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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...
I just tried it. Works fine.
Seems to work well (properly) for me
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
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!
Virtually serving coffee
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!
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 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/
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.
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
http://www.automatiq.se
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
... 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.
As usual, this story is posted by our good friend kdawson, the editor who thought the Enlightenment icon was a state of being.
"Sufferin' succotash."
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.
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.
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