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Is FR Under Cyber Attack?
Vanity Post Freerepublic ^
| May 13, 2010
| Kenny Bunk
Posted on 05/14/2010 11:47:57 AM PDT by Kenny Bunk
I access the web via Firefox and Google.
Last week, I linked, or attempted to, to Monica Crowley's website and was hit by the VIME Trojan. Quite a pain to track and destroy!
Since that time, when on FR, and only FR, I am experiencing frequent crashes, and much trouble linking to other sites from this one.
This could be a tracking tactic, and indeed, I have discovered several tracking cookies hovering and running in the background.
I believe the best suspect here is Google, monitoring political speech, especially any emanating from what they migght consider the right side of the political spectrum.
Any similar experiences? Any tips on better monitoring the monitors?
TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Conspiracy; Society
KEYWORDS: attack; cyber; links; malware
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To: Kenny Bunk
Get Root ! Avoid W32 viruses
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posted on
05/14/2010 11:50:58 AM PDT
by
Uri’el-2012
(Psalm 119:174 I long for Your salvation, YHvH, Your law is my delight.)
To: Kenny Bunk
You probably still have some issues if you had a virus attack, sometimes those things comes in packets. I got one a little while back and it was a pain to find them all.
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posted on
05/14/2010 11:51:21 AM PDT
by
GeronL
(Political Correctness Kills)
To: Kenny Bunk
Are you logged in? Haha.
Works fine for me, so, I don’t think its a problem with FR. I’m afraid the problem is still your computer.
SnakeDoc
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posted on
05/14/2010 11:52:00 AM PDT
by
SnakeDoctor
("The world will know that free men stood against a tyrant [...] that even a god-king can bleed.")
To: Kenny Bunk
I could be your computer. Does it happen when you use your computer ?
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posted on
05/14/2010 11:53:21 AM PDT
by
sickoflibs
( "It's not the taxes, the redistribution is the federal spending=tax delayed")
To: Kenny Bunk
We rate a whole division of Google, who only is there to mess with Freepers...
More seriously, with Firefox, once it battles a trojan, the best thing is to completely uninstall it, clear out the temporary internet files and the windows temp folder, then re-install. FreeRepublic’s interface is pretty simple, but the settings most people use makes for a much bigger page than is normal for web surfing, and it can expose errors.
I'd suggest Chrome, but, well, the Google Attack Team might get me...
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posted on
05/14/2010 11:53:32 AM PDT
by
kingu
(Favorite Sticker: Lost hope, and Obama took my change.)
To: GeronL
I like FR’s block on my iGoogle homepage, so I wouldn’t jump to conclusions that it’s Google.
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posted on
05/14/2010 11:53:41 AM PDT
by
ReneeLynn
(Socialism is SO yesterday. Fascism, it*s the new black. Mmm Mmm Mmm.)
To: Kenny Bunk
I think FR is always under attack.
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posted on
05/14/2010 11:53:55 AM PDT
by
Dallas59
(President Robert Gibbs 2009-2013)
To: Kenny Bunk
Which Antivirus and cleaner are you using?
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posted on
05/14/2010 11:54:17 AM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: Kenny Bunk
I have Norton 2010 - and I never, ever have any viruses, worms, malware, etc.
And .. I’ve had Norton since 1995 - and I’ve never had my system compromised by anybody or anything.
I don’t use any of the added stuff Norton does, I just use their anti-virus.
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posted on
05/14/2010 11:56:01 AM PDT
by
CyberAnt
To: CyberAnt; JoeProBono; Dallas59; ReneeLynn; GeronL; kingu; UriÂ’el-2012; sickoflibs; SnakeDoctor
Using MS Anti-virus. Problems are over. Definitely felt "tracked!"
I had already followed the kingu method, and that seemed to work.
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posted on
05/14/2010 12:06:35 PM PDT
by
Kenny Bunk
(Obama. He'll bring back States' Rights. In the meantime, this ain't gonna be pretty.)
To: Kenny Bunk
Kingu method? What’s that???
To: Kenny Bunk
Spybot so aptly named is a utility that will search your hard drive for invasions, bots, identity theft etc.
Ccleaner is a free utility to delete cookies and get rid of Temp files hanging around taking up space. It also has a section to delete unneeded registry keys in Windows. In addition it has a section where you can choose what processes to start up when boots up. This can save significant time when not utilizing processes that are not necessary.
Better Privacy
I should note that Adobe does provide a website and a website privacy panel that will let you eliminate LSO on a per domain basis. It's called Flash Player Settings Manager. But it's cumbersome and far less effective than Flush or Better Privacy.
If you want to learn more about LSO it can be found here:
Local Shared Objects
The potential sinister part is that these LSO (Local Shared Objects) can also be utilized to request permission to use your computer"s camera, microphone or to store information on your computer. The implications of this are startling.
You can see from the above that all one needs to do is activate the camera or microphone on your computer and your privacy has been invaded!
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posted on
05/14/2010 12:19:56 PM PDT
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
To: Kenny Bunk
I have had a McAfee pop up several times when I dialed up FR saying this site is marked Inappropriate, weird.
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posted on
05/14/2010 12:21:15 PM PDT
by
GoCards
("We eat therefore we hunt...")
To: Kenny Bunk
Now what do we talk about ? LOL
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posted on
05/14/2010 12:23:11 PM PDT
by
sickoflibs
( "It's not the taxes, the redistribution is the federal spending=tax delayed")
To: Kenny Bunk
“I have discovered several tracking cookies hovering and running in the background.”
Cookies can’t hover or run anywhere, they are non-executable files.
To: Kenny Bunk; John Robinson
I mostly use Linux (with some excursions into Solaris and FreeBSD) so I don't really have a dog in this hunt. Though neither are perfect, trojans and virus attacks are nearly non-existent on those platforms.
But this isn't a ``use Linux and all problems will vanish!'' fanboy response.
Instead, this presents an opportunity to express my appreciation to John Robinson (and the others involved) with the code behind FR. Unlike other sites, it's free of common attack points like Flash, JavaScript, Ajax and all kinds of other cruft that (IMHO) needlessly bloat a website. I've seen some complain that FR still has a 1990's look. NOT ME! I like it just as it is since I prefer content over eye-candy. The clean, straightforward look and feel plus the fast load time for the HTML make FR my goto site for news and opinion.
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posted on
05/14/2010 12:28:01 PM PDT
by
re_nortex
(DP...that's what I like about Texas...)
To: sickoflibs
Now what do we talk about ? LOLWell I have often wondered where, exactly, you stood on the Filioque Clause.
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posted on
05/14/2010 12:28:37 PM PDT
by
Kenny Bunk
(Obama. He'll bring back States' Rights. In the meantime, this ain't gonna be pretty.)
To: Kenny Bunk
There are mnay du types here and Jimbo needs another purge BAD!
LLS
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posted on
05/14/2010 12:30:06 PM PDT
by
LibLieSlayer
( WOLVERINES!)
To: Kenny Bunk
Can we argue about something? I will be the conservative and you be the troll on this thread, then we can swap on the next one?
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posted on
05/14/2010 12:35:39 PM PDT
by
sickoflibs
( "It's not the taxes, the redistribution is the federal spending=tax delayed")
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