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.
Thanks - i was reaching the same conclusion without the facts. (also, i was beginning to remember similar circumstances once before, a long time before this)
“Oops? What do you mean oops?”
*things you don’t want to hear from the tech crew..
but Darks it has worked so perfectly. John will get me if I break it. I’ll use your excuse. I was not there, it is not my fault.
apparently from what others have found
it all comes from something found inside this thread
“WH Responds to Petition to Demand Release of Marine Held in Mexico”
whoami returns true for root.
uname -a just makes it worse. Does it have to list every single fork?
/johnny
JRandom, mine was from google and am not using google. Honest.
In my case, it is best to deny involvement immediately upon hearing about an issue.
Which reminds me, I didn’t put my standard denial out there yet.
Not my fault.
(And I have seen something similar happen awhile ago, but don’t recall the particulars which are the important part.)
Thanks for the update. Hope he’s ok.
I'll bet your browser is google infected.
/johnny
wait a second ... could I have been spoofed?
I’ll stay away from the thread. But who posted the offending graphic??
BTW, Jim got the issue fixed as he stated in #31. It was an embedded image link referencing a site Google thinks is unsafe. Not an OS issue, not a browser issue. It was entirely based on Google scanning the specific FreeRepublic.com thread and finding something they believe is unsafe and then flagging it. Any URL lookup for that thread via a Google service and/or application would then issue the warning.
Kill -9.....
/johnny
“I just added an r switch to the command and now it’s gone mad!”
7 and splodin
Pee wee Herman...
It couldn't have been.
It must have been google.
/johnny
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