More Baracky Fairness Doctrine fun:
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Diagnostic page for www.spectator.org/What is the current listing status for www.spectator.org/?
Site is listed as suspicious - visiting this web site may harm your computer.
What happened when Google visited this site?
Of the 95 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 1 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. The last time Google visited this site was on 06/30/2008, and the last time suspicious content was found on this site was on 04/05/2008.
Malicious software is hosted on 2 domain(s), including h25.6600.org, dns5.8866.org.
Has this site acted as an intermediary resulting in further distribution of malware?
Over the past 90 days, www.spectator.org/ did not appear to function as an intermediary for the infection of any sites.
Has this site hosted malware?
No, this site has not hosted malicious software over the past 90 days.
How did this happen?
In some cases, third parties can add malicious code to legitimate sites, which would cause us to show the warning message.
Next steps:
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Comment by jmflynny on 7/1 @ 10:05 pm #
Jeeves and the Dogpile folks need to get off their asses and make their search engines as easy to use as Google, and like quick. I prefer to not use Google as my engine of choice, but often end up there after searching elsewhere and hitting a dead-end.
Comment by cranky-d on 7/1 @ 10:13 pm #
You might try clusty.com. It seems to work fairly well. However, I almost always go to google out of habit.
Comment by McGehee on 7/1 @ 10:16 pm #
I turned off the “attack site” filter in Firefox because of that very same warning.
I still use Google (for pretty much the same reasons as jmflynny), but I use ad-blocking extensions so I don’t see their ads. And I use the free version of Google Earth.
Comment by larry on 7/1 @ 11:10 pm #
I had that earlier tonight and after reading it I figured that the obamabots had flagged it. Both and LinkedIn and Google engineering teams are in the tank for Obama. What a bunch of maroons
Comment by moviegique on 7/2 @ 1:44 am #
McAffee site advisor blocks it, too.
Comment by OregonGuy on 7/2 @ 10:31 am #
http://www.altavista.com
Particularly good with “sciencey” searches.
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Comment by David R. Block on 7/2 @ 11:51 am #
Fairness Doctrine Trial Run number 2.
Comment by pmann on 7/2 @ 6:21 pm #
Ya’ll are crazy. Wingnuts will be able to distribute malware after the election just fine.
Comment by Karl on 7/3 @ 11:52 am #
Insta-lanche!
Comment by John Blake on 7/3 @ 12:05 pm #
Make IxQuick your homepage. Since September 2006, this Dutch server has been untraceably deleting all clients’ browser traffic. Try “drilling down” for something that’s not there!
As for YouTube and its ilk, or even cellphones for that matter, anyone who trusts privacy pledges is in for a rude shock. Absent encryption, there are ways to frustrate blanket intrusions but since they entail time and effort few prospective victims ever bother.
Archie Bunker to the FBI: “I’m innocent!”
FBI to Archie Bunker: “Innocent of what?”
Comment by jdm on 7/3 @ 12:17 pm #
Thanks, John, for the IxQuick tip. And dittos on the privacy comments.
Comment by Charlie (Colorado) on 7/3 @ 2:35 pm #
Guys, not to spoil your fun, but as a computer security guy I got curious about this, went ahead through, and discovered the issue is one of the ad servers serving ads into Spectator. Google isn’t blocking Spectator per se, it’s reacting to one of the embedded adverts.
Comment by maxxman on 7/3 @ 5:17 pm #
http://www.clusty.com (mentioned above) works at least as well as google, and organizes results by topic in the left hand side bar.
Here’s the results for protein wisdom:
http://clusty.com/search?input-form=clusty-simple&v%3Asources=webplus&query=protein+wisdom
Notice the top result is the site itself.
“Don’t be evil - don’t use Google.”
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Comment by McGehee on 7/4 @ 2:43 pm #
Bad implementation by Google (as in, blocking the entire site because of an ad)? I’m shocked.
Comment by Charlie (Colorado) on 7/4 @ 7:40 pm #
McGeehee, you tell me how Google is supposed to know whether an embedded ad is being served by some malicious advert company or being served from the owners of the website.
Comment by pmann on 7/6 @ 4:49 pm #
They got the tinfoil hat crowd in a rush to install malware. Looks like they couldn’t have implemented it better.