Thai Govt' Blocks CNN, Yahoo Finance, Facebook And Other American Sites

[webfact]

The state of Internet in Thailand:

Thai Govt' blocks CNN, Yahoo finance, Facebook, Flickr and other American sites

Thai Immigration website reported as attack site

Thai Immigration website is reported as an attack site by Google and FireFox. Thaivisa has

several times tried to contact with the IT section of the Immigration Bureau, but to no avail.

BANGKOK: -- Internet access in Thailand is not always easy, and can be dangerous as well.

Last week the Bangkok post website was listed as an attack site by Google and Fire Fox. Recently the website of Thailand Immigration Bureau was found being reported as an "attack site".

Of their 1376 pages Google tested on the Thai Immigartion site over the past 90 days, 133 pages resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. The last time Google visited this site was on 2009-12-13, and the last time suspicious content was found on the site was on 2009-12-12.

Malicious software on the Thai Immigration website includes 49 exploits, 40 scripting exploits and 32 Trojans, according to Google and FireFox.

MICT blocking CNN, Facebook, Yahoo, Flickr for some users/ISP's

On another note, The Ministry of Information and Communication Technology is today blocking websites hosted in USA.

Example of blocked sites as of this morning: edition.cnn.com, facebook.com, finance.yahoo.com, flickr.com

MICT is redirecting the blocked traffic to their website http://mict.go.th, and instead showing a portrait of HM the King of Thailand together with well wishes for His Majesty's birthday.

Depending on the ISP some users do not face the reported problems. Discussion here: Internet forum branch

Using proxy servers and trying to circumvent government blocked websites is a criminal offense in Thailand.

-- Thaivisa.com 2009-12-14

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[cpofc]

that explains it! My 90 Reporting is due this week and I visited the site last night just to get the latest and My NOD32 went ballistic, and immediately flashed up a warning. Thankfully NOD, at my request for immediate action. terminated the offending script.

[Turkish]

I have CNN and Facebook no problem. with True

[granuaile]

that explains it! My 90 Reporting is due this week and I visited the site last night just to get the latest and My NOD32 went ballistic, and immediately flashed up a warning. Thankfully NOD, at my request for immediate action. terminated the offending script.

I received this warning last week before going for my visa extension. I still went because I needed the information. I should do a really thorough scan of my system. I thought it was just Google being a bit paranoid.

[bangkokrick]

I have CNN and Facebook no problem. with True

Me too no problems.

Cheers, Rick

[absolutelyBangkok]

No problems over here, maybe the OP wants to check his firewall.

[mikebell]

Have been trying to get Bangkok Post for a week and it was so slow loading I gave up.

[tominbkk]

all working OK for me as well

[webfact]

Follow the link to the Internet Forum in the OP. Others report the same issue.

[Curt1591]

Using true; accessing most everything; speeds are really bouncing though. been bouncing for a couple days. MICT definitely playing their games.

[yatyisam]

I am having some troubles as well, using CAT in Phuket. The big sites are working for me (Yahoo, Google, Facebook, etc) but some of the games that I play are not. It seems that if the address begins with s* that it is being blocked. www.travian.com works, but s6.travian.com does not. www.ikariam.com works, but s8.ikariam.com does not.

Bummer. Guess I will have to do work today instead

[davejonesbkk]

Yep since this morning when I try to open Facebook I get this:

http://w3.mict.go.th/

I'd also like to point out that just a few days ago I went to open Google.com/adsense and got the malware page warning in GOOGLE CHROME!!!

[RegularReader]

I had this problem with Bangkok Post last week and reported it to them - seemed to be fixed shortly after.

To check I ran my virus protector - which came up clean,

Have not had problems with any other sites

[mythBuster]

This is anti virus software blocking the sites. It seems likely that the person getting this messages have messed up himself. hat an immigration site is blocked is understandable. Lots of incompetent IT people working for governments allow wholes the size of Bangkok for malware to penetrate.

But there is nothing wrong with my computers I can access all the so called blocked sites from three different ISP's

[mythBuster]

interesting to put this on a news ticker without checking it. It could have been the Nation they too never check facts.

[gtm2k]

Using ToT and no problems too.

This looks like a software firewall initiated action. Or an april fools prank which is too early to come by !

However ! this post is sure to get hits !

[webfact]

This is anti virus software blocking the sites. It seems likely that the person getting this messages have messed up himself. hat an immigration site is blocked is understandable. Lots of incompetent IT people working for governments allow wholes the size of Bangkok for malware to penetrate.

But there is nothing wrong with my computers I can access all the so called blocked sites from three different ISP's

its reported from different locations /ISP's by members

Myself is getting that message from 3 different computers

[KhunRut]

A month or so back I was getting blocked going to strange random pages. Then i refreshed and it went thru.... Everything seems ok with 3B Broadband.

[DP25]

What the heck are you talking about!? None of these sites are 'blocked by the Thai government'. You should edit the headline and story for wildly inaccurate hysterical information.

"Thai Immigration website is reported as an attack site by Google and FireFox."

Reported as an attack site by Firefox? Since when does Firefox report attack websites? Do you understand the difference between your browser and a search engine reporting an attack site?

[wimpy]

Using TT&T Maxnet Premier. My Yahoo is blocked. Facebook & CNN are working fine.

[GeeWee]

Are they blocking Hotmail ? Because for the last 1,5 week it's difficult to reach hotmail as well as many other websites (website my bank in the Netherlands and so on)

I'm living in Central Pattaya and I use TTNT for my internetconnection.

Anybody has the some problems ?

[A_Traveller]

interesting to put this on a news ticker without checking it. It could have been the Nation they too never check facts.

Given your 3 ISP's comment, I wonder what DNS' are you using on them? Presently I can access cnn, bbc, youtube, however facebook.com is being redirected to w3.mict.go.th on TOT in Bangkok using their DNS service.

Regards

PS By the by I can ping facebook.com 69.63.184.142 fine, but on the same machine I get mict.go.th in browser.

Edited December 14, 2009 by A_Traveller

[Japhrodisiac]

I have this problem occasionally with Google Chrome and sometimes Firefox. This is due to browser level security. Switch browsers and see if you are still blocked.

[MonsieurHulot]

I'm having troubles with some European sites too (no matter which browser I use)

Edited December 14, 2009 by MonsieurHulot

[Stricken]

that explains it! My 90 Reporting is due this week and I visited the site last night just to get the latest and My NOD32 went ballistic, and immediately flashed up a warning. Thankfully NOD, at my request for immediate action. terminated the offending script.

Yep me also, no problemos

[NanLaew]

A non-event if ever I saw one!

Whatever possesses people to post threads on the well-known vagaries of the internet here is beyond me.

[Brunus]

I am using facebook from Pattaya. No problem so far

[TAWP]

Yep since this morning when I try to open Facebook I get this:

http://w3.mict.go.th/

I'd also like to point out that just a few days ago I went to open Google.com/adsense and got the malware page warning in GOOGLE CHROME!!!

Funny note, http://w3.mict.go.th/ times out for me if i try to access it...TOT (from work).

[TAWP]

A non-event if ever I saw one!

Whatever possesses people to post threads on the well-known vagaries of the internet here is beyond me.

I disagree. That a government website is crawling with trojans and script-exploits surely SHOULD be big news.

[GmB]

interesting to put this on a news ticker without checking it. It could have been the Nation they too never check facts.

Given your 3 ISP's comment, I wonder what DNS' are you using on them? Presently I can access cnn, bbc, youtube, however facebook.com is being redirected to w3.mict.go.th on TOT in Bangkok using their DNS service.

Regards

I am running my own DNS server and facing the very same problem.