WTF is the too much all caps about, crazy? Besides who cares about the DRep - it is a POS.

Besides who cares about the DRep - it is a POS.

#1 | Posted by grumpy_too at 2010-03-09 11:29 AM

If the Drudge Report had never existed, we would not have a Retort today. So be thankfull to Matt Drudge. I am sure Rogers is.

#1 - Ahhh, the "POS" expert has weighed in - I reposted it AS WAS! Take it up with Matt Drudge.

Where else, but here and there can one find out little tidbits of info like this:

"Every day, this elected leader is called a dictator here, and we just accept it, and accept it" said Penn, winner of two Best Actor Academy Awards. "And this is mainstream media, who should -- truly, there should be a bar by which one goes to prison for these kinds of lies."

Sean Penn speaking about Chavez.

At least they didn't claim you could catch the H1N1 pandemic by hitting the site.

Or that Black Barbie sold for less at Wal-mart than White Barbie:

How can the Drudge Report give Congress viruses but not everyone else? It is among the most popular site on the internet. If this was such a problem, it would be more wide spread. Perhaps it is all the gay porn sites they are looking at.

I hope they also reminded congress to keep their hands out of the cookie jar...

No - I didn't find this at the REPort, but it is newsworthy:

Does this seem a totalitarian measure to anyone else?

Does this seem a totalitarian measure to anyone else?

Totalitarian would entail shutting down their servers or blocking access. You know... like the Chinese do. For all the bitching the right wing does about tyranny and totalitarianism, they don't seem to have a fucking clue what those words mean.

It's called the DDS virus.

will the same someday be said about the RETORT...

I mean you libs were such BIG PUSSIES that you couldnt even make it on oreillys internet segment...

#12 | Posted by ZombieHunter - this could be a precursor and you know it! This sham of an administration has tried to shut other media outlets out and failed - how long before they don't fail?

For all the bitching the right wing does about tyranny and totalitarianism, they don't seem to have a fucking clue what those words mean.

Just another hysteria du jour for the right.

Link to the story:

Hahah! Demonize your enemy..Alinsky rule #?.

Republicans first and only response to the Obama presidency...yeah, we've seen it.

Go see Matt Drudge and you may end up with a nasty virus?

Bwa haha haha haha haha!

Out of all the good reasons Spud has heard to avoid reading the Drudge Report that one has definitely got to be the funniest.

Lawls! ^_^

Be Well.

Matt Drudge has moved away from posting phony right, left news stories in favor of real news.
He even has a permenant link to Alex Jones's site www.infowars.com on his front page.

I guess the senate is getting worried the sheeple might wake up.

Matt Drudge has moved away from posting phony right, left news stories in favor of real news.

Matt Drudge is a RW hack who posts news that the RW on American politics want emphasized.

But because he now has a link to Alex Jones he gets a pass from Jeffn?

Presumably because AJ = "Real News" in Jeffn's deluded mind.

LOL. Talk about yer sheeple.

Be Well.

This isn't a censorship issue. It's a computer security issue. If Matt Drudge's third-party ad servers are distributing malware in the ads, that's a big problem he needs to take care of. Instead, he's using this as an excuse to drum up publicity for himself.

Wasn't this story already posted?

i thought this was onion or something...

"Wasn't this story already posted?"

In the earlier story though it was just the opinion of the Senate Sargeant at Arms, this story provides more proof and makes the liars and morons that claimed the Dem. controlled Senate was trying to attack the first Amendment look like what we know they are.

So be thankfull to Matt Drudge. I am sure Rogers is.

I appreciate the fact that Matt Drudge is an online news pioneer who created a successful site format the Retort adopted. Beyond that let's not go crazy.

"I go there when I can't get into my own Web site because mine's so popular." -- Matt Drudge on the Drudge Retort

#29 | Posted by acade

No one would have ever heard of you or this website if it wasn't for Matt Drudge.

"I go there when I can't get into my own Web site because mine's so popular." -- Matt Drudge on the Drudge Retort.

LOL. He couldn't have possibly said that.

You're joking, right?

New York Times back in 1999:

No one would have ever heard of you or this website if it wasn't for Matt Drudge.

I will cry myself to sleep tonight. I am the Corey Haim of online journalism.

It's hilarious how the left gets so bothered by M.Drudge.

Just a reminder: Drudge writes none of his material. He simply re-posts news stories from other sources, even Lib sources like A.P.

Really now! What's so bad about Drudge? Is it that he refuses to hide BIG stories? The NYT does this all the time, and folks are fine with it. I mean, who wants to read stories that fracture our leftist world view? Who wants to read stories which show reality, rather than the "spin" on reality?

Yep, when a guy like Drudge who writes nothing on his page, reports the news, the cockroaches squirm!

Almost got that malware infection myself a couple of days ago. It's vicious, folks. Not kidding.

First sign of trouble is a web site you never heard of and then a dialog box that asks if you want to run some so-called security scan. It's fake. Your choices on the scan are OK or CANCEL. Don't click either of them, because they both lead to the same result - an infection that takes over your computer and very quickly renders it useless. Instead, if you see that prompt, press CTRL+ALT+DELETE, and TASK MANAGER will pop up, then click END TASK to close your browser.

Assuming it's the same one, I got it once before and had to completely reformat my PC. Real malware-removal applications wouldn't even get rid of it.

Seems to affect Internet Explorer more than Firefox.

Matt Drudge isn't the only one using scareware.

NORTON, for example. My experience with Norton last week was identical in every way with the one descibed in this article.

Buy at your own risk or, preferably, don't buy or download Norton at all.

#34 - You can't be serious. He's a master of spin. He chooses his stories to constantly give a right-wing, paranoid, real-or-imagined-scandal slant, and if you can't see that, you have blinders on. He's also obsessed with celebrity gossip, but that's another matter.

Sure, real news ends up on the Drudge Report, so it's not completely devoid of truth. But Matt Drudge has a clear agenda. Which is perfectly fine, but be honest and acknowledge it.

#36 - Twinpac, I must say my Norton virus/malware blocker did nothing to stop the malware. I contacted Norton's customer service, and they wanted to charge me $199 to clean it up. I chewed out the Indian dude on the line for trying to charge me to fix something their program should have caught. This accomplished nothing of course but made me feel better...

"He's also obsessed with celebrity gossip, but that's another matter."

Yeah, I never understood that. Very Perez of him.

I am the Corey Haim of online journalism.

Sans the Tiger Beat cover, of course.

Be Well.

#34 - You can't be serious. He's a master of spin. He chooses his stories to constantly give a right-wing, paranoid, real-or-imagined-scandal slant, and if you can't see that, you have blinders on. He's also obsessed with celebrity gossip, but that's another matter.

Sure, real news ends up on the Drudge Report, so it's not completely devoid of truth. But Matt Drudge has a clear agenda. Which is perfectly fine, but be honest and acknowledge it.

#37 | Posted by cbob

If so, are you equally bothered when the MSM does it? or the NYTimes? Or are these objective reporting for you?

#39 - oops, I think I just giggled!

#41 - The Huffington Post is a better lefty parallel than the MSM that you're attempting to broadbrush. HuffPo even has the inane celebrity obsession. I don't think the NY Times is as biased as either HuffPo or Drudge.

"Drudge Report Accused of Spreading Malware"

That's the first time I've ever heard Fox News described as "malware," but it fits.

That's the first time I've ever heard Fox News described as "malware," but it fits.

^_^

LOL.

FF.

Mary cracks Spud up!

Be Well.

#30 | Posted by STIRSUMUP at 2010-03-10 09:38 AM |

I came here because Neil Rogers suggested it as a news site in 2002.

I came here because Neil Rogers suggested it as a news site in 2002.

Spud was a Crueller who linked over to see wot else the blog-god had wrought.

Be Well.

Spud was a Crueller...

And JFK was a jelly doughnut

Funny how the Left just piss and moan about Drudge but never address the stories content. Kill the messenger. Now the Drudge Retard is just a place where the lefties can sit around and circle jerk eachother trying to defend the communistic tendencies of Barry,Harry and Nancy and bash everyone else.

Drudge Report Accused of Spreading Malware

I don't know about malware, but I have noticed that lately the site is kind jumpy. You are reading a headline and it jerks up and down. It's really annoying. Also, the idiot insists on linking to the FT site which causes me to have to shut down my IE8.

Spud was a Crueller...

And JFK was a jelly doughnut

#48 | Posted by goatman

French Crueller

The act of reaming/stretching a sphincter and "glazing" it with crme de l'homme.

I will cry myself to sleep tonight. I am the Corey Haim of online journalism.

Let me get this straight.

The Government dosen't have Norton 2010.

I guess we're fuked if we have to depend on them to protect us from a cyber attack.

It's hilarious how the left gets so bothered by M.Drudge.
Just a reminder: Drudge writes none of his material. He simply re-posts news stories from other sources, even Lib sources like A.P.
Really now! What's so bad about Drudge? Is it that he refuses to hide BIG stories? The NYT does this all the time, and folks are fine with it. I mean, who wants to read stories that fracture our leftist world view? Who wants to read stories which show reality, rather than the "spin" on reality?
Yep, when a guy like Drudge who writes nothing on his page, reports the news, the cockroaches squirm!
#34 | Posted by Sabbatai at 2010-03-10 09:50 AM

Sure - you delightedly squirm from anyone posting fake opinions and faked news.

Matt Drudge has posted crap "editorials" invented for his shitty site - like his rewriting Gore Vidals opinion of the Patriot Acts to claim "tarring and feathering were in order". He was the first to post Robert Novak's exposure of Valarie Plame. He's a sham, nothing more.

I will never go to Matthews POS site - he doesn't even have the nerve to host an open-forum blog. I do not see many similarities at all between the Report and the Retort.

This isn't a censorship issue. It's a computer security issue. If Matt Drudge's third-party ad servers are distributing malware in the ads, that's a big problem he needs to take care of. Instead, he's using this as an excuse to drum up publicity for himself.

#23 | Posted by rcade

worth repeating...It is a security issue... and sloppy IT management by Drudge. Many agencies in the The US Government are aware and have banned access to the Drudge Report until he cleans up his act.

The Drudge Retort is still allowed...for now.

This isn't a censorship issue. It's a computer security issue. If Matt Drudge's third-party ad servers are distributing malware in the ads, that's a big problem he needs to take care of. Instead, he's using this as an excuse to drum up publicity for himself.
#23 | Posted by rcade

worth repeating...It is a security issue... and sloppy IT management by Drudge. Many agencies in the The US Government are aware and have banned access to the Drudge Report until he cleans up his act.
The Drudge Retort is still allowed...for now.
#55 | Posted by donnerboy at 2010-03-10 04:28 PM

They would have an excruciating time conflating this site with that garbage that passes for Congressional updates. But your paranoia is well-founded - the "malware" is more than likely an intelligence agency faux pas and what they are best at is compounding problems..

Hahah! Demonize your enemy..Alinsky rule #?.

#18 | Posted by American1st

Alinsky Rule #13

So Rcade --are other sites like DR set up with anti malware software or something to keep the crap off the server?

I mean many of the stories that are posted here are the same stories posted on Drudge.

It must be a constant problem??

Drudge Report is set as my home page.

I wonder if that's where I caught that virus on my computer about three weeks ago which made my computer freeze and the (((blue screen of death))) to pop up. Seriously.

Set me back about $150 to have my documents/files and other programs saved by the boys in India (DELL) and reinstall a clean version of Windows XP. Don't even mention the aggravation of HOURS on the telephone all weekend long even with Dell using their "Remote Assistance." A dang nightmare.

How can the Drudge Report give Congress viruses but not everyone else

Very easily done I'm afraid... By executing a Java script for certain IP Address Sub Nets.. piece o cake really.

I do not see many similarities at all between the Report and the Retort.

I have to agree... Most of the news here was on drudgereport.com yesterday or the day before. Nothing in common at all.

Yep, when a guy like Drudge who writes nothing on his page, .......

#34 | Posted by Sabbatai at 2010-03-10 09:50 AM | Reply | Flag

Wrong.

He does write articles for his page.

Seems you don't even know his format for which you defend. Typical. Let me guess.....you worship Glenda Beck too?

I wonder if that's where I caught that virus on my computer about three weeks ago which made my computer freeze and the (((blue screen of death))) to pop up. Seriously.

No you didn't get that from drudgereport.com... It's all over Merrill Lynch and everywhere else.. It is easily removed with a root Kit killer like Gmer and Process Explorer Root repeal... They hit you up for a lot of Doe for that?

Takes five minutes to kill in safe mode...

Been doing it over and over for three weeks now.

You Know Where You Got That Virus.... Nasty Man You...

It's real simple.... If you go to any web page and a virus Alert pops up Do NOT CLICK OK!!!!!!!!!!! To Remove the Virus....

Clicking OK Installs the Virus!!!!!!!!!

Just shut down your computer without clicking on anything Period

If you have to turn it off at the switch do so.... Never Click OK for Any reason

Stop using Internet Explorer and switch to firefox.

Silly Drudgers, Capitol Hill is more likely to get a virus from all the gay porn sites they are tied into than from little ol Matt!!!

Reid and Pelosi tell their minions to stay away from Drudge, because there may be a virus lurking. (a virus that no one else seems to have encountered) If that doesn't smack of desparation, I don't know what does.

What is more interesting is the frequency of visits to Drudge from House and Senate computers:

The [Drudge Report] was seen 149,967 times since March 1st from users at senate.gov and 244,347 times at house.gov. [There were] 10,825 visits from the White House, eop.gov," the Drudge Report wrote.

The war is over. Drudge won it.

I like this guy....

Hey RCADE... Do they ever come here? We would love to know so we can leave messages for our favorite people in DC...

Ah... Probably not....

My, the left and this leftists administration certainly is afraid of freedom of speech.

Maybe they would be more comfortable living in Cuba. I would be happy to pay their airfare.

Drudge Report is set as my home page.
I wonder if that's where I caught that virus on my computer about three weeks ago which made my computer freeze and the (((blue screen of death))) to pop up. Seriously.
Set me back about $150 to have my documents/files and other programs saved by the boys in India (DELL) and reinstall a clean version of Windows XP. Don't even mention the aggravation of HOURS on the telephone all weekend long even with Dell using their "Remote Assistance." A dang nightmare.
#59 | Posted by CalifChris at 2010-03-10 06:04 PM

It's possible that was generated by cached internet data, depending upon what you have locked down or not other software may be "interactable" - like windows media player which can then download a "codec" or "plugin" of badness without requesting your permission.

There are a lot of automated things that are generally safe, but we are always going to encounter attempts to circumvent security both out of legitimate process management and malicious content.

It's also possible that hardware can cause the blue screen, as well as Windows itself becoming somehow corrupted. The blue error screen may indicate the address or symptom involved which can help considerably.

If you don't already browse with Firefox it seems more dependable than Internet Explorer.

Honestly, I highly doubt whatever this "virus" is propagated without traffic indicating something is afoot. It seems intentional.

Adblock Pro get it use it

If you don't already browse with Firefox it seems more dependable than Internet Explorer.

#70 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2010-03-11 02:37

Thanks for your take on it, RedLightRobot. I'm probably going to have to get rid of IE soon. Youtube and a few other sites keep plastering warnings they're going to stop accommodating IE's browser -- or at least make their sites less accessable if you continue to use it.

I've got Google Chrome installed on my Windows XP as another browser option but not too keen on it. Maybe it's just a case of getting use to it more? But like you said, it might be best if I use Mozilla's Firefox. I had checked out Firefox before, but was just so comfortable with IE's browser I kept going back.

When I got that virus (6 trojans!) which took down my computer within 2 days, I'd only been using the free versios of Spy-Bot and AVG so guess it was my fault for not having a good anti-virus/malware program running on my computer. After that happened I installed Norton 2010 so it should keep out the bad guys -- I hope.

Say, did you catch A1's thread the other day when he put out a "geek SOS" to rescue his fried computer? Over 200 posts! A number of guys on here chipped in their tech expertise and helped him out. I wasn't around for the exact ending but I think A1 got it up and running okay. Hope someone saved the link to that thread. It can be tossed as a life perserver in case the same thing happens to someone else on here.

Well, it's getting late so will say g'night.

So Rcade --are other sites like DR set up with anti malware software or something to keep the crap off the server?

The issue is whether your ad service checks ads thoroughly or not. I've never had a problem with Google or BlogAds. Matt Drudge uses several different ad providers. One of them must not be checking well enough.