It has come to my attention via author/editor Charlton Stanley that for some reason, Bitdefender, maker of the popular (and quite good) firewall/anti-virus program Defender Pro has wrongly blacklisted Flowers for Socrates as follows:

This site represents a money loan scam
Money Loan scams are a form of fee fraud where victims are presented with different low-risk funding opportunities that require no credit history or income documents. However, in order to obtain the loan, they have to make a small deposit for different fees. The loan is never delivered and the deposit is stolen. Also, these websites are know to require several confidential information, such as social security numbers, contact details, bank account numbers and so on.

Since this is patent nonsense (as any regular reader of this blog can attest), I am currently working with the helpful tech support team at Bitdefender to resolve the issue.  Just so you know, I’ve checked the site with a whole host of other security services including but not limited to AVG Threat Labs, Google Webtools, Norton/Synamtec, Sucuri and McAfee.

None of these security companies found a single problem with the site.

If you are a user of Defender Pro or user other Bitdefender products, we apologize for the inconvenience. We will get the issue resolved as quickly as possible.

Gene Howington, Editor-in-Chief

P.S. On a personal note, I’d like to apologize for my absence recently and in the near future. Family matters require attention and I’ve had little time for reading the news much less commenting on it (and there has been so much!).  Thank you for reading Flowers for Socrates and I leave you in the more than capable hands of my fellow authors until I can return to regular commentary.