Why does my school internet hate the Escapist?

[Plurralbles]

When I go to this site it says something about going here, "might harm my computer". I'm pretty sure I heard way back in the past that this site does do soemthing that might put up a red flag but I can't remember what it was. This site is obviously technologically harmless(though our social lives safety is in doubt)

Anyone else ever see this screen? What sites does it do it on? just curious if anyone has seen it or not. Something wrong with my computer?

EDIT:Oh crap... you guys underestimate my age. I'm 20. I'm in college. It didnt' do this at home but started up once I got here.

 

[Quiet Stranger]

No, I have not (then again when I was in school I didn't know about the escapist) but i think one time when I tried to go to the Gorillaz website my computer said that it was harmful to my computer....fucking bollocks that is

 

[Timotei]

I think that's more or less a problem with Chrome than anything. I've been having the same problem as well.

Praise Haruhi for Firefox.

 

[Death God]

My school banned youtube, any manga site, ect. So basically anything fun or creatvie is block. So is downloading.

 

[BlumiereBleck]

My school has banned it too :\ and all chat sites

 

[Blemontea]

Thankfully i think my school doesnt know about the escapist... in fact i think im the only one within several square miles that hangs out here... so im pretty sure it going to be awhile before they lock it down like everything else good on the web

Edit: i was looking for this thead today to rub in the fact i managed to not only log in but log in change my password and read other theads... but i couldnt find it so i just started reading other theads. you win this round BUT I SHALL RETURN!

 

[CpnBeef]

I hate to point out to all you....children??

School filters are supposed to block out the non-educational/good stuff.

I always got around it by using my laptop to bypass the security setting...wait, wha?

 

[Wardnath]

...school internet...

Well, there's your problem.

Schools have a habit of doing that, don't take it personally.

 

[Hashime]

My school banned youtube, any manga site, ect. So basically anything fun or creatvie is block. So is downloading.

ultrasurf, it works

 

[teqrevisited]

When I was in school you used to be able to turn the filter off by spamming F5. That was the best they could come up with. They fixed it later but I just brought Firefox in on a usb stick.

 

[Ironwampa]

that's nothing my school's internet has blocked websites for possessing too much content from foreign cultures and blocks 4chan, sometimes.

 

[voetballeeuw]

Haha, do you have 4chan open?

OT: I think it's just the school website, almost everything "non-educational" is banned.

 

[Plurralbles]

Haha, do you have 4chan open?

OT: I think it's just the school website, almost everything "non-educational" is banned.

It's a college. Everything isn't banned. Just chrome takes offense to this site for some reason.

 

[kwagamon]

Sometimes my computer does it on any website. I think it may be virus-related because it only tends to happen when I haven't scanned in a while.

By the way, you have excellent tastes in websites if that screenshot is anything to go by.

 

[Plurralbles]

Sometimes my computer does it on any website. I think it may be virus-related because it only tends to happen when I haven't scanned in a while.

By the way, you have excellent tastes in websites if that screenshot is anything to go by.

I'll back up my most important stuff and then freshinstall windows 7 onto my machine when i can go without using the computer for a day or so. not because it's hard, but it is very time consuming. Dang it... Webroot and Comodo failed me! I think I'll try Avast and be more careful with what i"m doing. Good thing I got the win7 for free after buying my computer but just haven't used it yet. This computer could use the reset and update anyway.

yea, I was just showing a friend the comics and checking if 4chan was going to complain-it didn't. Porn sites don't either. It's really weird that this is the only site.

 

[Naheal]

I think that's more or less a problem with Chrome than anything. I've been having the same problem as well.

Praise Haruhi for Firefox.

I have no issue and I use Chrome.

 

[Sleekgiant]

Its a Chrome issue people, many others are getting this same message, use Firefox.

 

[Kuchinawa212]

My chrome works just a-ok. But I admit it has bugged out once or twice on me

 

[narutorules44]

what is this school you speak of?{dude schools block all non educational stuff}