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GOOGLE CHROME SAYS FREEREPUBLIC.COM LINKS TO MALWARE SITE
GOOGLE CHROME | 2-18-10 | GOOGLE??

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


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KEYWORDS: 0n0es; google; hahaimusintehintrweb; malware; muchadoabout0; patriotsden; spoof; unclearontheconcept
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To: bert
Do you use the google browser?

Commence the inquisition!

61 posted on 02/18/2010 5:51:05 AM PST by Dan Middleton
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To: Squantos

Thanks for the recommendations.


62 posted on 02/18/2010 6:14:45 AM PST by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: martin_fierro

Looks like Patriotden might have been hacked.

http://safebrowsing.clients.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?client=Firefox&hl=en-US&site=http://patriotden.com/


63 posted on 02/18/2010 6:23:43 AM PST by Dead Corpse (III, Oathkeeper)
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To: Will88
Me too, in Firefox 3.5.7 on Ubuntu 9.10. What I don't understand is how Google ends up involved when I try to access Patriotden.com

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?

64 posted on 02/18/2010 6:24:11 AM PST by FLAMING DEATH (Are you better off than you were $4 trillion ago?)
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To: RaceBannon

I use Chrome and I’ve never had this problem.


65 posted on 02/18/2010 6:25:39 AM PST by Silly (“Okay, I'm getting just a little sick of this bereaved chicken-widow crap!”)
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To: FLAMING DEATH

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.


66 posted on 02/18/2010 6:32:03 AM PST by FLAMING DEATH (Are you better off than you were $4 trillion ago?)
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To: Silly

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.


67 posted on 02/18/2010 6:33:51 AM PST by FLAMING DEATH (Are you better off than you were $4 trillion ago?)
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To: fatnotlazy

Me too. I have good security and never get malware warnings on Free Republic.


68 posted on 02/18/2010 6:34:49 AM PST by SaraJohnson
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To: SaraJohnson

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.


69 posted on 02/18/2010 6:52:53 AM PST by AlanD
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To: Vigilantcitizen

that explains it all!


70 posted on 02/18/2010 7:01:41 AM PST by RaceBannon (OBAMA'S HEALTH CARE IS SHOVEL READY...FOR SENIORS!!:: NObama. Not my president.)
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To: FReepaholic

That’s what I said in post one


71 posted on 02/18/2010 7:06:32 AM PST by RaceBannon (OBAMA'S HEALTH CARE IS SHOVEL READY...FOR SENIORS!!:: NObama. Not my president.)
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To: AlanD

that’s funny, using GOOGLE CHROME it happpens!

Using GOOGLE SEARCH, it doesn’t happen!

Are you logged on?


72 posted on 02/18/2010 7:08:46 AM PST by RaceBannon (OBAMA'S HEALTH CARE IS SHOVEL READY...FOR SENIORS!!:: NObama. Not my president.)
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To: La Lydia
So Google, and Chrome, think ideas are “malware.”

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.

73 posted on 02/18/2010 7:09:06 AM PST by paulycy (Demand Constitutionality. (Hi Mom.))
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To: RaceBannon

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.


74 posted on 02/18/2010 7:13:41 AM PST by Admin Moderator
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To: Admin Moderator

best way to let people know, I felt, thanks


75 posted on 02/18/2010 7:16:39 AM PST by RaceBannon (OBAMA'S HEALTH CARE IS SHOVEL READY...FOR SENIORS!!:: NObama. Not my president.)
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To: RaceBannon

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.


76 posted on 02/18/2010 7:31:15 AM PST by A Strict Constructionist (How long before we are forced to refresh the Tree of Liberty? Sic semper tryannis)
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To: RaceBannon

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.


77 posted on 02/18/2010 7:32:09 AM PST by Admin Moderator
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To: Admin Moderator

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!


78 posted on 02/18/2010 7:34:44 AM PST by RaceBannon (OBAMA'S HEALTH CARE IS SHOVEL READY...FOR SENIORS!!:: NObama. Not my president.)
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To: RaceBannon

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.


79 posted on 02/18/2010 7:41:57 AM PST by paulycy (Demand Constitutionality. (Hi Mom.))
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To: buck61
FR, a consecrative web sight

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.

80 posted on 02/18/2010 7:50:59 AM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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