Wonder if Firefox's "Block Reported Attack Sites" and "Block Reported Web Forgeries" features check with Google to determine which sites are legit and which aren't?
Posted on 02/18/2010 4:26:10 AM PST by RaceBannon
I just started using Google Chrome to try it and I keep getting a warning that Freerepublic.com is a site that links to patriotsden and that Patriotsden hosts malware
Commence the inquisition!
Thanks for the recommendations.
Looks like Patriotden might have been hacked.
Wonder if Firefox's "Block Reported Attack Sites" and "Block Reported Web Forgeries" features check with Google to determine which sites are legit and which aren't?
I use Chrome and I’ve never had this problem.
Now I get it. To disable
In Windows> Tools> Options
In Linux> Edit> Preferences
Under Security, uncheck “Block Reported Attack Sites” and “Block Reported Web Forgeries”.
Of course, you might not know after that when you are browsing a malicious site, but Google will be out of your business.
I don’t get it when I go straight to Freerepublic. I do when I go to Patriotsden.com.
I don’t know what that site is, but I simply disabled my browser’s ability to block attack sites. Usually, its not necessary on Ubuntu anyway.
Me too. I have good security and never get malware warnings on Free Republic.
This topic is incorrect in two ways. It has nothing to do with the free repulic site, it involves the patriotden site.
And it has nothing to do with Google Chrome, it involves Google Search, no matter which browser you are using.
that explains it all!
That’s what I said in post one
that’s funny, using GOOGLE CHROME it happpens!
Using GOOGLE SEARCH, it doesn’t happen!
Are you logged on?
There is definitely, or at least was in the late 80s early 90s, an idea going around in some university circles known as the "idea virus." This idea is simple. It is almost identical to "going viral" today. It just means a good idea that catches on and spreads itself rapidly throughout the population seemingly like a cold or virus.
The idea was, for the marxists, to try to come up with these "idea viruses" so that their ideas would become popular. The converse is true, too, that they would try to eliminate any of the other sides "idea viruses" so that they wouldn't spread.
Maybe google and others are doing this. It seems pretty much like human nature accelerated by technology to me.
I think we found who has the patriotden.com images on their profile and is posting images from that site. We’ll let them know of the error.
The issue isn’t with FR but with patriotden.com.
best way to let people know, I felt, thanks
Looks like one of the adds for a free check of you system. It is designed to sell you something, nothing to do with FR IMHO as it is redirecting you to another website.
It looks like you were getting this when you hit the /pings link because the images were posted in a comment to you. It doesn’t appear there was malicious intent of any sort, just someone picking up an image from a web search probably.
I figured it was the best way to tell both websites. :)
post it, see if otherrs had the problem, let you guys handle it. :)
If you told them already, this thread can be yanked!
I just launched the latest verion of google chrome on win 7 x64 and had no errors.
What you describe sounds like an anti-virus or anti-malware scanner trying to be helpful but not being so.
IMO you should check if you are using any other apps or add-ons somewhere in your system to detect hostile websites when you do searches.
I think I'm going to recommend that term for addition to the FR Alternative Lexicon Hall of Fame.
My beber went off when I saw it, and I was just stuned.
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