U.S. Attorney's office tells employees not to log on to Drudge Report

Politico ^ | May 15, 2009 | By JONATHAN MARTIN

[Havisham]

I’m recently experiencing a plague of crap from the site which has been my homepage for years. It’s been ‘remove trojan’ at least a dozen times in the past month. I’m just saying.

[Not A Snowbird]

Good one!

All I had on mine was a couple of scripts, and they’ve now been backed up. All of our computers were bought at the same time, and now they’re crashing in waves. We need new stuff!

(And it has nothing to do with Drudge...)

[BipolarBob]

"n a message sent May 4, Paul Harvey of the Boston office wrote that security officials with the U.S. Attorney’s Office at the Department of Justice asked them “to reformat/reimage two computers because the user visited the drudgereport.com site.”"

Now we know the rest of the story.

[Star Traveler]

I put this on another thread....

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You can use “Hostal” (for the Macintosh), too...

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/internet_utilities/hostal.html

It’s a little program that makes it easy for you to handle and manipulate a “hosts” file on your computer... (and this will block web addresses and sites and ads and so on...).

Hosts file
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_file

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That’s for Macintosh users — but the same thing (a Hosts file) applies to Windows users, too. The key here is to get a good and large list of blocked ad sites and put that into effect on the Hosts file and redirect them all to 127.0.0.1 ... LOL...

And, of course, Firefox has a nice ad blocking feature, too...

[Churchillspirit]

I think it was through Drudge that I found FR.

[j-damn]

*The government tells who you are allowed to access online*

Of course your employer can tell you what to do while you work...is that not SOP just about everywhere?

*We are getting closer to China everyday.*

Nonsense.

[BikerJoe]

I’m recently experiencing a plague of crap from the site which has been my homepage for years. It’s been ‘remove trojan’ at least a dozen times in the past month. I’m just saying.

Drudge whacked my FIL's machine last weekend. I'll be working on it THIS weekend (earliest I could get to it).

[Star Traveler]

Same here, back in either 1998 or 1999... I think...

There was a while where Drudge wouldn’t have Free Republic on his site though... :-)

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[I think there was a “war” going on between the two, at the time... LOL...]

[b4its2late]

If I were Drudge, I’d be worried about the uploads.

[Star Traveler]

You said — I don’t need Drudge Report I have Free Republic.

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Well..., yes, “eventually” you’ll get it on Free Republic. But, it will be on Drudge first... LOL...

[lwd]

Politico considers this “news”?

[Last Dakotan]

Note post #6 and post #7... :-)

Oh no! Its the dreaded - FR Thread of Ignorance!

[Star Traveler]

You said — Now we know the rest of the story.

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Ummmm..., except leaving out the “context” of an “infection”... LOL...

[kenmcg]

Heaven help us that the US Attorney’s office in Boston should be enlightened by truth. If there is a virus, they have the ability to track it down.

[Joe Boucher]

too funny vox too funny.

Also I like the Benelli M1 Super 90,
but my kid got a new saiga auto shotgun, WOW.

[Star Traveler]

Or else, a common “phrase” that people *do use* in saying that they get to a particular website... it’s one or the other (ignorance or common phraseology).

I’ll go with common phraseology...

[Star Traveler]

You said — If there is a virus, they have the ability to track it down.

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Yeah, I think they did.... Drudge... LOL...

Drudge reloads repeatedly and throws more ads at you all the time. I have that happen to me, too. Apparently a lot of other people (FReepers...) have had problems with Drudge. I would say it’s not just the U.S. Attorney’s office that is alone in having the problem with Drudge, apparently...

[Star Traveler]

As a follow up here, I will say that it doesn’t bother me, because I don’t worry about those over 100,000 viruses and so on with Windows, since I use a Macintosh... :-)

[cripplecreek]

I apparently don’t have to worry about them on a PC either.

[divine_moment_of_facts]

Schmaler also said the request to stay off Drudge wasn’t politically motivated and said it was sent only to the office in Massachusetts.

Why only Massachusetts if it was a potential risk to any user? And, if it were a problem with one of the advertisers, couldn't they have warned not to click on any advertisers?