Vanity: Temporary Fix for the Malware warning page that is plaguing FR today

[Maceman]

I am finding that I got the malware page warning now every time I click on a link to the original source page.

However, I am finding this doesn't happen if you click from the link to the story from the main Forum page, rather than clicking on the link to the FR story page and then clicking to the original source link from there.

I'll be interested to know whether this solution works for anybody else.

[ican'tbelieveit]

Still getting it on my system.

[windcliff]

Been doing that for at least week. I thought it was just me

[conservative98]

I’m getting it again here. :(

[lysie]

For later.

[petercooper]

No malware, but FR pages loading very slowly the past couple days. All other sites are fine. What gives?

[Fiddlstix]

I'm seeing it here too now!

[Jim Robinson]

Have left messages to John. Hopefully he’ll check in soon.

[Squantos]

Nothing here .... my OS primary is MAC and desktop in office is PC....

[sheikdetailfeather]

I am using Mozilla and just went in on a thread and clicked on Breitbart. It gave me the attack site warning.

[TomGuy]

Many websites are converting to a ‘mobile friendly’ format.

Some of the scripting and links/features are playing havoc with regular computer browsers.

Many links and videos will open/play in one browser (Chrome) but not in another browser (Firefox).

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Whoever came up with the idea of ‘tiles’ should be executed — don’t even wait for sunrise.

[Bikkuri]

I haven’t seen it, but have read mant complaint for the last couple of hours, by FReepers about this problem...

[Fiddlstix]

Also this message:

FWIW, I have pro editions of antimalware and avast on this particular machine.

[SteveH]

addendum:

I am running Windows 8.1 or something like that on my laptop when I read FR. A fertile breeding ground for viruses, no doubt, but whatever (it is not like I am trying to run State using a private email account lol).

Does Google have FR on some malware website list?

[TomGuy]

I use CyberFox, a variation of Firefox. I just typed in Breitbart.com in the address bar. It opened without any problem.

I copied the link at the top an FR thread for breitbart.com^ and it opened fine.

I copied the link at the bottom of the initial FR thread description and it also opened fine.

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Some of this may have to do with specific browsers, including various extensions for Adblock, DoNotTrack, etc.

[Bikkuri]

Wondering if this similar to what Nachum was experiencing a ciuple of years ago..

[mass55th]

I’m on a MacBookPro. I use AdBlock Plus with both Firefox and Safari. When I click on the original story link using Firefox, I get the malware warning. I don’t get it when I do the same thing on Safari. I know it isn’t my computer, so I’m wondering if it could be Firefox that has the problem.

[MeshugeMikey]

Im using Chrome on my Mac Pro..and get the malware warning

[mass55th]

I just tried it again with several source links using Firefox, and it didn’t do it. It only happened the once. Weird.

[MeshugeMikey]

the link that directs from Free republic brought up the warnings

the direct link did not

[SteveH]

if FR is running apache on linux or freebsd then IMHO it should normally be clean of viruses.

My laptop is running chronically slow lately, but that has been true of every version of Windows I have ever run since the DOS days. Also I am starting to get redirected to msn.com for some odd reason. That seems like resulting a (benign) virus to me, but I do not associate it with FR (smile). I just get tired of constantly having to clean off viruses from virus-friendly Windows.

Maybe this is a Google malware system database false positive(?) which is now on their low-priority list to fix(?) (or not fix?).