Posted on 10/27/2015 5:21:09 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
Basically, it's full of crap. Apparently, they have two issues with FR. One is that a user (a long-time user not a hacker) posted a link to an image that (unknown to him) resides on a site google has registered in their database as a malware site. We've pulled the post and notified google. Have no idea when they'll stop flagging us.
The other is that we have links to aim.org. NSS. Aim is a conservative site. Have no idea how many, but I'm sure we've had hundreds or even thousands of links posted to aim.org. We're not going to pull them.
Why google is apparently randomly flagging unrelated threads on FR I have no idea. Your guess is good as mine.
But it's not just google Chrome. Any browser that relies on google's database is doing this.
If you want to stop these erroneous and obnoxious warning messages immediately, you can set a browser option to ignore such warnings. Your virus protection software will catch any real viruses.
Thank you all very much for notifying me. I've received dozens and dozens of these already. Sorry, cannot answer each one individually.
Message from JimRob — ping to all lists.
btw, if you can’t figure out how to keep your browser from succumbing to the phony baloney malware warnings — they’re phony, because they don’t happen, then they happen, in the very same topic — try logging on without the www prefix, seems to fool the fascists at Google. For example, this topic:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3353601/posts
I added Ghostery to Firefox and it is good so far.
Bookmarked
Check out article and # 181 .
Thanks SunkenCiv.
Thanks, I’ll see what’s available. Won’t help me in here though, on the 21 year old Mac.
I just click “this site is not a threat” and go back a page. Works every time for me.
I believe I was still running an Apple][GS 21 years ago...
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BTW, to kill the GoogleMallie crud with Safari, just go to
Safari > Preferences > Security -- and un-check, "Warn when visiting fraudulent websites"...
It used to show up on my Internet machine from time-to-time, but I believe those were cases as JR mentioned; where a user posts a pic or a link to a site with bad code on it.
This seemed to get very consistently showing up on my Internet machine. I’m going see if there’s a way to ‘white-list’ FR to keep it away.
I have ZERO Internet based Net based problems because I run ALL Internet sessions through a VM. At the end of most sessions, simply revert it to s ‘clean’ snapshot through VMWare. so easy and fast to put into use, even an AOL user can easily do it.
I run other VMs for other uses. Microsoft has a product for users can run(runs on RedHat Linux), but aren’t as flexible for business uses. Linux also has some capability in that regard, but I haven’t yet tried them. I’ve heard nothing but good things about them. I believe Apple also has software with that capability.
Thanks, I finally figured out how to make it work. Click your link, then go click ping list, etc. I also discovered that even though I got the red page when I tried to post a comment, it actually printed, so I have some duplicates out there.
It did for a while, yes.
Liberals make these lists and intentionally include groups like Aim and FR.
I don’t doubt FR was subject to some DU false complaint brigade.
Because Google is evil?
Jim - It’s 8:06 AM, Oct. 28th and Google is still flagging FR with a full-page splash page.
It’s been near-impossible to post - and when I do, two to three copies of my post appear.
Sorry - date should be October 29th, not 28th - and I’m still getting the malware warning as of 8 AM PDT.
I was hoping that was all cleared up. Google is not posting warnings on our links anymore on searches that turn up FR threads and badware clearinghouse no longer has us red flagged. You might try clearing your cache or closing and restarting your browser. I haven’t seen any red screens since about midnight last night.
Google is not in my computer vocabulary and I do not get any of these messages. I have actually managed to block Google from manifesting itself on my machine.
I switched from the GS to the PM 7600 at that time; never got rid of the GS though. Using a text interface and Lynx (which still works; also there’s Ewan Wannop’s stuff which uses a GUI; and in recent years there’s, uh, I can’t remember what it’s called, started on the C64, but has been ported to other 65x platforms) got to be too much of a constraint.
Performas were ill-named, AFAIC. Most of them can be juiced up with the right add-on (Sonnet made a L-cache accelerator card that will work in most of those models); also there’s a single expansion slot that can host an ethernet card. For dialup, best option is to pull that standard internal modem (fiasco), reactivate the modem port, add a 56K controller-based external modem.
Huh, it sez here, “April 22, 1996” as the intro date. I guess that’s correct. So, this box is only 19 years old. It has a G4 1 ghz processor upgrade (Sonnet), a SATA adapter, 500 gb drive (the original drive was 1.4 gb I think), Radeon 7500 or something, three monitors, Microsoft 5000 wireless mouse (one of my beaten up old ones, easily my favorite mouse btw), wired keyboards (one is an old ADB, that’s for those times when nothing else will do, these USBs don’t activate until the boot is done)... all I need now is to *try* a Linux installation...
Thanks for getting back to me on this Jewbacca...
I hope so Jim. I would get the red flag when I posted a reply only. I will see when I post this if it is gone. Son couldn’t fix it and I just stopped posting.
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