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

    Seems to work well (properly) for me

  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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  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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    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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  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. 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.

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

    Or the "10D/0t" problem.

    Indeed.

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  10. 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.