(Vanity) Is DRUDGEREPORT.COM spreading Computer viruses?

drudgereport ^ | 12-8-04 | me

[grandpiano007]

For the last two days, every time I visit Drudge, my computer gets hijacked by some pop-up virus. Am I the only one? I have to put the Yahoo-toolbar virus scanner on it and it tells me I got a Trojan horse hijacking my computer. It does get rid of it, but what's going on? Can someone please proof me wrong, so I can look for the cause somewhere else? Or have you experienced it too. Is drudge out of money or something to allow this scumware to infect his readers' computers?

[KwasiOwusu]

"That link is over a month old. As of December IE is only 88.9%"

Your link is not from a reputable source.
Plus even your link still gives IE over 20 times the share of firefox. Not even close.

[NoControllingLegalAuthority]

I just downloaded and installed firefox as a browser. It imports all your bookmarks. When you go to favorite web pages (such as drudge), firefox automatically blocks the pop-ups. Interestingly, Internet Explorer is still completely useable as a browser but I'm going to start using firefox exclusively.

[puppetz]

by the way, using lame forum tropes like calling someone a 'noob' is the sure sign of a pathetic human being. Get a job, get a gf, get a life because you are putting WAY too much obsessive pride in the fact you registered at a forum before someone else. Besides the fact you have time to report typos to Admins, I'm sure they love you for that.

[KwasiOwusu]

"Strengthened? What does that mean?"

Strengthened means just that, straightened..

NT3.51 already had TCP/IP in it, it just wasn't as robust as it could be.TCP/IP in Windows today is much, much better implemented than it used to be.

Bottom line: firefox is NOT TCP/IP.

[republicangel]

The same thing happened to me. It infected my puter, too.

[Recovering_Democrat]

Solution: spend $40 on Norton Internet Security/Anti-Virus. Or McAfee. No more popups, no more viruses.

[KwasiOwusu]

"Really? Besides CP/M and DR-DOS how many can you name.
Truly delusionary."

Delusionary?
You don't say.
You open source crazies really crack me up. :)
Let me see... Off the top of my head I can think of:

Commodore PET (One of the best personal computers ever made)
Radio Shack's PC
Apple Computer
and this was just around 1977 alone.

We haven't even talked about the Sinclair Computer and the BBC computer in Britain, which were hugely popular there at the time. Sold millions
Every sigle one of these had their own operating systems. :)


"Perhaps you should do a little homework before you make idiotic statements about "hundreds" of PC operating system"

Would it be asking too much to ask you to do the same? LMAO!

Naah! The open source "prophet" has spoken, right?

[elmer fudd]

"Plus even your link still gives IE over 20 times the share of firefox. Not even close."

88.9/7.4>20? You must be a product of our public schools. Probably explains your love of inferior products.

"OneStat's survey, based on Web users' activity in 100 countries, revealed that IE 6.0's market share fell to 88.9 percent in the third week of November, down 5 percentage points from its share in May 2004. Mozilla-based browsers, including Firefox, rose to 7.4 percent, up 5 percentage points from May."

[JoJo Gunn]

Okay, obviously I need some sleep.

The popup at ABC is killed. It was a small window. I got the properties off the image it contained, not the actual URL, the internet address. That's one of the reasons they have popups without address bars, and sometimes you have to search the History list offline to find it.

You don't block image ads alone, such as the one on Drudge, with my suggestion.

[elmer fudd]

Norton and McAfee will protect you from viruses and hackers, but not from spyware. A popup blocker just blocks the popups, but if you've got some malevalent program causing them, (Gator, Coolsearch, BonziBuddy, etc...), you don't just want to get rid of the popup, you want to get rid of what caused it.

[KwasiOwusu]

"88.9/7.4>20? You must be a product of our public schools"

93.8/3 > 25
Those are my figures. :)
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1706694,00.asp

[KwasiOwusu]

"OneStat's survey, based on Web users' activity in 100 countries"

I go by WebSideStory Inc's figures.
They have proved to be more reliable in the past.
Plus OneStat is European. Nothing will please them more than to see very powerful, American firm stmble.
Extract:
"We were laughing when we saw the numbers for Microsoft," said Geoff Johnston, an analyst with Web analytics provider WebSideStory.

His company wrote a different story about the browser market share movement. Its late-October report kept IE in the 90s and gave Firefox less credit than OneStat did.

WebSideStory said IE's 92.9 percent share of the market is just a 3 percent slide since the May numbers. The Web analytics firm also reported Firefox enjoyed only about a 3 percent bump. "
http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3442841

[elmer fudd]

Honestly I really don't care much about Microsoft or open source code. I just don't like IE because I find it's too susceptable to adware, tracking cookies, popups, hijackers, etc... If Microsoft were to come out with IE 6.5 tomorrow and it addressed all those problems and was as fast as Firefox I'd switch to it.

[Socrates1]

It seems our friend Kwasi has a history of being anti-open source software. A year ago he predicted that:

"In 2 years time Linux will be reeling from sustained, massive multipronged attacks ".

Rather than continuing what appears to be a pointless conversation, you might all enjoy an article from December, 2003 (Seattle Post-Intelligencer) where a certain Kwasi Owusu was destroyed by about (28) posters responding to another one of his juvenile "Microsoft Rulz" posts.

The consensus of the posters was that Kwasi was smoking some psychotropic tobacco. Perhaps he has just been drinking too much of the Redmond Kool-Aid.

He starts his commentary with:

"So! Old Eric keeps spewing out his loony left Stalinist propaganda, disinformation, half-truths, outright lies an dirty tricks as usual huh?
Nothing new there."

Seems that the statement that "Eric" referred to was a paraphrase of Steve Balmer's direct quotes. Kawasi's comments seem a little passionate, huh?

The (28) people that responded to his rant provided ample documentation, quotes, citations. et al to refute his lame assertions. Clearly he has some "problem" with open-source software, in general. Various posters assumed that he worked for Microsoft, based upon his statement:

"Then there is the little matter of a handsome $51 Billion in cash at the bank! We have a war chest that can wage a very long sustained war and WIN IT, and WE WILL !

He seems to be rehashing the same argument with a new crowd. Perhaps it is some annual "Kwasi ritual", so I won't bother rehashing the same old MS-BS any further here.

Kwasi Getting Sliced and Diced Last December .

Score: Posters 28 - Kwasi 0

 

[BallandPowder]

Powder..Patch..Ball FIRE!

>"Don't buy the hype. ff is very flawed, does not render >pages correctly, does not work with many forms, chat >progs, vid embeds, the list goes on and on. Opensource is >the biggest fraud and con on the net today."

>Agree.
>Firefox is a piece of garbage and a fraud.
>Its rubbish.
>The open source crazies keep polluting everywhere with >their nasty propaganda.
>They are every bit as insidious as the Dummies.
>Fall for their evil propaganda at your own peril.

Both of you have your heads up your a**es. Firefox is an EXCELLENT browser. Post an url of a page that you state won't render correctly...
I've been in IT for 15 years and it is the best browser available.

[GOP_Proud]

bump

[Duke Nukum]

I distrust open source and netscape too. I use Avant which has ad blocking and stuff. Lots of updates too.


http://www.avantbrowser.com/

[KwasiOwusu]

"Both of you have your heads up your a**es."

Tut, tut. Language.
You open source lunatics just love spewing out nasties don't you?
Figures. What else can you expect from a bunch of commies and anarchists?
BTW, I don't care if you have been in IT for 50 years, that still doesn't make firefox a piece of garbage, which it is.
On the other hand, I have had excellent service from my superb IE 6.
Love it. :)

[Rifleman]

I have extensive experience with many different browsers and email clients over many years. My personal computer experience started when I designed and build a 6502 based microcomputer from a $25 engineering kit (CPU and Manuals) from the manufacturer. I have been in the business continuously since that time. I support about 300 PCs of various vintages for a couple of dozen small businesses. So take my opinion for what it is worth.

Although much improved over a few years ago, MS network apps are still very vulnerable. The only advantage they have is the ability to render pages that were written in such a way as to break HTML standards (the old embrace and extend by MS). And that is what I keep them around for.

Use Mozilla/Firefox/Thunderbird for your day to day work under any variant of Windows. Get your Windows PCs behind a router (any Home/Small Office router will do) and keep your antivirus and anti-spyware software up to date.

Or better, just get a Knoppix or Xandros Linux CD and install a real OS on your PC. (I use Debian, but then I am a propeller-head of the first water).