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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. No problems in Vista by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    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

  2. Can't duplicate by KillerBob · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Vista RC1 and XP Pro SP2. Not able to duplicate. Methinks PEBKAC.

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  3. Meanwhile a bigger conspiracy is afoot by baadger · · Score: 4, Interesting

    ...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...

    1. Re:Meanwhile a bigger conspiracy is afoot by cheater512 · · Score: 2, Interesting

      How long until someone spreads a worm which adds pishing websites to the whitelist?

  4. What does NOT work fine... by JAB+Creations · · Score: 2, Interesting

    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.

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  5. Re:Works great here by Overly+Critical+Guy · · Score: 3, Interesting

    As usual, this story is posted by our good friend kdawson, the editor who thought the Enlightenment icon was a state of being.

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  6. So true! by deesine · · Score: 2, Interesting
    I've watched the phenomena happen live. Like many of us, I've tutored beginning and novice users on specific apps and general OS tasks. Maybe it's just the run of numbers, but some people, in spite of my instructions, will want to click on the button that gets them the furthest from their goal.

    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.

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