[moovova]

You forgot to mention the auto-notify message Google sends to the NSA when you attempt to visit said hate sites.

Oh...you didn’t know that?

:-)

[jpsb]

Using Chrome is not, IMHO, a good idea. What wrong with Firefox or Opera?

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Neither Chrome nor the latest Chromium build show any malware warning for FreeRepublic. I do get a malware warning for secretsofthefed.com, a site I haven't heard of before.

Here's the Google Safe Browsing report for the secretsofthefed.com site, giving the reasons for the malware report. At the bottom are steps the site owner can take to request a review of the site after the problems are fixed.

[George from New England]

Get ‘Google-free’ browsing, get Chromium ...

http://chromium.woolyss.com

[TexasRepublic]

I have overlooked something - what is ‘secretsofthefed.com’ and what does that site have to do with FreeRepublic?

I am running FireFox 30.0 on Linux Mint version 16 “Mate” (32-bit) and have never encountered any problems.

[spel_grammer_an_punct_polise]

Chrome? A Google product? Wow! You do know that Google is a communist company, do you not?

[yuleeyahoo]

I use Opera, no problemo.

[fedupjohn]

I use Chrome and didn’t have any problems this morning on my desktop.
But I don’t have that website bookmarked.

[Cold Heat]

Laz.....just a suggestion when you use chrome. (I don’t use it much)

Chrome has browser extensions that get loaded, often without your input like “safe price” and other crud. In that way they are no different then IE.

Take a look.

While you are there, take a look at your basic browser setting as well.

[Marty]

I’m running Chrome on a MacBook Pro and am having no issues with it. Works just fine.

[cynwoody]

No problem here. Running on a Mac with no AV installed.

[cynwoody]

http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=http://www.secretsofthefed.com/&hl=en

[capt. norm]

Chrome, if you don't watch it close, will run forever in the background, stealing cycles like mad.

Take a gander at what's using what on your task manager every now and then.

[John Robinson]

Thanks for the heads up. Sure enough, using Chrome to visit the “secrets” site brings up the warning. Couldn’t find a warning on the FR.com domain after viewing all 5 articles attributed to that site via source URL.

It might have something to do with embedded links. If so, most likely hot linked images. I’d be surprised and dismayed to find actual malware being served up by FR, even through random hot linked images.

Only reports I’ve ever seen of malware on the FR domain have been from people that were already infected by malware modifying pages client-side (inserting ads, likely pulling down even more malware.)