Uploading your skins at Customize.org is back on!

Didn't realise Custo had had another attack.  I remember them going offline a decade ago or so for a major revamp.  Can't even remember what sort of submission checking was inplace, then OR since.

For those wondering what Customize.org is....it was THE FIRST online community/public skinning site and thus home to many of skinning's pioneers...;)

http://customize.org/browse/latest 

Sweet...just signed up! 

imao.., there is a taco cursor theme? 

Went and visited the sight at the link above. When I saw JC's smx skins up there I thought right away...RIP....then it occurred to me...he's got another nic. I almost reported it. Sorry 'bout that JC.

Yes, before anyone panics....many here were/are members of Custo.org too.

I joined there somewhen about '97, I think...;)

I often wonder why people use different names at different sites, if they just used the same name potential issues like this would not occur.

About got me too. I use the same nick there as I do here. I am still PDJ at some sites. I need to change that.

Anyone know who Mike/Steve is?  

A schizophrenic?

^ pfffftt

I'm of two minds about that, Wiz.

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It would have been okay, JC is a mod there too! Actually, he's the reason I am.

Small world...ain't it.

Actually the name I use at customize is the name I use at other sites too. I do not remember why I chose the name I did for this site but junior is my actual middle name and crooks my last name. I would change it but everyone knows me as JuniorCrooks here now.

Yes karmat and myself are both mods there so feel free to contact us directly if there are any issues and we will do our best to take care of them.

Somebody should get in touch with McAfee about their giving the site a red rating. McAfee tested 204 downloads and found four to be dangerous. A fair number of people use McAfee Site Advisor, and will stay away. If you go to this page, there is a place where the site owners can explain the situation, get retested, and get a green rating. Also, users of the site can comment, which does influence the rating.

http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/customize.org

I would like to know how McAfee conducts their test or determines its rating. I noticed there are only 2 user reviews. The site had some bad uploads of xp themes awhile ago and that is why uploads had been disabled while we had a chance to clean things up. There should be an approval system in place soon if its not already which will help to deal with this.

Perhaps Mcafee did their test during this time of bad xp uploads. I realize the site is still not perfect but we are doing our best with active moderation. I know we still have a problem with spam and I have personally gave suggestions to stop that too.

On a side note to everyone visiting the site never download something with an external link and if anyone finds a submission there with an external download link let me know and I will delete it immediately.

Hm. I used to have an account there.. Can't find it now. Member search gives me everything, just not the ones I search for.

I had also noticed that member search is broke so I will try to deal with that. As far as your account goes let me know your user name if its different then here and I will see what I can do.

Never mind, here it is http://customize.org/c242

I think I will go join the fun there too. As long as they don't try to make me sane that is. lol

so I can Find this again

Don't you ever worry about that Ross. Trying to make you sane would be an impossible task, so you can relax and go join.

Dave--they have an automated system that crawls the web, joins the site if possible, sees how many e-mails the site sends out, checks a few downloads, sees if the site attacks and alters your browser, etc.

Check the "Detailed Analysis" to see the files it considers harmful:

RED

startbarfader3-11.exe

HUD.Vision_by_Jiri_Mahel-v2.2.exe download analysis--

HUD.Vision_by_Jiri_Mahel-v2.0.exe

YELLOW

Dark_Rainmeter.zip

Vista_Ultimate.zip

I noticed that "Generic Trojan" is indicated, which makes me think that it's a false positive; for instance, Norton 2010 antivirus calls the Silica DesktopX widgets dangerous even though they are not. Sometimes it is behaviour of a file, not because it contains a known problem.

In any case, there is a section where the webmaster can make a comment.

Nobody from McAfee comments; that section is for users to make comments. They have a system where if the commenter is "correct" or not, they get rated, and their comments can be "trusted" or not. I'd recommend that the webmaster comments, and some of your users. You can get them to retest it, explain the likelihood of false positives (if that's the case), and get a green rating.

Even WinCustomize had a red rating until someone did something about it.

Which in turn gave Winstep.net a red rating because it links to WinCustomize. Grrr! lol