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Google Threat to FreeRepublic
8/30/2014 | Wuli

Posted on 08/29/2014 10:19:41 PM PDT by Wuli

Twice in the past 30 minutes, when executing a link to one of the FreeRepublic posts, Firefox sent me a warning page that the "site" I was going to was a malware threat.

In more detail, the notice explained that it gets that threat info from Google, and that FreeRepublic had been identified as a "malware" threat.

Who knows if some troll got p-o'd or if WH trolls are involved in having set up the threat notice at Google.

I don't know what the mods can do.


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KEYWORDS: freerepublic; malware; searchengines
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To: JRandomFreeper

JRandom, am thinking next the upper right corner ‘x’ to disregard or rather cancel is going to be hot soon with what have seen. Any suggestions?


41 posted on 08/29/2014 10:59:43 PM PDT by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: JRandomFreeper

Should have also noted ... Please go Private with you reply or leave me out of it and take it to John, please.


42 posted on 08/29/2014 11:01:11 PM PDT by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: Wuli
Well, I scraped every piece of Firefox off my system months ago, when they shamelessly fired that new hire at the behest of the militant Gay mafia, for the Thought Crime of expressing sympathy for traditional marriage.

Google is dangerously close to becoming what Americans a century ago called a "trust," and what statutes refer to as an illegal monopoly.

43 posted on 08/29/2014 11:01:53 PM PDT by Prospero (Si Deus trucido mihi, ego etiam fides Deus.)
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To: MrShoop
No, i’m running chrome on a mac.

Chrome is a virus.

44 posted on 08/29/2014 11:02:31 PM PDT by itsahoot (Voting for a Progressive RINO is the same as voting for any other Tyrant.)
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To: JRandomFreeper

Internut Esploder, for when the netz needz splodin!
Then there’s Glooble Crud, Fireflog with updates that obliterate your smartcard reader settings...every update.
All communicating with a router attached to the back of a human turtle hybrid hired/sired by the NSA.


45 posted on 08/29/2014 11:03:52 PM PDT by Darksheare (Try my coffee! First one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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To: DB

I got the warning from your first link. I’m on a Google Nexus tablet running Android and their Chrome browser.


46 posted on 08/29/2014 11:07:24 PM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
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To: Darksheare

LOL Darks. This is turning into a tech thread and I’m not a tech.


47 posted on 08/29/2014 11:07:31 PM PDT by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: Darksheare
If you can't do it from lynx from the command line... I don't know what to tell you.

/johnny

48 posted on 08/29/2014 11:08:24 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: itsahoot
I doubt you're doing much better than Chrome.. Unless you are using lynx.
49 posted on 08/29/2014 11:09:28 PM PDT by Wayne07
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To: Prospero

I got the warning; running Safari on a Mac.


50 posted on 08/29/2014 11:09:39 PM PDT by JohnnyP
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To: itsahoot
I very carefully didn't say that.

He seemed proud that he wasn't running a windoze boxen.

I try not to explode more than one bubble a day.

/johnny

51 posted on 08/29/2014 11:10:11 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: JRandomFreeper

Dude, try again...

Those are Google links and it is Google that is generating the warning when you use Google’s search engine to find a particular FreeRepublic thread.

How Google handles what they consider to be an unsafe URL has nothing to do with my OS or browser. Neither my OS or browser provided any warnings about FreeRepublic.com nor did I claim they did. The entire point of my links was that Google thinks particular threads on FreeRepublic.com are unsafe as determined by Google - not my browser and not my OS.

I do have a clue.


52 posted on 08/29/2014 11:10:29 PM PDT by DB
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To: Wuli

Use Firefox. Get No Script. Block Google. No more malware warnings from them. Use Dogpile to search the web.


53 posted on 08/29/2014 11:11:25 PM PDT by WhirlwindAttack (I lost my 80mm dual phased irridum plasma cannon in a tragic hover tank sinking)
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To: JohnnyP

Here’s the link from my history:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3198639/posts


54 posted on 08/29/2014 11:11:29 PM PDT by JohnnyP
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To: CyberAnt

this was not an “antivirus” issue

in Firefox I have “block reported attack sites” turned on

and tonight, twice, attempting to open links to two posts, Firefox sent me to another site from which my browser window contained a large framed message saying that the site I was attempted to link to was a reported “threatening” site

further detailed explained that the information delivering the warning came from Google

after a few attempts to get passed the “warnings”, I clinked on a link on the warning page that said to ignore the warning and proceed to the dangerous site anyway

my concern was never for myself, but that someone had possibly falsely delivered some info to Google, about FreeRepublic, which Google provided to browsers using the “block reported attack sites” feature

then again, it is always possible that somewhere in the thread of the two posts, there was some link to something that was added in a response and THAT link was to some site up to no good, and that is where the warning from Google originated.

just guessing


55 posted on 08/29/2014 11:11:39 PM PDT by Wuli
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To: MrShoop
Bwahahahaha!

Sorry.

See the post above yours.

/johnny

56 posted on 08/29/2014 11:11:48 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: Wuli

Ok, I’ll say it: Are you sure you’re logged in?


57 posted on 08/29/2014 11:12:06 PM PDT by Veggie Todd (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. TJ)
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To: DB

“Apparently someone has posted links/images to threads that are to unsafe URL’s. The actual malware isn’t being hosted by FreeRepublic.com directly.”

I was coming to the same conclusion, and I think another poster has found the post-thread containing within it a link to somewhere else - outside of FRep - that contains the actual “attack site”.


58 posted on 08/29/2014 11:15:27 PM PDT by Wuli
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To: no-to-illegals

“Do it in root! You don’t learn if you don’t break it!”
Sayeth the madman, fingers dancing on his keyboard in the dark, keeping grues and guis entertained.


59 posted on 08/29/2014 11:15:45 PM PDT by Darksheare (Try my coffee! First one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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To: DB
Um... dude...

You don't get that warning from google unless you are using their browser. Chrome or a varient.

So, um... like dude...

Yes, it matters what browser and OS you are using because Google presents differently to each and every one.

You have NO friggin clue what SGML is, or why it matters to the history of HTML.

/johnny

60 posted on 08/29/2014 11:16:04 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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