Posted on 08/04/2007 7:14:25 PM PDT by raygun
Done, but with errors on the page.
Lately I've noticed that the FreeRepublic web-site appears to be under what can only be presumed to be some sort of nepharious hacker attack.
I get this message in my IE 6 browser (6.0.2900.2180.xpsp_sp2_gdr.070227-2254) status bar when I'm in the News/Activism Messages forum:
Done, but with errors on the page.
When I perform the usual "post-mortem" for such occurances, the computer cusses at me that "an object is expected"
This can typically be found missing around line 1324, always char 1.
So far the implicated FR modules implicated:
www.freerepublic.com/f-news/browser
www.freerepublic.com/focus/my
www.freerepublic.com/focus/my/comments
There are undoubtedly others.
I believe the situattion is way past the comittee stage, and a task force should be immediately formed to root out and punish those who stole our object.
Are you just going to sit around and do nothing until FreeRepublic is nothing more than nubs?
How long before the dinosaur death media begins to crow its vulture song about the "death spiral" that a very well feared right wing-hate blog has entered into? I hold FreeRepublic in extremely high regard and fear this recent development bodes extreme great ill for all mankind.
Its not so much that FreeRepulic's object has been stolen. This is quite similiar to Dirk Ghently's perplexity after conducting the Schroedinger Cat experiment with next door neighbor Mrs. Grundy's cat (which he "borrowed" not stole), in that he discovered that somebody had stolen the cat right out of the middle of his experiment. As he was dumbfounded, so am I: Its not the issue of that a cat had been stolen, but who would even want to steal a cat?
Which brings me back to the present issue: its not the matter that FreeRepublic's object has been stolen, but why would anybody even want to do so? That object must be quite valuable and I believe that the powers that be would be well behooved of themselves to keep it under better lock and key.
Honey, I think cocktail hour ended a few hours ago!
Never happened before..
A moose bit it off.
No trouble using Firefox 2.XXXXX.
Whose turn is it to get in the shower?
This would be because the last few updates to IE have resulted in a progressively more broken browser. Switch to FireFox.
What's going on John?
Make sure you log in first.
How could I be the first to ask???
Are you logged in?
Laz?
Are you in the shower?
site loaded a bit slow. i used the air spray thing on the pc and it seems to have helped.
No....he needs to get a shower first.
Actually today, no matter what browser I am using , this site in particular has been very slow to load. All other websites are fine.
Haven't noticed it today though.
Yeah John! Time to switch to Microsoft Windows, IIS and SQL Server!
:-D
I’ve seen similar issues lately (w/Firefox), but I also have been getting weird stuff elsewhere. Especially IMDB site, which I go to a lot.
I use Firefox and have seen no problems on this site like that.
I got a security cert warning too as I loaded FR...but it wasn’t the certificate for FR, it was for jewish???.com.
something is off
I got the security warning in firefox.
I use Opera. Just do a Google search, or go to. www.opera.com
Nothing like that here with Safari or Camino.
You probably have a bunch of tracking cookies or some trojans on your p.c. IE is terrible for getting bogged down with them.
Run a full scan with AVG, and a few other spyware tools.
I just want to be on record that I have evey hope that the cantakerous (and nororiously unreliable) < tonguw-in-cheek-off > flag will kick in very soon so as to mitigate this issue before this spins irreversably out of control and innocent object thieves families get needlessly hurt.
I have a clean computer and I got (just once) a certificate allow screen.
I noticed that too. FR was really slow this afternoon.
Close, but that looks more like a stunned beaver than a stuned beeber.
I use outpost firewall as well, and have noticed a few attack attempts while browsing FR in the last week or two.
Could be someone or something on the FR server, I couldn’t tell you what, except the IP adress from the last dns attack
IP Address 208 69 235 167
could be anything, a trojan, sniffer.
I got the same cert warning...using Camino on a Mac.
I switched about a year ago, I never use IE anymore. Firefox is faster as well, and hogs less memory, which is important if you have an older machine.
I’m going to turn this machine over to Linux when I get a new one, which I’m considering to start fresh on linux as well.
Windoz sucks, I’m so sick and tired of it, and I’ll be damned if I’m going to “upgrade” to a fresh bundle of headaches.
I’ll save a lot of money starting with linux as well.
I noticed this a couple of times in the past. I’m not positive but I believe it to be a graphic someone posted or something from a different site.
Done, but with errors on the page.
Ya know, just because I make more mistakes when I post than everybody else, it doesn't mean that you have to make such a big deal out of it.
That disgusting Monk LOL!
Basically those certificate allow screens mean that whatever is installing itself on your P.C. hasn’t been microsoft verified, or something along those lines.
Most of the time it’s some java script, flash media, or active x application, but sometimes it can be a bug using those screens. If you have your security settings set high you’ll get those screens, or if you have your settings set to notify you of unverified certificates.
Also you have to be very careful of those adds that pop up saying you won something when you are surfing around.
If you have a good pop up killer on your firewall ( also built in to firefox) you shouldn’t normally get those.
Good thing you corrected yourself, I was thinking you were telling me to f off!
I got the same cert warning...With Firefox
Also Firefox No Script say’s blocking google anaitics.com
Thailand?
I got page not found errors earlier today.
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