IE7 Blocking Google Image Search? 253
An anonymous reader writes, "I just tried a Google Image Search in IE7 for the first time. Whenever I click on an image, my browser tells me in big bold letters, "This is a reported phishing website." Try it yourself: make sure automatic phishing detection is turned on and do an (adorable) image search; click on one of the result thumbnails. MSN Live Image Search has no such issues. Insert Microsoft evil conspiracy theory here." I get this behavior under IE7, Win XP Pro, SP2, Parallels, Mac OS X.
And your point is? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:And your point is? (Score:5, Funny)
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Anonymous Cowards are a nationality now?
This is more serious than I thought.
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I thought I'd seen some pathetic Ask Slashdots, but this is an all-new low.
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Well, maybe... (Score:4, Funny)
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Strange (Score:5, Informative)
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"Did I just say that out loud?" (Andrea Corr)
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Fixed already? (Score:3, Insightful)
So true! (Score:2, Interesting)
I've also witnessed something a little more, well, let's just say metaphysical. A couple people I know seem to make computers crash or operate unpredictably. Anywhere from full-on crashes (on say, my computer that n
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I've been called out at 4am in the morning because an important machine had lost all of its passwords and wouldn't allow anybody to access it causing a delay costing 10's of 1000's of $ for each hour it was down.
I travelled 15miles to go in and press the caps lock button.
That was some hourly rate I got paid that night....
I think not (Score:5, Funny)
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I wonder how many slashdotters this "AC" will trick into installing IE7...
Can't duplicate (Score:5, Interesting)
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Indeed.
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The other one I've used, and when I was at Compaq I actually said it point blank to a customer, was that "the user-interface instruction set has not been properly assimilated."
No problem here (Score:2, Insightful)
Maybe you should ask politely on some IE7 forums before trying to incite a controvery at slashdot? Just a thought.
OMG CUTE (Score:5, Funny)
So, basically any page with frames containing other pages is evil now? Thank you, MS.
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Never ascribe to malice that which can be (Score:5, Insightful)
Its obviously not in their interest to incorrectly block google images. All it will do is make people not trust the phishing stuff, and turn it off. Incomptent maybe, but they aren't stupid enough to think that people would just stop using google images when they get blocked and use msn instead.
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On the other hand, caterpillars turn into butterflies...
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or slashdot editors
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So is Microsoft.
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Nice!
That may be something worth submitting to wikiquote.
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Any sufficiently advanced malice is indistinguishable from incompetence.
Corollary to the corollary:
Any malice distinguishable from incompetence is insufficiently advanced.
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I am less than happy about Microsoft monitoring my surfing habits under the guise of phishing prevention. I wonder how long before that information will be used against me by the MPAA or the RIAA, since Microsoft is in bed with those associations already.
The real conspiracy theory (Score:5, Funny)
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Your Search (Score:5, Funny)
Lynx [wikipedia.org],
Cheetahs [wikipedia.org],
Pumas [wikipedia.org],
Jaguars [wikipedia.org],
Panthers [wikipedia.org],
Tigers [wikipedia.org],
Leopards [wikipedia.org]
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Can anyone reproduce the problem? (Score:2, Insightful)
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How could they? Surely no /. editor uses Windows.
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Read the FAQ - the editors do no fact-checking on stories at all. They're more concerned with getting the stories posted as quickly as possible (even when they're months old...)
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And even when they've already been posted recently.
PEBKAC (Score:5, Insightful)
Remember folks: FUD, it's not just from MS anymore!
Seriously I wish people would stop with the crap but I really wish
Upon further investigation (Score:2)
Users should understand how Internet works?! (Score:2)
Now everybody needs to educate grandma not only what phishing is, but also how innocent material can be blocked by an association with phishing sites.
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Re:Users should understand how Internet works?! (Score:5, Funny)
True (Score:2)
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Personally I think it's rubbish, and that maybe nobody should spew FUD, but, hey...
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Meanwhile a bigger conspiracy is afoot (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Meanwhile a bigger conspiracy is afoot (Score:5, Informative)
No. According to MSDN, only URLs that are not common are sent to the Microsoft server for verification. This list of not-common URLs sit on your machine, and even then only the base of the URL is sent to Microsoft for analysis.
Here's the blurb from MSDN [msdn.com]:
But thanks for spreading the FUD.
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But like every good conspiracy theory, it could be immunized even against publishing of this information: Who knows if the published algorithm really matches the one implemented in IE7? After all,
Even more... (Score:2)
Yes, but make sure to check at the router level - who knows if IE7 patches the OS so that you can't find out if it's connecting to the phishing filtering server.
Better yet, check at the molecular level, you never know if MS might have a partnership with all the router manufacturers...
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They can track every non-main stream website you go to. Which is, you know, probably EXACTLY WHAT THEY* WANT. This is just pre-filtering and data-massaging built into the computer being spied upon. Sounds really convinient really.
* CIA, NSA, FBI or whoever.
which user is warned about (Score:2)
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And what percentage of the computer using population has no idea what is meant by the warning? But if it is getting sent to M$ it must be OK. M$ could warn "by clicking on this you authorize Microsoft to enable you to take advantage of t
Maybe Bill Fears Kittens? (Score:2)
I mean, after all, he may have been permanently traumatized by the Bonsai Kitten hoax [wikipedia.org].
What does NOT work fine... (Score:2, Interesting)
That isn't real, but this is... (Score:2, Offtopic)
Apparently, to disable information bar prompting, you have to *enable* automatic prompting for several different types of prompts in the security settings property sheet. I tried one, an
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Anyone know how to turn it off on firefox? I'm running firefox on ppc linux.. so I'm constantly getting harrassed about flash missing. Make it stop!
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Editors on crack? (Score:2)
Slow news day... (Score:4, Insightful)
Look, somebody probably reported the Google Images header as a phishing website. Microsoft have probably since removed it from their phishing database. I'm sure they're refining the phishing technology so that websites require multiple reports before they enter the phishing database as we speak.
But you kiddies can release all the conspiracy stories you want.
Reminds me... (Score:2)
cute little kittens (Score:2)
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Slashdot special (Score:4, Insightful)
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Right Taco, NOW (Score:2, Funny)
I mean, it takes 39 people to say the same thing, thankfully I can't test it.
Possibility? (Score:2)
Works here (Score:2)
cannot be reproduced (Score:2)
How the hell does this stuff make it onto Slashdot.
Can't duplicate (Score:2)
do not worry (Score:2)
The alternative explanation would be that Microsoft is unscrupulous software monopoly that could not compete honestly for a single day of its stinking existence, but, hay, that would be totally untrue, right?
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Maybe its the Paralells VM ?????????? (Score:2)
The Slashdot Story Fast-Track System (Score:2)
2) Slashdot engine automatically posts
3) you know the rest.
I've been reading slashdot for so very long now, it's almost like an addiction, but i think it's finally time i erased my bookmark.
I have to admit though i'm pleased that, at the current time, the kneejerk reaction so typical of the slashdot community hasn't fired yet.
It's not 1998 anymore. Microsoft software isn't perfect, but neither is anything else created by human han
The editor DID check this (Score:2)
As for why it doesn't work now, that's obvious, as soon as the mistake was spotted Microsoft would have fixed it. They'd have got sued by Google if they were incorrectly labelled as a phishing site and it turned out MS weren't going to rectify this.
I'm sure we'll
What are you searching for pictures of? (Score:2)
I searched on pictures of rabbits (no reason - a random word) and got pictures of little bunnies. Perhaps you were searching for something more adult...
As other people here were saying, perhaps you hit on a site(s) that MS had just had reported as a suspect site. Alternatively, perhaps MS had a fault on a server somewhere. That last one may seem like a long shot. I mean, everyone here can attest to their reliability!
Someone doesn't have a klew (Score:2)
Saw that yesterday for the first time ever... (Score:2)
Probably related to multiple phishing links being promulgated by links from Google. Something they'll surely look to fix as this will happen with MSN and other sites as they get more usage (Google's always the big one.)
Adorable kittens, without so many god damn cats (Score:2)
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Re:Works great here (Score:4, Interesting)
Just turn off phishing search. (Score:2)
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This is why when it asks you if you want anti-phishing support turned on, you say no, only when requested :D
Whether or not microsoft use the data they could potentially be collecting is one thing, but providing this service without you sending data to their servers (in the form of a query, from your IP address), is impossible.
One could argue that all of the cddb databases out there are tracking your music listening habits, but no one seems to be up in arms about that :D
I'm no ms-fanboy, but
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XP Pro/IE7 final.