webfact Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 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 [newsfooter][/newsfooter] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cpofc Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turkish Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 I have CNN and Facebook no problem. with True Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
granuaile Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bangkokrick Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 I have CNN and Facebook no problem. with True Me too no problems. Cheers, Rick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
absolutelyBangkok Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 No problems over here, maybe the OP wants to check his firewall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikebell Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 Have been trying to get Bangkok Post for a week and it was so slow loading I gave up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tominbkk Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 all working OK for me as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
webfact Posted December 14, 2009 Author Share Posted December 14, 2009 Follow the link to the Internet Forum in the OP. Others report the same issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt1591 Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 Using true; accessing most everything; speeds are really bouncing though. been bouncing for a couple days. MICT definitely playing their games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yatyisam Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davejonesbkk Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 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!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RegularReader Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mythBuster Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mythBuster Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 interesting to put this on a news ticker without checking it. It could have been the Nation they too never check facts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gtm2k Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 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 ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
webfact Posted December 14, 2009 Author Share Posted December 14, 2009 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KhunRut Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DP25 Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wimpy Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 Using TT&T Maxnet Premier. My Yahoo is blocked. Facebook & CNN are working fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeeWee Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 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 ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A_Traveller Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 (edited) 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Japhrodisiac Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MonsieurHulot Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 (edited) I'm having troubles with some European sites too (no matter which browser I use) Edited December 14, 2009 by MonsieurHulot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stricken Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NanLaew Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brunus Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 I am using facebook from Pattaya. No problem so far Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TAWP Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 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). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TAWP Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GmB Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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