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IE7 Blocking Google Image Search?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the play-nicely-now dept.

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.

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  1. And your point is? by blanchae · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nothing to see here move on...

    1. Re:And your point is? by ejdmoo · · Score: 5, Funny

      Can you say anything if you just ask?

    2. Re:And your point is? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Tagged: PEBCAK (Problem Exists Between Chair And Keyboard)

    3. Re:And your point is? by Moofie · · Score: 2, Funny

      I prefer the acronym "PICNIC" - Problem In Chair, Not In Computer.

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  2. I think not by maxrate · · Score: 5, Funny

    Seems to work well (properly) for me

    1. Re:I think not by Wornstrom · · Score: 2, Funny

      Try it yourself: make sure automatic phishing detection is turned on and do an (adorable) image search; click on one of the result thumbnails.
      I wonder how many slashdotters this "AC" will trick into installing IE7...

  3. OMG CUTE by zdzichu · · Score: 4, Funny

    OMG KITTENS!!!!!

    So, basically any page with frames containing other pages is evil now? Thank you, MS.

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    :wq
  4. The real conspiracy theory by melonman · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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  5. Your Search by tgpo · · Score: 5, Funny

    Perhaps MS is afraid of all felines.

    Lynx,
    Cheetahs,
    Pumas,
    Jaguars,
    Panthers,
    Tigers,
    Leopards

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    -tgpo
    1. Re:Your Search by tgpo · · Score: 4, Funny
      What, no pussy?
      If you plan on staying at slashdot you should get use to that saying.
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      -tgpo
    2. Re:Your Search by ettlz · · Score: 2, Funny

      Well, given it's in response to an OS X-centric post, that assertion is not necessarily so...

  6. Re:Strange by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Same here. I spent hours last night looking for pictures of the adorable Scarlett Johansen, and had no problem doing so. Only problem I had was getting things to come up.

  7. Re:Never ascribe to malice that which can be by pegr · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yet sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice...

  8. Right Taco, NOW by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 2, Funny

    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.

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  9. Well, maybe... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... 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.

  10. Re:Can't duplicate by monkeydo · · Score: 5, Funny

    Or the "10D/0t" problem.

    Indeed.

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    The only thing more annoying than a Libertarian is an (un|mis)informed Libertarian
  11. Re:Users should understand how Internet works?! by Tony+Hoyle · · Score: 4, Funny

    kittens and puppies are *never* innocent. They're responsible for more than you know... if we drop our guard then they'll enslave the world.

  12. ...honest to goodness... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    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?

  13. Re:So true! by shinerweb · · Score: 2, Funny

    Not wrong there...

    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....