Posted on 10/27/2015 4:49:01 PM PDT by 2harddrive
I followed a FR link to a video about William Casey - since that time I’ve had a cookie called “self-repair.mozilla.org ... and as many times as I erase it - it comes back. Nothing I have works against it.
Maybe there’s a connection.
Thanks - got it!
Posted on 10/27/2015, 8:21:09 PM by Jim Robinson
Basically, it’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 is a 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.
Thanks GOPJ
Regarding google's malware database and malware warnings on FR
October 27, 2015 | Jim Robinson
Note: IE and Edge (Windows 10) are not doing this to me, or is Safari (iOS). Draw your own conclusions.
Jim is aware:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3353601/posts
I’m vaccinated AGAINST all malware, both foreign and
domestic!
I got it earlier today too... when trying to make a post, said it malware error and I ended up triple posting until I just hit refresh and realized it posted 3 times already. I ran spybot after and it has not happened since.
Yeah, had this happened to me a couple of days ago. Took hours calling Dell to get it fixed.
FR, since its inception has been one of the cleanest pages on the internet. Now, what you might be picking up are graphics from =other= sites that are hotlinked into a thread, but that's not actually FR.
More likely than anything else, it's a bunch of leftists reporting FR as a malware site, and getting their jollies watching people freak out.
Chill out.
The dice are on the carpet.
Wound my heart with a monotonous languor.
Had the problem on Google, switched to Internet Explorer, no problem here.
the president is what’s brown and filling a diaper.
test. It won’t do me any good any way since I am still apparently after 3 weeks on “probation”...
If I use Chrome, I too see the orange page but if I use Windows 10 Microsoft Edge, No problem.
I am running into them too. I think the website has been infected.
Really? Sources?? Evidence?? Who is saying this??? Just you???
I think if the site is probably under attack by something less nefarious.
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