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Brought to you by the people who occupy wall street.

Oct 01, 2011 21:14

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societal breakdown, food shortages, healthcare, austerity measures, global financial trainwreck of 2007-?, reaganomics, homelessness, corporate profits, 52 week lows, bailouts, libertarianism, unemployment, 'capitalism', class war, 50 state slump, civil unrest, ayn rand, 2012 presidential election

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head's up cieldumort October 2 2011, 04:33:20 UTC

Just got this message from Norton upon linking from that site to occupywallstreet.org

Malicious Web Site Blocked
You attempted to access:

https://occupywallst.org/

This is a known malicious web site. It is recommended that you do NOT visit this site. The detailed report explains the security risks on this site.

Re: head's up nebris October 2 2011, 05:13:52 UTC

I didn't get anything from my AVG. I wonder if Norton's been 'politically compromised?

~M~

Re: head's up cieldumort October 2 2011, 05:20:46 UTC

Perhaps. But all but one of the 30+ Norton user "reviews" of the site are all done by sock puppets (and probably the same one person), which doesn't give me any confidence. The concern is over drive-by downloading.

Drive-by Downloads
A drive-by download is computer code that takes advantage of a software bug in a Web browser to make it do something that the attacker wants-such as run malicious code, crash the browser, or read data from the computer. Software bugs that are open to browser attacks are also known as vulnerabilities.

I'll let you know if I find out more.

Drive-by Downloads nebris October 2 2011, 05:27:44 UTC

The site does say it's on 'emergency read mode only' and gave me a '404' when I tried to comment.

~M~

Re: Drive-by Downloads cieldumort October 2 2011, 05:42:10 UTC

interesting

Tweeted this.... nebris October 2 2011, 06:22:12 UTC

occupywallst.org appears to be under attack #OccupyWallStreet http://the-recession.livejournal.com/843532.html?thread=3612940#t3612940

~M~

..that's my 'Twitter icon' for LJ btw ;)

Re: Tweeted this.... cieldumort October 2 2011, 20:34:47 UTC

Big cat. Really BIG glasses! lol

Re: head's up badnewswade October 3 2011, 17:51:16 UTC

Norton is a piece of crap. Use a free one like AVG or Avast!

corporate software is notorious for being dogshit, sure, but fucking hell. I didn't expect them to blatantly censor political sites.

Re: head's up cieldumort October 3 2011, 21:48:57 UTC

I would suspect you might be right, if not for the fact that the positive reviews on Norton defending the site were obviously from a sock puppet with like 30 accounts. I'll continue checking the site from time to time, but there is no need, really, to go to it at all when we have occupytogether.org instead.

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