Google Threat to FreeRepublic

8/30/2014 | Wuli

[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.

[DB]

Um... dude...

Wrong...

You only have to use Google from ANY browser to search for that FreeRepublic thread and it issues the warning.

Why do you have to be such an ass?

[JRandomFreeper]

You think I'm gonna look? Jim gets paid for that.

Someone tell me they see a rattlesnake, I got all kinda responses without having to go over and examine it.

I am trying to help with OS and browser, because it really does matter.

But I can shoot a snake from here.

Wheel back......

/johnny

[Wuli]

no

it was Sam the Sham & Pharaohs, 1965

[but THAT was not the source for “Wuli”]

That was a book on physics titled “The Dancing Wuli Masters”.

[no-to-illegals]

Honest was only kidding about JRandom going to kill me. I’m not a tech. I’m not a tech.

[JRandomFreeper]

Or, as I was told by the man page the other night..... -R for consistency.

Chmod -r

Chown -R

Or vice versa.

But it's always good for rm -r /.

Stick that in your console.

/johnny

[DB]

Jim (the owner of the site) found the problem way back on reply #31...

[Vendome]

LOL!

[Utilizer]

Chrome is a virus.

Speaking as an ex-biker, I learned a bloody long time ago the old saying: "Just 'cause it's chrome, won't bring you home."

What matters is the engine underneath.

(at the risk of this comment being pulled... *grin*) I think you mispelled "mac".

*ducks!* *grin*

[GeronL]

I haven’t run across any rattlesnakes yet, I just hope I have the brains God gave a grasshopper when I hear the rattle.

[Sun]

“F.R.- A threat to tyranny everywhere.”

I get a “this might be unsafe.....” type of message from time to time from Microsoft, I believe, and it’s always a conservative site that I’m trying to visit.

Call me paranoid, but I’m always suspicious of their motives.

[Utilizer]

If you can't do it from lynx from the command line... I don't know what to tell you.

'Ay, what about Dillo then?

[JRandomFreeper]

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.

You only have to use Google from ANY browser to search for that FreeRepublic thread and it issues the warning.

You posted those.

Do you see a common element? I do.

And I don't use google from any browser. Ever.

I'm not being an ass.

I'm being accurate. You are using Google.

You are getting the problem.

Say your OS and your browser if you are having problems and want them fixed.

/johnny

[JRandomFreeper]

ps ax | grep no-to-illegals...

No, certainly not. I wouldn't look up your process number so I could kill -9 it for anything.

You are my friend. Hugs!!! (quick, look up the process number)

/johnny

[elhombrelibre]

Probably Russian hackers trying to silence critics of Putin and his invasion of Ukraine.

[Darksheare]

A cuss word for the ages “RM *!!!”

[Vendome]

Now thzt funknee!!!

[GeronL]

I got the warning from DuckDuckGo too

[JRandomFreeper]

I just stood there and shot at my feet with grandma's .38 loaded with snakeshot.

Thank goodness for steel toed boots.

And kicked and stomped a little. I'm lucky to be alive, obstinate as I am.

/johnny

[no-to-illegals]

but I’m not a tech ... Honest.

[JRandomFreeper]

Dildo is fairly new.

/johnny