Malaysia's Internet regulator, a communications elect MCMC, has shut off a Free MalaysiaKini bandit web site, which reproduces news articles as well as commentaries from subscription-only Malaysia Kini. The elect has listed a bandit site as an anti-phishing site as well as shut off it as part of an anti-phishing initiative to strengthen Malaysian Internet users. It says:
Why have we been destined to a http://www.skmm.gov.my/antiphishing website?
The web page you attempted to visit has been identified as a phishing website. A phishing website is a website operated by a antagonistic third party whose sole role is to take your personal information as well as password. The page you attempted to entrance has been shut off by a Malaysian Communications as well as Multimedia Commission (SKMM) after it was identified as a "phishing" web page. SKMM has done this to strengthen Malaysian internet users from descending plant to phishing websites.
The anti-phishing retard does not allow Malaysians any preference of whether to take a personal decision to ensue to a site. Users of Google Chrome as well as Mozilla Firefox browsers mostly get destined to a page warning of a dangers of proceeding to certain sites which might contain antagonistic code. However, they have a choice to continue or to lapse to a prior site they had visited.
In a past two years such "attack page" warnings have additionally occasionally appeared for MalaysiaKini itself as well as Malaysian Insider, since links in some advertisements upon their pages led to sites where antagonistic formula had been reported. Another well-known site additionally suffers which problem. Mahathir's blog additiona! lly list ed as antagonistic conflict site
The communications elect retard appears to be an unconsidered answer to Malaysia Kini's complaints about robbery of a content. However, Malaysia Kini articles reproduced by Free Malaysia Kini have mostly appeared tall upon Google poke results, directing traffic away from a site.
Besides blocking anti-phishing sites, a communications commisison has formerly destined Internet providers (Telekom, Maxis, P1, Digi as well as others) in mid-2011 to place blocks upon filesharing sites such as Pirate Bay as well as Megaupload which has right away been taken down by order of a FBI in a Unites States, which additionally brought criminal charges against a owner. Bail denied: MegaUpload founder's supports frozen
A few pornography sites have additionally been blocked.
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