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U.S. Attorney's office tells employees not to log on to Drudge Report
Politico ^ | May 15, 2009 | By JONATHAN MARTIN

Posted on 05/15/2009 12:50:20 PM PDT by Islander7

The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Massachusetts directed employees earlier this month not to log onto the Drudge Report website with government-issued computers due to potential viruses on the site.

In a message sent May 4, Paul Harvey of the Boston office wrote that security officials with the U.S. Attorney’s Office at the Department of Justice asked them “to reformat/reimage two computers because the user visited the drudgereport.com site.”

“Please avoid the Drudgereport website from the [United States Attorney’s Office] computers,” Harvey wrote.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: bhodoj; drudge; internet; newmedia
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To: Islander7

I’m recently experiencing a plague of crap from the site which has been my homepage for years. It’s been ‘remove trojan’ at least a dozen times in the past month. I’m just saying.


41 posted on 05/15/2009 1:07:55 PM PDT by Havisham
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To: Lx

Good one!

All I had on mine was a couple of scripts, and they’ve now been backed up. All of our computers were bought at the same time, and now they’re crashing in waves. We need new stuff!

(And it has nothing to do with Drudge...)


42 posted on 05/15/2009 1:09:51 PM PDT by Not A Snowbird (I'm the one Janet warned you about)
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"n a message sent May 4, Paul Harvey of the Boston office wrote that security officials with the U.S. Attorney’s Office at the Department of Justice asked them “to reformat/reimage two computers because the user visited the drudgereport.com site.”"

Now we know the rest of the story.

43 posted on 05/15/2009 1:10:32 PM PDT by BipolarBob (Liberals wouldn't just free Barrabas, they would elect him to represent them.)
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To: George from New England

I put this on another thread....


You can use “Hostal” (for the Macintosh), too...

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/internet_utilities/hostal.html

It’s a little program that makes it easy for you to handle and manipulate a “hosts” file on your computer... (and this will block web addresses and sites and ads and so on...).

Hosts file
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_file


That’s for Macintosh users — but the same thing (a Hosts file) applies to Windows users, too. The key here is to get a good and large list of blocked ad sites and put that into effect on the Hosts file and redirect them all to 127.0.0.1 ... LOL...

And, of course, Firefox has a nice ad blocking feature, too...


44 posted on 05/15/2009 1:12:10 PM PDT by Star Traveler
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To: Uncle Hal

I think it was through Drudge that I found FR.


45 posted on 05/15/2009 1:13:44 PM PDT by Churchillspirit
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To: aragona

*The government tells who you are allowed to access online*

Of course your employer can tell you what to do while you work...is that not SOP just about everywhere?

*We are getting closer to China everyday.*

Nonsense.


46 posted on 05/15/2009 1:13:47 PM PDT by j-damn
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To: Havisham
I’m recently experiencing a plague of crap from the site which has been my homepage for years. It’s been ‘remove trojan’ at least a dozen times in the past month. I’m just saying.

Drudge whacked my FIL's machine last weekend. I'll be working on it THIS weekend (earliest I could get to it).
47 posted on 05/15/2009 1:15:16 PM PDT by BikerJoe
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To: Churchillspirit

Same here, back in either 1998 or 1999... I think...

There was a while where Drudge wouldn’t have Free Republic on his site though... :-)

[I think there was a “war” going on between the two, at the time... LOL...]


48 posted on 05/15/2009 1:15:55 PM PDT by Star Traveler
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To: Islander7

If I were Drudge, I’d be worried about the uploads.


49 posted on 05/15/2009 1:17:13 PM PDT by b4its2late (Ignorance allows liberalism to prosper.)
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To: George from New England

You said — I don’t need Drudge Report I have Free Republic.

Well..., yes, “eventually” you’ll get it on Free Republic. But, it will be on Drudge first... LOL...


50 posted on 05/15/2009 1:18:00 PM PDT by Star Traveler
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To: Islander7

Politico considers this “news”?


51 posted on 05/15/2009 1:18:55 PM PDT by lwd (Miss California is MY Miss USA!!!)
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To: Star Traveler
Note post #6 and post #7... :-)

Oh no! Its the dreaded - FR Thread of Ignorance!

52 posted on 05/15/2009 1:19:34 PM PDT by Last Dakotan
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To: BipolarBob

You said — Now we know the rest of the story.

Ummmm..., except leaving out the “context” of an “infection”... LOL...


53 posted on 05/15/2009 1:20:06 PM PDT by Star Traveler
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To: hflynn

Heaven help us that the US Attorney’s office in Boston should be enlightened by truth. If there is a virus, they have the ability to track it down.


54 posted on 05/15/2009 1:20:17 PM PDT by kenmcg (cOMMBYAH)
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To: vox_freedom

too funny vox too funny.

Also I like the Benelli M1 Super 90,
but my kid got a new saiga auto shotgun, WOW.


55 posted on 05/15/2009 1:22:31 PM PDT by Joe Boucher (yEP,i)
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To: Last Dakotan

Or else, a common “phrase” that people *do use* in saying that they get to a particular website... it’s one or the other (ignorance or common phraseology).

I’ll go with common phraseology...


56 posted on 05/15/2009 1:23:53 PM PDT by Star Traveler
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To: kenmcg

You said — If there is a virus, they have the ability to track it down.

Yeah, I think they did.... Drudge... LOL...

Drudge reloads repeatedly and throws more ads at you all the time. I have that happen to me, too. Apparently a lot of other people (FReepers...) have had problems with Drudge. I would say it’s not just the U.S. Attorney’s office that is alone in having the problem with Drudge, apparently...


57 posted on 05/15/2009 1:26:36 PM PDT by Star Traveler
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To: kenmcg

As a follow up here, I will say that it doesn’t bother me, because I don’t worry about those over 100,000 viruses and so on with Windows, since I use a Macintosh... :-)


58 posted on 05/15/2009 1:27:36 PM PDT by Star Traveler
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To: Star Traveler

I apparently don’t have to worry about them on a PC either.


59 posted on 05/15/2009 1:30:08 PM PDT by cripplecreek (The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
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To: Islander7
Schmaler also said the request to stay off Drudge wasn’t politically motivated and said it was sent only to the office in Massachusetts.

Why only Massachusetts if it was a potential risk to any user? And, if it were a problem with one of the advertisers, couldn't they have warned not to click on any advertisers?


60 posted on 05/15/2009 1:31:03 PM PDT by divine_moment_of_facts
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