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Google is adding "This site may harm your computer." to FR search results.
Example search ^ | 9/29/15

Posted on 09/29/2015 12:35:18 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows

Obviously it's BS, but IMO it means that someone reported us falsely in an attempt to drive traffic away. Anything we can do about it?


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KEYWORDS: freerepublic; google; internet
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To: BubbaJunebug

this has been going on for days.


21 posted on 09/29/2015 12:46:23 PM PDT by CGASMIA68
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To: BluesDuke

That would explain a lot. Thanks!


22 posted on 09/29/2015 12:46:59 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (My music: http://hopalongginsberg.com/ | Facebook: Hopalong Ginsberg | Instagram: hopalonginsberg)
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To: ColdOne

thailand?


23 posted on 09/29/2015 12:47:01 PM PDT by ichabod1 (Spriiingtime for islam, and tyranny. Winter for US and frieeends. . .)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

Please see #20 - I may be wrong in attributing this to malice.


24 posted on 09/29/2015 12:47:42 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (My music: http://hopalongginsberg.com/ | Facebook: Hopalong Ginsberg | Instagram: hopalonginsberg)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Some history::
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3341760/posts


25 posted on 09/29/2015 12:47:57 PM PDT by CGASMIA68
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To: Slings and Arrows

Need to understand _why_ it’s happening before imputing malace.

Not all Google links to FR are marked that way. Since FR pages frequently have links to other sites, some of those links may have or route to suspicious code. (I remember opening a FR page at work, and the IT person racing into my office terrified of something horrible happening - there were just enough off-site links/references that it triggered a “possible malicious website” alarm.)

Need Jim et al to follow Google’s links for resolving the issue a la “nope, nothing bad happening here, just lots of links & references to lots of other sites of varying repute.” It’s an automated system; false positives do happen.


26 posted on 09/29/2015 12:47:59 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (The world map will be quite different come 20 January 2017.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Just for the halibut, I ran a check on Bing. I have Norton. Norton has Free Republic.com marked as “SAFE”.


27 posted on 09/29/2015 12:48:29 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Normal people don't vote Democrat. Only zombies vote for Democrats.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

It might depend on how the security is set up on your browser.

FF: Options->Security->Block reported attack sites


28 posted on 09/29/2015 12:49:00 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: BluesDuke

Blah Blah Blah Bla Blah

https://threatpost.com/nsa-using-google-non-advertising-cookie-to-spy/103162/


29 posted on 09/29/2015 12:49:16 PM PDT by CGASMIA68
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To: BubbaJunebug
Just tried it and got no such message anywhere...are you sure about that

Did you click the link at the top, Example Search? I did under Pale Moon and Chrome. I did receive the message. The warning message is listed in each of the search results listed.

30 posted on 09/29/2015 12:49:28 PM PDT by sand88 (We can never legislate our way back to Liberty)
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To: Slings and Arrows

More and more I use bing.


31 posted on 09/29/2015 12:49:34 PM PDT by tje
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To: Slings and Arrows

I’m not getting any such messages on either explorer or firefox-where are you seeing it?


32 posted on 09/29/2015 12:49:52 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: Slings and Arrows
Related...

 

Vanity: Temporary Fix for the Malware warning page that is plaguing FR today

Posted on Sunday, September 27, 2015 11:13:23 AM by Maceman

33 posted on 09/29/2015 12:49:53 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (With Great Freedom comes Great Responsibility)
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To: CGASMIA68

Thanks!


34 posted on 09/29/2015 12:50:13 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (My music: http://hopalongginsberg.com/ | Facebook: Hopalong Ginsberg | Instagram: hopalonginsberg)
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To: Slings and Arrows

“Google is adding...”

Makes sense. What if a liberal Marxist socialist democRAT reads this site and figures out they have been all wrong all of their life and commits suicide?

Right, Google?

5.56mm


35 posted on 09/29/2015 12:50:38 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: jjotto

Just tried it - warning’s still there.


36 posted on 09/29/2015 12:51:51 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (My music: http://hopalongginsberg.com/ | Facebook: Hopalong Ginsberg | Instagram: hopalonginsberg)
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To: ichabod1

Slings link lead me to this on the top of the google page in the search area......site:freerepublic.com “thailand?”


37 posted on 09/29/2015 12:52:43 PM PDT by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11 HillaryForPrison2016)
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To: Slings and Arrows

I had that problem a few days ago, but it’s gone now.


38 posted on 09/29/2015 12:52:50 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: CGASMIA68
Blah Blah Blah Bla Blah

https://threatpost.com/nsa-using-google-non-advertising-cookie-to-spy/103162/

I guess that falls under the heading of the plots thickening. And, being unsurprising.
39 posted on 09/29/2015 12:53:19 PM PDT by BluesDuke (BluesDuke'll be back on the same corner in front of the cigar store . . .)
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To: Slings and Arrows

There was a thread the other day where the original posted link contained malware. i wonder if that was the cause?


40 posted on 09/29/2015 12:53:20 PM PDT by bk1000 (A clear conscience is a sure sign of a poor memory)
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