Chris O. May well be a coincidence. Google says this one is clean, though of course nobody is perfect, including Google. Still, they tend to issue warnings when they don't need to, rather than give malware a clear bill of health.

In any case, you might want to check it out for yourself:

http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=animefreak.tv

I'm glad you got rid of it, it's a nasty one.

Jared L. the site itself may be clean, i never had any problems with it really until i clicked one of the video's that had a advertisment attached to it. it was during the length of that video somewhere about half way through when my computer became under attack, fallowing shortly after the blue screen of death. it could have even been a virus passing through cyberspace. im not exactly sure were it came from, but i do know that it came during that video. the video im talking about is Naruto Ep. 11, the top one with an add attached (saying click to close add).

Chris O. Thanks Jared, that makes it much clearer. I am running Firefox 4 with AdBlock and therefore no ads get delivered to my browser; I'm not seeing what you're seeing but I did check it out anyway. I strongly recommend anyone to take the same or similar precautions. There are many links around the web which help with how to block unwanted ads, but simply using a free ad blocker with Firefox works well enough for most things. Most ads in themselves are irritating but not dangerous; unfortunately, some are used as carriers for other things.

If as seems likely, the virus was delivered by the banner ad, the site itself may have had no control over which advertisers were chosen by the service that delivers them. It's by no means a new trick to deliver a drive-by virus by advertizing, especially if it uses Flash animation.

I responded because I was interested in how a site such as SJ handles this one. If the page is merely a host for an ad which in turn is the delivery system for a trojan, then who is to blame? Is a bad rating for the site a fair one? I guess too that it looks like a good site for anime fans which otherwise would have got a much better rating.

But since nobody else responded, and there are no official rules or guidelines, that didn't get any further. I'd say you were right, to give it a bad rating for hosting a trojan even if the site management were unaware, as seems most likely. And the description you gave is very useful too, which helps a great deal. Some people post things like "this site sux cos it gave me a virus" and that's all anyone ever knows. So thanks for explaining clearly, I know now that I'm probably safe visiting this one because I block ads and have good a/v protection. I get to watch Naruto after all :-)

Jared L. i would also like to say thanks for the information you provided :) its always nice to learn something new :D