannot possibly interfere with anything that I am doing (such as adblocking), and I have been around the web enough to know when someone is lying about a particular file I am deciding whether to download. I don't need Firefox to decide for me.

Please spare me the attempts to show me the error of my ways, and I repeat, if I am to be fooled into downloading something bad, I want the freedom to be fooled; if you would like to help, and I would most appreciate it, I would like to know how to disable this feature in Firefox.

FredMcD said

Security Issue: Update your Flash Player Version 19.0.0.226
https://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/distribution3.html Note: Windows users must download the “Internet Explorer” and “Plugin-based browsers” installers. Note: Edge on Win10 does not use ActiveX version but its own Flash. See if there are updates for your graphics drivers https://support.mozilla.org/kb/upgrade-graphics-drivers-use-hardware-acceleration

Non up to date graphics driver = Firefox ignoring URLs that I type???? I think you may have solved someone else's problem in the wrong thread. I may update flash, but I don't think Firefox is refusing to even try connecting to a URL over my version of Adobe Flash.

hello Daryl95,

Can you try disabling the inbuilt Phishing protection.

Type into the Address bar: about:preferences#security

Uncheck the boxes under "General"

Try and keep us updated.

Daryl95 said

I type it, I mash enter, and goes back to the URL of the page I was already on. There is no warning page, not even when I do it from a new tab; it simply makes no attempt to connect to the site. The same thing happens when I try to enter kat.cr.

Have you disabled error pages? You can check here:

(1) In a new tab, type or paste about:config in the address bar and press Enter/Return. Click the button promising to be careful.

(2) In the search box above the list, type or paste XUL and pause while the list is filtered

(3) If the browser.xul.error_pages.enabled preference is bolded and "user set" to false, double-click it to restore the default value of true

nowiz said

hello Daryl95, Can you try disabling the inbuilt Phishing protection. Type into the Address bar: about:preferences#security Uncheck the boxes under "General" Try and keep us updated.

Disabling "block reported attack sites" works. The phishing one doesn't, but I'm pretty good at not finding these kinds of sites, so I turned them both off. Now it goes to kickass.to/kat.cr like it should.

jscher2000 said

Daryl95 said

I type it, I mash enter, and goes back to the URL of the page I was already on. There is no warning page, not even when I do it from a new tab; it simply makes no attempt to connect to the site. The same thing happens when I try to enter kat.cr.

Have you disabled error pages? You can check here:

(1) In a new tab, type or paste about:config in the address bar and press Enter/Return. Click the button promising to be careful.

(2) In the search box above the list, type or paste XUL and pause while the list is filtered

(3) If the browser.xul.error_pages.enabled preference is bolded and "user set" to false, double-click it to restore the default value of true

This is already set to true. I don't know why it ignores the setting, but it does.

Thank y'all for the help. :)

Daryl95 said

I'm pretty good at not finding these kinds of sites, so I turned them both off.

We don't go looking for those sites, they go looking for us. A bad re-direct or mal-ware can land you there before you know it.

Leave the protection on, but turn it off for your site.