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Vanity: Swastika on my Freerepublic URL window
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Posted on 07/10/2010 1:25:14 PM PDT by conservativeharleyguy

A tiny swastika appears on my "URL window" when I'm on Freerepublic.


TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Focus Software; Free Republic Policy/Q&A; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: google; icons; ie8; wtf
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To: conservativeharleyguy

I see in the headers:

http://www.freerepublic.com/l/favicon.ico

Can you check the header content you are getting in IE 8?


21 posted on 07/10/2010 1:53:37 PM PDT by proxy_user
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To: conservativeharleyguy

Pics? Screenshot? Or you know the rule....


22 posted on 07/10/2010 1:55:06 PM PDT by RachelFaith (2010 is going to be a 100 seat Tsunami - Unless the GOP Senate ruins it all...)
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To: gunnyg

Thats a really good point. ;)


23 posted on 07/10/2010 1:55:27 PM PDT by GeronL (http://libertyfic.proboards.com <--- My Fiction/ Science Fiction Board)
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To: conservativeharleyguy

I had a peace symbol, until I clicked to post, then it turned to a white star with red and blue, which is usually what I have when on FR.


24 posted on 07/10/2010 1:57:24 PM PDT by mockingbyrd (Remember in November.)
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To: Egon; conservativeharleyguy

In Firefox, it is possible to turn off the display of this icon in the address bar, at least. Not sure about the bookmark list, and I have no idea if that’s possible in IE.

I suspect hacker involvement with the swastika icon appearing in place of the normal FR star icon, it may be something that was picked up from a moonbat site (since they hate FR).

Actually, I like having those little icons in the bookmark list, it makes it easier to find the ones I want.


25 posted on 07/10/2010 1:57:35 PM PDT by Fresh Wind (For the first time in half a century, there is no former KKK member in the US Senate.)
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To: El Sordo
Mine changed last night and now looks like a little gold picture frame, like the National Geographic logo. Here's the "screensot."

"Photobucket

26 posted on 07/10/2010 2:06:27 PM PDT by ItsForTheChildren
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To: conservativeharleyguy

I have the star, running Opera.


27 posted on 07/10/2010 2:11:18 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: conservativeharleyguy

The best way to keep junk like this from recurring is to protect yourself.

Now, if you are using IE, you are kinda screwed.
You can get CCLEANER and have it clean up your temporary files. It will also clean up your registry. It works for both FIREFOX and IE.

Just go here to download CCLEANER. It’s free. http://download.cnet.com/ccleaner/?tag=mncol

If you use FIREFOX, there are many addons that help.
GHOSTERY
TACO
BETTER PRIVACY
NOSCRIPT

PLUS with FIREFOX you can have FOXTAB (which puts all your tabs into a display with multiple options (I like the multi screen one) and COOLIRIS, which lets you views any type of IMAGES, ANYWHERE (on your hard drive, on google) and even searching for games, or videos. It puts the images in front of you like a wall of paintings that you can ‘sail’ past, forwards or backwards, zoom in/out, and has a PLAY mode where is will act as a SCREEN SAVER by displaying all images selected, full size, and with special effects if you choose, and the ‘count’ of images is only limited by how many are found in the ‘search’ (like in google. This could be millions of photos)


28 posted on 07/10/2010 2:11:41 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The Last Boy Scout)
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To: hometoroost; conservativeharleyguy

“I have IE8 and I have shifting icons all the time with all of the sites I visit. Right now when I have FR up there’s a hockey logo.”

Yep...I had that problem with earlier versions, for a little while, but uninstalled and reinstaled latest version and its gone now...just a glich.


29 posted on 07/10/2010 2:13:11 PM PDT by jessduntno (A-Stan: "illiterate peasants in caves, ruled by "warlords" ... not a target for "nation building.")
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To: mnehring

I have the same logo. Sounds like a hijacking.


30 posted on 07/10/2010 2:34:00 PM PDT by wiggen (Government owned slave.)
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To: ItsForTheChildren

Innerestin’.

And my typo is now preserved for posterity.

I’ve always had the white star on a red n’ blue background. Never seen FR do anything else.


31 posted on 07/10/2010 2:35:18 PM PDT by El Sordo (The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen.)
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To: El Sordo; Constitution Day; Tax-chick; Tijeras_Slim
Screensot or it didn’t happen.

There. Happy now.

32 posted on 07/10/2010 2:43:05 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: conservativeharleyguy

>>> I use IE-8

Problem solved.


33 posted on 07/10/2010 2:45:46 PM PDT by Skared2deth
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To: martin_fierro

Who you callin’ a screensot? I’ve given up drinking in order to achieve sveltefulness for my vacation in September.


34 posted on 07/10/2010 2:46:51 PM PDT by Tax-chick (We made a proactive decision to postpone the originally scheduled nightlife activities.)
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To: feedback doctor

There are no good crackers or dey babies


35 posted on 07/10/2010 3:05:55 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: conservativeharleyguy

IE8 is crap, use Mozilla or Chrome. IE has never handled favicons properly and it’s just a crap browser.


36 posted on 07/10/2010 3:12:56 PM PDT by Weird Tolkienish Figure
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To: Valpal1
Weird, I have a little red, white and blue star icon.

Hey, mine too. I'll not be doing the upgrade(?) to IE 8 anytime soon.

37 posted on 07/10/2010 3:13:39 PM PDT by JimRed (To water the Tree of Liberty is to excise a cancer before it kills us. TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
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To: conservativeharleyguy

Post a screenshot of your browsing history, that may help figure out where it came from. :->


38 posted on 07/10/2010 3:31:13 PM PDT by mnehring
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To: All
Thanks folks. Just cleared the cache, and it went away. Back to normal (RWB star logo). Duh...

I was just concerned that FR was tagged as a "Nazi hate site" by my carrier (Verizon).

BTW, to the “IE sucks” techno-bigots, very helpful, super constructive. Don't know if I'd have ever resolved such a minor glitch without the information that Microsoft sucks, it's all Bill Gates’ fault, and a shareware browser is the only way to go. Silly ‘lil me. Ummm, I don't have firefox or mozilla, so “tech support” for them is sort of... irrelevant - like telling a stranded motorist that if he only had bought a car with fuel injection, he wouldn't have a vapor-locked carburetor in the middle of the desert. Not really germane to the problem at hand. But thanks anyway...

39 posted on 07/10/2010 3:51:53 PM PDT by conservativeharleyguy (Democrats: Over 60 million fooled daily!)
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To: martin_fierro

Ha!

+1 Win.


40 posted on 07/10/2010 3:59:28 PM PDT by El Sordo (The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen.)
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