Senate Staffers Warned to Stay Clear of Drudge Report

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The malwares are coming through the third-party advertisements on Drudge Report. Not the first time this has happened though.

So... I don't see what's wrong with warning someone to take caution while browsing some particular websites if malware activities are being discovered on them.
 
wtf

I enjoy reading Drudge Report several times everyday. It reported the death of Princess Di faster than other major news networks and broke the Clinton sex scandal story first.
 
Banjo said:
The malwares are coming through the third-party advertisements on Drudge Report. Not the first time this has happened though.

So... I don't see what's wrong with warning someone to take caution while browsing some particular websites if malware activities are being discovered on them.
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I have not gotten any malwares or spywares from the DR site since I checked it for the first time.
 
It doesn't mean you shouldn't trust Drudge Report, it's just the third-party advertisements that need to be taken care. When you grant advertisers the permission to advertise on your website, they are usually able to implement any codes, even harmful ones into them.
 
Banjo said:
It doesn't mean you shouldn't trust Drudge Report, it's just the third-party advertisements that need to be taken care. When you grant advertisers the permission to advertise on your website, they are usually able to implement any codes, even harmful ones into them.
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Right. I just didn't realize that there's the 3rd party advertisements in DR. I just want to thank you for tellin' it. I sometime went there and read. :)
 
Sen. Inhofe: Basis for Senate's Ban on Drudge Report Was Bogus, We Encourage People to Visit Drudge

(CNSNews.com) - “We would encourage people to continue to use Drudge. That’s a great source,” Sen. Jim Inhofe (R.-Okla.) told CNSNews.com Tuesday after his staff on the Environment and Public Works Committee received an email informing them that the Senate Sergeant at Arms believed the Drudge Report and whitepages.com had been responsible for infecting Senate computers with viruses and advising Senate personnel not to visit the Web sites.

When CNSNews.com asked Inhofe if there was any evidence that a virus had gotten into Senate computers as a result of people visiting Drudge, Inhofe said: “None, whatsoever.” Inhofe is the ranking Republican member of the Environment and Public Works Committee.

The Drudge Report itself posted a report on Tuesday debunking the Senate Sergeant at Arms’ claim and stating that the Web site had clocked almost 30 million page views on Monday without a single reader complaining via email that the site had transmitted a virus.

The office of the Sergeant at Arms did not respond to inquiries from CNSNews.com, but backed down from its claim about the Drudge Report on late Tuesday afternoon when it sent out a follow-up email warning about viruses that made no mention of Drudge.
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Sen. Inhofe said it did not surprise him that someone on the left was trying to stop Senate staff from reading Drudge “because Drudge comes out with really good stuff and we want them to access the Drudge Report. We’re on the Drudge Report about half the time.”

“Every time there is something really noticeable and that somebody needs to cover, Drudge is right there,” said Inhofe. “I suspect somebody was trying to make it look as if there’s a virus there to discourage people from using Drudge. Then, somehow, I guess someone in the Capitol got a hold of it and said, yes, we are advising you not to use it.

“Just today, they backed down, so I think that maybe we were right all the time and that there’s not a problem, and we would encourage people to continue to use Drudge,” he said. “That’s a great source.”

A source at the Environment and Public Works Committee told CNSNews.com that other Senate offices had received the e-mail with the warning not to visit the Drudge Report.

Sen. Inhofe said he believed there were some liberals who would prefer that people not see some of the information disseminated by Drudge.
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Yep. As I said earlier. Desperation is more like it. Though it backfired on them this time.

CNSNews.com - Sen. Inhofe: Basis for Senate's Ban on Drudge Report Was Bogus, We Encourage People to Visit Drudge
 
Drudge Virus Warning Blasted as Latest Free Speech Incursion

The Drudge warning was just the latest sign of what critics see as a flirtation with censorship.

Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, and Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., introduced a bill last year that would allow the president to take control of the Internet in the case of a "cybersecurity emergency." The Obama administration recently released details of a plan, drafted under the Bush administration, to secure the Internet from a range of threats.

The Obama administration also has made scolding the media, and dissuading others from following cable television news and blogs, somewhat of a routine during his presidency.

Just last month, Obama urged Democratic senators to "turn off" their televisions and extract themselves from the political jibber-jabber of the Internet.

"You know what I think would actually make a difference? ... If everybody here turned off your CNN, your Fox, your -- just turn off the TV, MSNBC, blogs and just go talk to folks out there instead of being in this echo chamber where the topic is constantly politics," Obama said.

That was after the administration spent several weeks last fall criticizing Fox News as a fake news outlet and encouraging its competitors to marginalize the network. Last September, in the middle of a big health care reform push, Obama used a string of major network and cable interviews to scold the media for playing up "rude" and "outrageous" political comments. That was in the wake of the "You lie!" outburst by Republican Rep. Joe Wilson during the president's health care address to Congress.
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FOXNews.com - Drudge Virus Warning Blasted as Latest Free Speech Incursion

Sounds like somebody's desperate over there.
 
Sen. Jim Inhofe is NOT a tech guy and has NO idea what he's talking about.

I read the comments on CNSnews and laugh at their enormous ignorance about viruses... some think that firewall is all they need to protect themselves from viruses!! LOL!

It shows a lot about their ignorance.
 
I'm sure that'll prevent them from viewing it. If it's that bad then they can simply prevent them from accessing Drudge Report site but it's not even close to bad. I go that site many times and none of my virus detection software ever picked up anything from it. I don't click on the ads. I read the reports and click on the links and even that has never produced any virus or malwares.

Again, sounds much like a ballyhoo attempt to stiffle Senators from reading important updates and breaking news about their own Congress.

What's more, they can still read using their smartphone to access Drudge Report.
 
The site was seen 149,967 times since March 1st from users at senate.gov and 244,347 times at house.gov. [10,825 visits from the White House, eop.gov]" the Drudge Report wrote.
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Yeah, remember seeing that one. Good to put those numbers here for context. Congress members certainly seem to be worried there. Nancy Pelosi sure knows how to try and put them in the dark.
 
kokonut said:
I'm sure that'll prevent them from viewing it. If it's that bad then they can simply prevent them from accessing Drudge Report site but it's not even close to bad. I go that site many times and none of my virus detection software ever picked up anything from it. I don't click on the ads. I read the reports and click on the links and even that has never produced any virus or malwares.

Again, sounds much like a ballyhoo attempt to stiffle Senators from reading important updates and breaking news about their own Congress.

What's more, they can still read using their smartphone to access Drudge Report.
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You are SO wrong.

Virtually all viruses are very specific to platforms. You cannot have a Mac virus infecting a Windows platform or a Windows infecting a Mac OSX. Smartphone OS's don't have the same underlying architecture as desktop operating systems so viruses written for desktop operating systems cannot infect mobile operating systems. The risk of infecting a smartphone is extremely low at this time.

Antivirus software does NOT detect all viruses. I can write a virus and send it to you and your program will NOT know it. It only detects what's listed in the definition list.

The security issue pertaining to Drudge is that the ad was deceiving telling people that their computers were infected. That has caused many people to download their programs which are actually spywares. The ads aren't technically a virus but is designed to dupe people like you into believing that your computer is infected and download their program to get rid of it when in fact, they're getting infected in the process with more spywares/malwares.
 
netrox said:
You are SO wrong.

Virtually all viruses are very specific to platforms. You cannot have a Mac virus infecting a Windows platform or a Windows infecting a Mac OSX. Smartphone OS's don't have the same underlying architecture as desktop operating systems so viruses written for desktop operating systems cannot infect mobile operating systems. The risk of infecting a smartphone is extremely low at this time.

Antivirus software does NOT detect all viruses. I can write a virus and send it to you and your program will NOT know it. It only detects what's listed in the definition list.

The security issue pertaining to Drudge is that the ad was deceiving telling people that their computers were infected. That has caused many people to download their programs which are actually spywares. The ads aren't technically a virus but is designed to dupe people like you into believing that your computer is infected and download their program to get rid of it when in fact, they're getting infected in the process with more spywares/malwares.
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Im not worried about you. You have hard time programming.
 
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