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IE7 Blocking Google Image Search?
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.
Nothing to see here move on...
This is due to the frame stuff it does?
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I just tried it. Works fine.
Seems to work well (properly) for me
Just tried the above link in Vista RC 2. I don't get any warnings, but the IE7 in Vista might be an older version.
Internet Explorer 7 version: 7.0.5744.16384
Vista RC1 and XP Pro SP2. Not able to duplicate. Methinks PEBKAC.
If you believe everything you read, you'd better not read. - Japanese proverb
I don't see any strange behavior... perhaps the poster has some spyware problem?
FUD.
Works great on IE7, no problem at all.
I have no IE7 myself, but I guest his heuristic is somewhat flawed, and image search is tryiing to cheat the user in some way... that and of course, no one on the IE7 beta testing was searching images on google, thats kind of sad. Poor bastards :D
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Using IE7 with XP Pro, fully updated. No problem at all.
Maybe you should ask politely on some IE7 forums before trying to incite a controvery at slashdot? Just a thought.
OMG KITTENS!!!!!
So, basically any page with frames containing other pages is evil now? Thank you, MS.
:wq
explained by incompetence.
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.
Guys, can't you see it, this article is a cunning plot by the Evil Empire to produce 3,000 /. posts saying "IE7 is fine"? How devious can you get? Stick to Firefox, and then you'll never get suckered like this!
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Perhaps MS is afraid of all felines.
Lynx,
Cheetahs,
Pumas,
Jaguars,
Panthers,
Tigers,
Leopards
-tgpo
Did the editors confirm this before accepting the story? Perhaps the submitter's computer has spyware which redirects web requests to another site!
Stop spreading FUD. You are supposed to be above this Slashdot.
O Lawd Was Dat Sum Massive Dud
When you access Google cached pages on Opera's latest weekly builds it will alert you that the framed and duplicated page is suspicious.
I don't see how IE and Opera can make exceptions just for Google. What about any other site which uses that type of code? This anti-phishing tech is unnecessary and annoying for people who have already learned how not to be scammed for the last 10 years when we were left out in the cold on the matter.
That's Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair for those that haven't see the acronym. I have XP SP2 here and IE7 is in a basically default state since I use FF. Tried GIS and explicitly asked it to check and it reports "this is not a phishing webstie". It says that both for the main GIS page and after I did an actual search.
/. would not post things like this without verification.
Remember folks: FUD, it's not just from MS anymore!
Seriously I wish people would stop with the crap but I really wish
...the URL and query string and hence everything you are Googling for being passed to Microsoft's servers. Think of all those Google searches (and the following immediate clicks) Microsoft could extrapolate and use to improve their own search engine...
(I know I know, replying to your own posts is bad form) my bet is that Google returned an image that was on a suspected phishing site. When you click on an image, Google actually sends you to that site. Thus if it's a phishing site, well that'd set IE7 off. That would be the browser operating as it should, so I still stand by my original diagnosis. The user is the problem, they fail to understand how the Internet works and ascribe it to MS conspiracy.
I mean, after all, he may have been permanently traumatized by the Bonsai Kitten hoax.
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I can't believe this was posted without a screenshot! Sheesh! What does NOT work fine and IS worthy of Slashdot is the fact that most MS apps open websites up in IE regardless of the fact that Firefox is my default browser.
- John
http://www.jabcreations.com/
Someone had to say it.
Undetectable Steganography? Yep, there's an app fo
STFU RTFM
After reading this article, I used IE7 to go to a website that wanted to install the Flash 9 ActiveX control (actually, I went to several) and then got tired of it asking me to install one when I didn't want to every time I hit certain web pages, so I looked in help to see how to turn it off. Now here's the confusing part:
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, and indeed, I was no longer prompted. But why do you *enable* automatic prompting to *disable* prompts from the information bar? This option doesn't *appear* (so far) to actually enable another form of prompting (and if it did, it would be really annoying - you should just be able to say no once and never be bothered again. Sites shouldn't harass you into installing plug-ins you don't want.
The design of IE has never made much sense to me.
Works fine. I would have expected the slashdot editors to at least verify a fake story like this before posting it.
I don't know what TFA is talking about - it works fine for me.
This is a slow news day isn't it? Still, kitten searches are all good.
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.
Big deal. Just another opportunity to bash Microsoft with no evidence or clue.
How about a moderation of -1 pedantic.
just tried this under IE7, XP MCE, Phising Filter turned On. No such problem encountered for multiple image searches. couldn't duplicate the problem
Methinks the Microsoft Marketing Department is getting crafty.
Wanna fight ? Bend over, stick your head up your ass, and fight for air.
A good example when someone who has found anything in IE7 gets a headlight... even without checking. Either due to frames or not replicable by anyone but the author.. still.. OMG... its an IE7 error.. so it's got to be posted! Talk about conspiracy theries
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The only purpose of this article is to see how many fucking morons actually use that pos browser IE7 here on /.
You know all the users with IE7, you can block their IP's at will ;)
I mean, it takes 39 people to say the same thing, thankfully I can't test it.
liqbase
I'm running IE7 (not a beta or RC) on XP Pro SP2 and have no problems at all.
There are no uninteresting things. There are only uninterested people.
Is it possible that you went to click on an image, but instead of sending you an image, it sent you re-directed HTML? You can all point and laugh at me for admitting this if you like, but this often happens to me with porn searches. You get this really nice thumbnail that claims to be a good res, then ya click on it, and instead of being met with a nice high-res image you're met with a web page saying "Gimme a credit card number!" Is it possible that IE7 has protection against this? Is this considered an exploit or a form of phishing?
Has anybody tested porn image searching with IE7? (Ha!)
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XP SP2. No problems. *yawn*
Never, ever lose a file again. Ever.
... maybe it really WAS a phishing website that he thought was The Google. Maybe, just maybe IE7 actually protected him in his search for adorable pussies.
...anonymous reader is most likely Microsoft employee making this post to encourage slashdot users to install IE7
Once they installed IE7, Microsoft will tell everyone that their installbase has just grown by 2% due to Slashdot readers installing IE7 en masse !
i have the phishing filter on, ie7 installed, xpsp2, i ran that search, and many others... i get the images as anyone should.
i think this is just some blind bashing to try and get on slashdot.
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How the hell does this stuff make it onto Slashdot.
Submitter could have had some kind of spyware/adware/malware/etc. that does something or other with hijacking Google Image Search pages on the client computer and perhaps that was what IE7 was catching?
It works fine for me with XP Pro SP2 (fully patched) with IE7 with the phishing filter turned on. I even tried invoking the phishing filter explicitly and also had no problems.
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.
//TODO: Think of witty sig statement
for the accuracy of the stories submitted to Slashdot. It is this kind of careless posting what has kept me from subscribing.
Ah! But the OP's original search was for fluffy kitten porn, which linked him to a phishing site.
Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.
...Sure, I'm on Firefox, but it works on that. I just came for the kittens.
HeliXx - Now with extra Ooo.
The same goes for the Windows Update page!
This is obviously a proxy/firewall issue, not IE7.
Why this made Slashdot, I have no idea.
IE7, native XP SP2
This happens to me as well. Is there a fix or a reason?
What extension do you use? FasterFox, certain greasemonkey scripts, and others have been known to have memory leaks.
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I wonder how long it took him to find another word that was also blocked and ended up with 'adorable'.
"Surely these pr0n sites couldn't really be phising! Let's try some other words!"
Heh.
Remember, the phishing filter that IE uses is "live". If a new site becomes a phishing site, MS can address it on their servers immediately. If a site is mislabeled, MS can fix that immediately. There's no definitions being downloaded, it's all server side.
Hey Etan this is the MPAA. We would like to know what is that BitTorrent Client doing there in your computer.
It is all FUD. Some of the images of "adorable kittens" were from phishing sites (BTW, now all my personal info is fished out, since I your search in Firefox), and Microsoft took good care of you.
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?
I do not believe in karma. "Funny"=-6. Do good and forbid evil. Yours, Oft-Offtopic Flamebaiting Troll.
If what you guys say is true and anti-phishing measures in IE are verified by MS's servers then it means that for every link you click MS could be tracking you.
I wouldn't put it past them. Couldn't care less, I'm running moz.
How many /.'ers have now been duped into 'OMG I HAVE TO TRY THAT' unwittingly giving IE7 a test drive where they never would have considered it otherwise?
Nice 'press release,' MS. But your conspiracy to create a false conspiracy has been detected.
It has nothing to do with Google. What a retarded story.
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LOL maybe its paralells VM and Not IE> D'Oh He is running IE 7 in Paralells on a Mac. hmm
OMG Ponies!!! with Glitter!!!! I miss Pink
With a big fat dialog, that says "This URL will be sent to Microsoft". With option to cancel. With no mandatory option to check all URLs (unless you say that you want to). In other words, yeah, if you say "Do that automatically" it will do exactly what you asked it to. Duh
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Or should we say 10 now?
Works fine on IE 3 and Windows ME.
I posted this at like 11 this morning. At the time, I was searching for something completely innocuous (and no, not adorable kittens; that search is mostly to prove that it's not porn sites or anything), and I got the phishing warning. This was for every image thumbnail, no matter the search or the domain. I imagine someone reported GIS as a phishing website, and Microsoft automatically blocked it. This scares me more not so much in a Google vs. Microsoft way, but in a "does Microsoft even verify this stuff before blocking it?" way. I would have posted a more detailed story with screenshots, but I had to get to the house of God. Kind of surprised no one else experienced it (or that the story was even posted; it really must be a slow news day). It must have been a real brief amount of time it was broken.
Also, I guess I should have used a tag around the evil conspiracy line.
P.P.S First slashdot story submitted, hence the entire Anonymous Coward thing.
Well, here's mine:e moryep9.png
http://img329.imageshack.us/my.php?image=firefoxm
I run Adblock Plus and some other assorted addons.
(yes, I run Firefox while I play WoW - on the same slomo computer)
I have an even worse one for you:
No extensions. Memory and disk cache disabled. Only a single blank page remains. No navigation options. Using up almost 300MB actual ram.
http://ergh.org/misc/ffbloat.png
I just tried the link in the article and I'm not experiencing any of those problems.
Although, I probably need to download IE7 to eliminate all possible variables if I anted to verify it myself, but I don't want Microsoft Joke on my computer.....
Knowing Google's lust for data collection, the Soviet Union is still alive and well inside the psyche of Sergey Brin....
Disable it, problem solved.
Why would you purposely use IE anyway?
This only proves why I dont read Slashdot. Not only does the statement not hold any value, it was clearly not tested by the moderator or any person commenting in favor of it. This just further makes my case that Slashdot is simply biased, why else wouldnt we have heard anything about the zero day FireFox flaw
How did a non-verifiable, non-reproducible post with such a huge accusation make it onto slashdot? Especially as an anonymous posting? Such an accusation wouldn't even survive a few minutes in any newsgroup, but it makes it onto slashdot without anyone actually trying this? I'd really like to know which interesting, truthful, non-FUD story didn't make it onto slashdot because of this bs posting?
1) Post unsubstantiated story regarding any Microsoft product malfunctioning.
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 hands.
Bye, community. It's been.. well, i'm not sure how to properly describe it.
Fear not, if it's cat pix you need, I have the cure. http://catsinsinks.com/ And just stick to FireFox and we won't worry about IE7. Besides, you don't want Microsoft to know about our cat fetish... ... it seems I've already said too much.
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 see the occaisional embarassing moment in both IE7 and Firefox with these new features.
So, this article was pointless, but it does appear the editor did check!
I also recall doing Google searches when I first started running Vista a couple of months ago. Even the Google Toolbar works. Don't know if it's FUD or PEBCAK or a legitimate glitch with the original poster.
Every time a kitten dies, God makes a Catholic masturbate!
...the conspiracy theory stuff about MS is so 20th century. Get with the times.
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!
I'll see your Constitution and raise you a Queen.
They really are! And IE7 isn't worried about her flopping tits doing any phishing! No problems with adorable kittens, either. Was the OP Steve Jobs?
-Rich
XP Pro SP2, IE 7 betas 2 & 3 flagged Engadget as a phishing site. I was so annoyed that I turned off the phishing filter.
Maybe IE 7 is trying to warn me about sites that would tempt me to unnecessarily blow dough on bleeding edge gadgets.
IE 7 isn't available for Mac OS X.
I ran IE 7 under Windows 2003 Server Standard, did a Google image search for kitten, and clicked away.
No phishing here nor was it flagged as such.
Bryan
More baseless anti-Microsoft bashing. Works fine here, XPSP2 x64.
I get this behavior under IE7, Win XP Pro, SP2, Parallels, Mac OS X.
I know it does not take much to be an editor around here. But, geez, can't you learn to write, kdawg? Such as, "I get this behavior under IE7 on Win XP Pro SP2 running inside the Parallels virtual machines on Mac OS X." Listing off a bunch of crap with commas might be good if the readership consisted of spreadsheet interpreters. But it doesn't.
Not only did they fux0r google image search, when I hit Alt-F4 in Firefox it closes the window!
:P
I tried in all of my open source apps, same thing! Alt-F4 closes them!!!!! Damn u M$!!!!!
OMG OMG OMG!!!!
Running IE7 on WinVista build 5744, and I don't get any phishing error messages...
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Tried with Win XP SP 2, IE 7 (Final).
Guns don't kill people; Physics kills people! - John Lithgow as Dick Solomon on Third Rock From The Sun
A-aha. Although not yet moderated funny I imagine it will be soon? Every Slashdot story has a question mark, even when not a question?
Maybe it's the (low)tech equvalent of the antipodean rising inflection on a sentance as a mark of angling for acceptance?
In short, their two most legendary military figures are:
A circus midget that not only got his ass handed to him but got exiled and a girl in her early teens who heard voices.
Don't tell me to get a life. I'm a gamer; I have LOTS of lives!
I think Slashdot just jumped the shark :-)
Works OK for me.
Submitter has a bad case of EEOC (Equipment Exceeds Operators Capabilities).
this is a microsoft conspiracy to get more people to download IE7!
Something like images.google.com.au will set it off, because putting the full name of a website before an unrelated hostname is a common phishing tactic. images.google.com will be fine. This isn't a Microsoft conspiracy, it's just sloppy coding.
I've turned down better looking girls when I was falling down drunk. I mean, she's okay, but would anybody really pay to see a girl with a body and face that are at best average (and I'm being kind).
Maybe she has a great personality?
...been using it at work to find images on occasion for a looooong time now and never had this happen.
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.)
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I posted a story a week ago about Firefox 2.0 reporting its own default start-up page as a phishing operation. And did they take it? No!
/. has a glaring anti-Firefox agenda.
Sometimes I think
You know, there is a difference between trolling and pointing out the flaws in your reasoning. Just saying.
Microsoft PM #1: So, anyone got any ideas how do we get slashdot users to install IE7? Microsoft PM #2: Especially when they're so eager to prove that something's wrong with it Microsoft PM #1: That gives me an idea... Seriously, how many of you installed IE7 just to repro this report?
Reminds me of when some other such database (which, as it turns out, powered our corporate firewall) flagged a big chunk of MS's website as drug-related IIRC.
A polar bear is a cartesian bear after a coordinate transform.
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 never/mostly never crashes) to problems that instantly go away when someone other than they are using the machine. Weird.
damaged by dogma
SafeSearch is off Results 1 - 20 of about 780 for cute pussies. (0.05 seconds)
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- - You can't take something off the Internet! That's like trying to take pee out of a swimming pool.
True, just look at this...
The AACS key is NOT 0xF606EEFD628B1CA427BEA93A9CA9773F
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...
The AACS key is NOT 0xF606EEFD628B1CA427BEA93A9CA9773F
I was going to try it, but the poster obviously has the only copy of IE7 for Mac OSX that was ever released...
I didn't have any problems at all viewing the page and the thumbnails. That's a shame though. Google websites & projects should be consider as phising sites and they should be blocked. Google started by only recording your web searches, now they can access your email, your IM conversations even your local files if you use they dodgy indexing service.
kdawson:
Because this 'auto-phishing' feature is part of IE7, it has absolutely nothing to do with what version of Windows you use and even less to do with _how_ you run Windows on your precious little Mac. Get over yourself for owning a Mac, you're not the only one.
My guess is, someone pulled open a phishing site whilst browsing google images, and IE somehow managed to block the address in the address bar, as opposed to the address of the evil frame, thus leaving image drop-in urls all marked as 'phishing'. My guess is someone at MS saw this (be it this specific post, or someone else mentioned it), and rectified the issue.
This whitelist mechanism is very interesting. How large is the default whitelist? 1000 domains? 1,000,000 domains? 10 domains? How is the whitelist maintained? Does the user control it? Or do Windows Updates affect it? Can spyware manipulate it?
I wonder what percentage of web queries land outside the whitelist. Does it report its own statistics?
MS is touting their OpenSearch compliance. Are there also OpenAnti-Phishing whitelisting services? You know... so you can pick to whom you want to report all your browsing patterns. Or does it automatically go to MS, and only MS? Can you choose Google's service, for instance?
Are you kidding me? "not coming up" with images of beautiful miss Scarlet??? Man, now THAT is serious trouble! he he
This is just another postulate to my theorem. My theorem is: Microsoft=Evil. Get me some more postulates and I can prove it even more :)