Not the red screen of horror again!
Posted on 10/28/2015 10:53:00 AM PDT by Jim Robinson
Basically, google'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 (Accuracy in Media) is a well known 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.
But I think Google is deliberately complicit in this. They could have removed that warning quickly if they were so inclined.
Google is the New Stasi, and they have decided not to permit thought with which they disagree.
Google's position is Gleichschaltung!
Personally I like the warnings. It reminds me several times per day who the enemy is.
Checking to see if opera mobile has any issues.
BTW, What is NSS? Is it The National Speleological Society?
No issues with opera mobile.
Not the red screen of horror again!
Checking adblock free browser, but not anticipating any issues.
No issues.
***
“Damn,” cursed the cyber expert in the bowels of the Democratic National Committee. “The Robinsons figured out the problem. I need further guidance on our next step.”
The expert left his desk, walked down the corridor to a gray gun-metal door. Punching a combination into the door lock and having his retina scanned, he walked through the door from the bowels of the Democratic National Committee....
...into the bowels of the Republican National Committee.
I'm guessing - "No S***, Sherlock".
I used google and looked it up. Found it on the urban dictionary: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=NSS
Jim-
Don’t know whether this is of assistance or not. Back during when our state was having the same-sex marriage fight a couple of years ago, church and religious sites here that believed in traditional marriage, including my church, were finding that their websites were being blocked as containing viruses or “child-unfriendly or harmful material” by various anti-virus and anti-spam programs.
What was eventually discovered was that “someone” (presumed to be the national pro-homosexual advocacy groups) had the ability to access anti-virus, anti-spam sites in Russia and reported and got their opponents listed there as harmful sites. The anti-virus companies around the world share their databases, so then the American anti-virus companies would pick up on the listings, would incorporate them into their lists, and would then block your church site as containing viruses/pornography, etc.
That problem stopped after a while, so McAfee et al. must have figured it out and received enough complaints that they did something about it. But since the listings were happening outside of the country through foreign-language sites that I assume never tried to verify the listings, that’s how they got control over what the American anti-spam/anti-virus companies were doing.
I don’t know if similar games are being played with FR by folks who want to shut it down. It sure sounds like the same tactic by someone who wants to mess around with you. You may want to try to contact the IP folks at groups like Focus on the Family and the Family Research Council, because I think they have gone through similar things as well and may be able to help you with a response.
What will be interesting is if my response also gets the harmful virus block when I try to post it now.
Yep, it tried to block me.
www. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleichschaltung
In Nazi terminology, Gleichschaltung (German pronunciation: ['gla?ç?alt??]),
translated as "coordination",[1] "making the same", "bringing into line", "synchronization")
was the process by which the Nazi regime successively established a system of totalitarian control and coordination over all aspects of society.
Claudia Koonz uses the term to explain the transformation of ordinary Germans - who had not,
before 1933, been more prejudiced than their counterparts elsewhere
- from indifferent bystanders into collaborators with persecution.[citation needed]
Among the goals of this policy were to bring about adherence to a specific doctrine
and way of thinking and to control as many aspects of life as possible."
Well if you figure out the image link that caused all this, please pass it along so that I can go and post it over at DU.
I got it again this morning and then went into FF tools>options>security and added FR as an exception.
So far so good, however the blocking came intermittently on different threads, so time will tell.
This post has been flagged as a potential malware site. You could receive viruses, malware, spyware, and ads for gay sex toys by visiting this post. If this message lasts for more than four hours, throw your computer out the window.
j/k.
Combined PING! and DANG!
The Microsoft IE and the Edge do not run on the same platform as Chrome, Yahoo, Firefox, AOL, Facebook Youtube and the majority of the search engines in the world which apparently are the ones having the problems.
This problem is now happening for many, many websites. Google safe search is now not just checking a website, but the LINKS to other websites, and if THOSE websites are “unsafe”, then google considers the referring website “unsafe” too. This is a total nightmare for any kind of website that accepts public posts that include links, and quite frankly, i don’t see how google can rationally keep the chains of “unsafe” sites from spreading indefinitely in any useful fashion.
Bottom line, excessive false alarms like these simply result in turning off the warning features in browsers and/or ignoring the alarms as most likely being erroneous. Google needs to realize that their safe search service would be MUCH more useful if they missed a few bad sites (which they are always going to anyway) and concentrate on eliminating false alarms that trash the confidence levels of their warnings.
But goo0gle is EEEEVVVVILLLL! ;)
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