Senate Staffers Warned to Stay Clear of Drudge Report

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It is rather curious and suspicious at the same time that Drudge Report was (along with another one) specifically targeted at this critical time period during Congress attempt to pass a bogus and unconstitutional (process) health care bill. If Drudge Report is *THAT* problematic then I certainly have not heard anything about it elsewhere except coming out of Congress at a very, very curious time.

In short, smells more like a bogus claim than something that's problematic or even electronically dangerous.
 
kokonut said:
It is rather curious and suspicious at the same time that Drudge Report was (along with another one) specifically targeted at this critical time period during Congress attempt to pass a bogus and unconstitutional (process) health care bill. If Drudge Report is *THAT* problematic then I certainly have not heard anything about it elsewhere except coming out of Congress at a very, very curious time.

In short, smells more like a bogus claim than something that's problematic or even electronically dangerous.
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Wag the Dog

Maybe the US will flatten a Pharmaceuticals warehouse too
 
Sounds like the Democruds don't want people to be reading anything critical of their party just like Jehovah's Witnesses are told not to read anything critical of the Watchtower, just read their magazines and that's all they'll need to know.

Just another form of thought control....

Yiz
 
Vienna, VA (PRWEB) March 11, 2010 -- Intermarkets, Inc. announces that recent allegations that malicious software, such as computer viruses or “malware,” is being distributed through the advertisements on the Drudge Report are false. Intermarkets is the advertising sales management firm for DrudgeReport.com, and manages all aspects of advertising on the site.

“All of the ads we run are continuously scanned for viruses, and we immediately investigated and found no viruses or malware in any of the ads we are running on the Drudge Report or our other sites,” said Will Trommelen, Intermarkets’ Chief Operating Officer. “We did not receive any complaints from visitors to any of our client sites,” he continued. “We also immediately responded to official inquiries regarding the matter, providing the results of our investigation.”

Advertisements delivered on the Drudge Report and other Intermarkets publisher sites are continuously monitored for malicious software. Additionally, the ads can be checked again if there is a complaint about the ads.

Intermarkets is one of the nation’s leading and oldest online advertising sales management companies, and serves more than three billion online advertisements every month. For more than a decade, the company has been a leader in the industry in providing services and support to Web site publishers. The company utilizes a number of tools, protocols, and security measures to ensure that the advertisements running on the sites in the company’s portfolio are free from malicious software.

The non-partisan independent company takes security concerns very seriously and has a policy to immediately respond to inquiries in these matters, utilizing the firm’s round-the-clock team of experts and third-party services.
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“Malicious software is usually spread through sophisticated means, and it can be very difficult to trace the source,” Trommelen said. “Using our technology tools, we’re able to effectively and efficiently research the advertisements,” he concluded. “The best action to take is to always keep your Internet security software up-to-date, no matter which sites you visit.”
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Intermarkets Refutes Allegations of Viruses on the Drudge Report

What does it mean now?

Nancy Pelosi and the rest of her ilk got BUSTED!

:laugh2:

Nice lie in an attempt to save their health care bill and dabble in a bit of censorship control to try and control Congress members somehow.

:slap:

Time to impeach Nancy Pelosi, Reid....and...and.... :hmm:
 
uh.... what's this unhealthy obsession with Drudge Report? It prompted me to do some digging... and now I know why.

:roll:
 
I already did. Consider what Intermarkets just said.

“All of the ads we run are continuously scanned for viruses, and we immediately investigated and found no viruses or malware in any of the ads we are running on the Drudge Report or our other sites,”
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There are malwares that do get triggered whenever one visits a reputable and safe website. Just because that link shows a flash malware in front of a Drudge Report page does not mean it came from Drudge Report. And it was interesting how that article quickly came up so soon after the attempted censorship by Dem leaders to control senators' actions. Did you even bother to note the caption below that screenshot??

A CNET reader grabbed this screenshot of what looks like a fake antivirus warning that popped up on Drudge Report.
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A reader sent it in. An anonymous reader. No way of verifying. For all we know it could be a photoshopped version that was screenshot-ted and sent to CNET.

Yeah. Put all your faith in that one, Souggy.
 
Jiro said:
uh.... what's this unhealthy obsession with Drudge Report? It prompted me to do some digging... and now I know why.
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It's called a discussion forum. Not sure what you meant by "unhealthy obsession." It's a news aggregator site.
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kokonut said:
I already did. Consider what Intermarkets just said.



There are malwares that do get triggered whenever one visits a reputable and safe website. Just because that link shows a flash malware in front of a Drudge Report page does not mean it came from Drudge Report. And it was interesting how that article quickly came up so soon after the attempted censorship by Dem leaders to control senators' actions. Did you even bother to note the caption below that screenshot??



A reader sent it in. An anonymous reader. No way of verifying. For all we know it could be a photoshopped version that was screenshot-ted and sent to CNET.

Yeah. Put all your faith in that one, Souggy.
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You have no idea how the Internet community works, do you?
 
souggy said:
You have no idea how the Internet community works, do you?
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Can you verify the reader who sent in a screenshot, that could've been photoshopped, what supposedly appears to be a malware flash in front of a Drudge Report page implying that it came from a Drudge Report? Are you basing your argument on a screenshot from an anonymous reader who sent it in the day after it was announced that Congress members should stay away from Drudge Report with no way of verifying if it is actually was the case?
 
kokonut said:
It is rather curious and suspicious at the same time that Drudge Report was (along with another one) specifically targeted at this critical time period during Congress attempt to pass a bogus and unconstitutional (process) health care bill. If Drudge Report is *THAT* problematic then I certainly have not heard anything about it elsewhere except coming out of Congress at a very, very curious time.

In short, smells more like a bogus claim than something that's problematic or even electronically dangerous.
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Please support, with fact and citation, that unconstitutional accusation. Or are you simply parroting something you heard someone else say again?
 
kokonut said:
I already did. Consider what Intermarkets just said.



A reader sent it in. An anonymous reader. No way of verifying. For all we know it could be a photoshopped version that was screenshot-ted and sent to CNET.
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It can be photoshopped but I've gotten warnings within the Chrome browser saying that the legitimate website may be unsafe due to malwares/spywares ads but gave me a choice to continue or not.

Face it, the Drudge Report is amateur - a news feed - and I doubt it has staff to check for quality ads.. it's likely to accept ads with poor discretion.
 
netrox said:
It can be photoshopped but I've gotten warnings within the Chrome browser saying that the legitimate website may be unsafe due to malwares/spywares ads but gave me a choice to continue or not.

Face it, the Drudge Report is amateur - a news feed - and I doubt it has staff to check for quality ads.. it's likely to accept ads with poor discretion.
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So, you admit there is no way of verifying whether the screenshot was real or fake? No way to verify, if real, that the pop up came directly from Drudge Report's ad despite Intermarkets' insistent that it's not the case?

Amateur site? Pretty droll of you to say that. Let's see if you can build a following to your website where you can get 28,000,000 hits in 24 hours, or 775,000,000 hits in 31 days or 8,000,000,000 (billion) hits in a year. It started in 1996 and it wasn't long til it made news with the first to report on Bill Clinton's affair with Lewinsky. And the rest is history.
 
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