Are you saying FR posters were infected or the FR website is now infected? I went to that site with Firefox and none of my programs detected anything. However, it’s possible my spyware doctor that runs all the time blocked it because I have it set to block automatically and not to notify me. It blocks and takes care of it automatically.
Don’t know about this particular situation, but from what I can tell FreeRepublic appears to be a very well run and secure site. The fact that users are not allowed to upload files here and can only post links means that any worse case serious infections will probably not come through this site. My postings and warnings on this thread were about a non-political business website that I was running which was a worse case hijacked scenario.