Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

Hot air and ill-informed banter

A last alliance of elves and men. also pet photos.

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

“More of this”, i said to the dog.

Bark louder, little dog.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

You can’t love your country only when you win.

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

Consistently wrong since 2002

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

“But what about the lurkers?”

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

Presidents are not kings, and Plaintiff is not President.

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

I like you, you’re my kind of trouble.

If you are still in the GOP, you are an extremist.

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  3. 3.

    Jim Crozier

    John,

    Pretty much everything I do on the site today triggers a malware warning from my protection software. Clicking on comments to try and leave you this message triggered an alert.

  6. 6.

    Loneoak

    I don’t know about malware, but I was seeing a rather racist ad for alluring and mysterious Thai women. I didn’t click so I don’t if it was for sex workers or mail order ‘brides’. It’s gone now.

  7. 7.

    Crashman06

    Does this mean no more Christian Philipina mail order bride ads? That would make me a sad panda.

  8. 8.

    John Cole

    Could you all, for once, work with me, and restrict commentary on this thread to issues regarding malware, and not your dyspeptic personal preferences about the nature of the f-ing ads?

  9. 9.

    Michael

    Yesterday, I was having an odd lag when trying to scroll down the front page, particularly past some pics and vids on one of the stories. Maybe there was some jumpy code there.

  10. 10.

    MikeJ

    I wonder if the google alert will stay up until they rescan, even if you kill the offender.

    If you’re on a safe platform, you might pull up the site with all the bells and whistles enabled, and actually see who has the link to the offending site. It was mentioned what the site was in the previous thread, somewhere in china (a .cn domain), iirc.

  12. 12.

    Llelldorin

    I’m still seeing the warning from Safari, but I suspect that Safari simply checks Google to see if the site is listed as having malware. There may just be some lag time involved.

  13. 13.

    whiskey

    I wonder if the malware is a reason for the site freezing up my phone for the last two days – loads and loads and then freezes and I have to restart the phone.

  15. 15.

    Dennis-SGMM

    Chrome is still reporting:

    The website at http://www.balloon-juice.com contains elements from the site klikvs.cn, which appears to host malware – software that can hurt your computer or otherwise operate without your consent.

  19. 19.

    Palooza

    Finally! this site has been crashing my browser for the past day and a half…. all my browsers. Seems like it tried to take over my webcam….

  21. 21.

    jake 4 that 1

    I’m not showing anything, but the computer I’m on couldn’t detect an ICBM if you shoved it up its exhaust port.

    p.s. Thank goodness the Pam Anderson ad is gone! [snerk]

  23. 23.

    different church lady

    Mac Safari is giving me malware warnings every time I hit the frontpage. I’ll try it from Firefox on a different computer and see what I get.

  27. 27.

    jnfr

    I’m not getting any malware notices or anything on this site setting off my security software, and I run lots of security software that warns me about everything. I’m using Firefox, and set my NoScript to allow all on this page.

  28. 28.

    different church lady

    @John Cole: It just stopped giving me the malware warnings.

    Houston, we appear to have a cause-and-effect relationship.

  30. 30.

    Leelee for Obama

    Firefox here, no issues….did a virus and spyware scan on Norton, nothing. Clean out IE temp files. What is up here?

  31. 31.

    gnomedad

    I just turned off Adblock and reloaded. No warnings from McAfee SiteAdvisor or Web of Trust on Firefox. But I never got any warnings previously.

  32. 32.

    bvac

    Malware in an ad? I guess if it were a flash ad. Can’t you disable those in project wonderful?

  35. 35.

    Persia

    Now I realize why the site was running so slow the past two days.

    And apparently I need to update my antivirus when I get home. Eww.

  36. 36.

    Warren Terra

    Yeah, about five minutes ago I tried to refresh a Balloon Juice page and Norton Antivirus wouldn’t let me – it blocked some malware and the site wouldn’t load further. It’s loaded now (obviously) so I assume it was one of the PW ads you took down, which is a shame as the concept there is a good one.

    I blame Laura W!

  37. 37.

    John Cole

    You all are killing me. I ask you what time it is and you tell me how to build a clock.

    ARE YOU STILL GETTING MALWARE THREATS OR NOT? Answer in the next thread.

  41. 41.

    Thomas J. Raef

    Google diagnostics now shows this:

    What is the current listing status for http://www.balloon-juice.com?

    This site is not currently listed as suspicious.

    What happened when Google visited this site?

    Of the 136 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 3 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. The last time Google visited this site was on 2009-07-16, and the last time suspicious content was found on this site was on 2009-07-16.
    Malicious software includes 1 scripting exploit(s). Successful infection resulted in an average of 4 new process(es) on the target machine.

    Malicious software is hosted on 1 domain(s), including klikvs.cn/.

    So it appearst that the .js file you mentioned earlier may have been the problem – and is now resolved.

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