'Most dangerous' celebs to search for online

Beauregard T. Shagnasty · External Since: Aug 01, 2004 Posts: 498

A little humour this morning...

<http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/08/24/celebrity.computer.virus.biel/index.html>

"(CNN) -- Be cautious if you plan to Bing Jessica Biel or Google Brad
Pitt. A new report says you might get a virus." More...

So I suppose surfing for Naked Grannies is ok?

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ASCII · External Since: Mar 01, 2009 Posts: 32

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FromTheRafters · External Since: Feb 16, 2009 Posts: 26

"ASCII" <me.RemoveThis@privacy.net> wrote in message
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> Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
>>A little humour this morning...
>>
>><http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/08/24/celebrity.computer.virus.biel/index.html>
>>
>>"(CNN) -- Be cautious if you plan to Bing Jessica Biel or Google Brad
>>Pitt. A new report says you might get a virus." More...
>>
>>So I suppose surfing for Naked Grannies is ok?
>
> Normally don't use 'bing', but fired it, up loaded her in it, and with
> javascript enabled went to see what all the fuss is about, and...
> nothing happened here. I clicked through several of the results but
> still didn't encounter anything out of the ordinary. Does this mean I
> was so stealthily infected I have yet to realize it? <g>

Try it again with the "naked grannies" string.

ASCII · External Since: Mar 01, 2009 Posts: 32

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Beauregard T. Shagnasty · External Since: Aug 01, 2004 Posts: 498

ASCII wrote:

> FromTheRafters wrote:
>>"ASCII" wrote:
>>> Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
>>>> A little humour this morning...
>>>>
>>>> <http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/08/24/celebrity.computer.virus.biel/index.html>
>>>>
>>>> "(CNN) -- Be cautious if you plan to Bing Jessica Biel or Google
>>>> Brad Pitt. A new report says you might get a virus." More...
>>>>
>>>> So I suppose surfing for Naked Grannies is ok?
>>>
>>> Normally don't use 'bing', but fired it, up loaded her in it, and
>>> with javascript enabled went to see what all the fuss is about,
>>> and... nothing happened here. I clicked through several of the
>>> results but still didn't encounter anything out of the ordinary.
>>> Does this mean I was so stealthily infected I have yet to realize
>>> it? <g>
>>
>> Try it again with the "naked grannies" string.
>
> Although that wasn't part of the original precautionary post,

'Twas. "So I suppose surfing for Naked Grannies is ok?"

> I tried it anyway and haven't seen so many wrinkles in a while. Could
> you indicate which link I might explore to expedite the hunt for
> malware, or are you just toking the same bong as nagshasty?

http://bong.com/ ? Oh, you meant http://BING.com/ eh?

Note once again the first line of the original post.

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-Mac viruses: maybe a hundred, and also mostly in the lab
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Virus Guy · External Since: Aug 05, 2005 Posts: 407

"Beauregard T. Shagnasty" wrote:

> (CNN) -- Be cautious if you plan to Bing Jessica Biel or Google
> Brad Pitt. A new report says you might get a virus.

Why are search engines not capable of detecting malware when they are
searching these sites, and when found either not include them in their
search results, or flag them as being viral?

FromTheRafters · External Since: Feb 16, 2009 Posts: 26

"Virus Guy" <Virus.DeleteThis@Guy.com> wrote in message
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> "Beauregard T. Shagnasty" wrote:
>
>> (CNN) -- Be cautious if you plan to Bing Jessica Biel or Google
>> Brad Pitt. A new report says you might get a virus.
>
> Why are search engines not capable of detecting malware when they are
> searching these sites, and when found either not include them in their
> search results, or flag them as being viral?

That's not their job (censorship), but some do warn the user about some
of their results.

Beauregard T. Shagnasty · External Since: Aug 01, 2004 Posts: 498

FromTheRafters wrote:

> "Virus Guy" <Virus.DeleteThis@Guy.com> wrote:
>> "Beauregard T. Shagnasty" wrote:
>>> {Humour.]
>>> (CNN) -- Be cautious if you plan to Bing Jessica Biel or Google Brad
>>> Pitt. A new report says you might get a virus.
>>
>> Why are search engines not capable of detecting malware when they
>> are searching these sites, and when found either not include them in
>> their search results, or flag them as being viral?
>
> That's not their job (censorship), but some do warn the user about
> some of their results.

...and since a lot of the malware isn't even seen unless one has
JavaScript (or ActiveX) enabled - which SEs don't - they won't ever see
it.

--
-bts
-Friends don't let friends drive Windows

FromTheRafters · External Since: Feb 16, 2009 Posts: 26

"Beauregard T. Shagnasty" <a.nony.mous DeleteThis @example.invalid> wrote in message
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> FromTheRafters wrote:
>
>> "Virus Guy" <Virus DeleteThis @Guy.com> wrote:
>>> "Beauregard T. Shagnasty" wrote:
>>>> {Humour.]
>>>> (CNN) -- Be cautious if you plan to Bing Jessica Biel or Google
>>>> Brad
>>>> Pitt. A new report says you might get a virus.
>>>
>>> Why are search engines not capable of detecting malware when they
>>> are searching these sites, and when found either not include them in
>>> their search results, or flag them as being viral?
>>
>> That's not their job (censorship), but some do warn the user about
>> some of their results.
>
> ..and since a lot of the malware isn't even seen unless one has
> JavaScript (or ActiveX) enabled - which SEs don't - they won't ever
> see
> it.

It would slow searches considerably if they had to scan for malware in
the results before displaying them. The one time I noticed the warning,
it was trying to warn me away from a very informative full disclosure
text file containing a snippet of malicious script. I wasn't going to
let some warning stop me Surprised

D so I went there anyway. It is a good
thing that it wasn't hidden from me (censorship) by the netnanny powers
that be.