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story teller
#1 Posted : Monday, February 21, 2011 11:47:41 PM
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Is it just me or does the standard online newspaper contain harmful viruses? This is the second time my computer has "downloaded" a virus from the site.

Anybody else notice this?
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masukuma
#2 Posted : Tuesday, February 22, 2011 5:06:18 AM
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use proper browsers - sahau Internet explorer. plus, soma gazetti sio nonsense :)
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tmatekwa
#3 Posted : Tuesday, February 22, 2011 6:19:46 AM
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masukuma wrote:
use proper browsers - sahau Internet explorer. plus, soma gazetti sio nonsense :)

would you care to elaborate?
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tmatekwa
#4 Posted : Tuesday, February 22, 2011 6:24:50 AM
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story teller wrote:
Is it just me or does the standard online newspaper contain harmful viruses? This is the second time my computer has "downloaded" a virus from the site.

Anybody else notice this?

what stuff were you download? with comodo firewall and panda cloud anti virus, I fear nothing.
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story teller
#5 Posted : Tuesday, February 22, 2011 6:41:05 AM
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tmatekwa wrote:
story teller wrote:
Is it just me or does the standard online newspaper contain harmful viruses? This is the second time my computer has "downloaded" a virus from the site.

Anybody else notice this?

what stuff were you download? with comodo firewall and panda cloud anti virus, I fear nothing.


Well, this happened to me at work where we use mcafee virus scan enterprise. I opened the eaststandard and a trojan virus landed on my computer! Thank God it was destroyed. A few days ago, on my home computer while browsing the standard, the same Trojan virus popped up but was nipped in the bud by my Kaspersky's antivirus. I mean seriously, what is going on with the standard?
Its getting to a point where i am getting paranoid browsing standard online edition.

I use google chrome and Mozilla firefox on both computers.
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masukuma
#6 Posted : Tuesday, February 22, 2011 6:54:19 AM
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tmatekwa wrote:
masukuma wrote:
use proper browsers - sahau Internet explorer. plus, soma gazetti sio nonsense :)

would you care to elaborate?

i think its self explanatory - there are unsecure browsers and there are secure browsers. IE is the former.
- there are newspapers and there is trash in paper. the standard is the later.
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KenyanLyrics
#7 Posted : Tuesday, February 22, 2011 7:59:12 AM
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Yes, this is true. EA Standard's site security is quite low. They are a regular target for crackers. If you access them via Google you will have seen the Google Site Warning on their search results several times
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story teller
#8 Posted : Tuesday, February 22, 2011 9:26:04 AM
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masukuma wrote:
tmatekwa wrote:
masukuma wrote:
use proper browsers - sahau Internet explorer. plus, soma gazetti sio nonsense :)

would you care to elaborate?

i think its self explanatory - there are unsecure browsers and there are secure browsers. IE is the former.
- there are newspapers and there is trash in paper. the standard is the later.


@masukuma, i use google chrome and mozilla firefox as my browsers of choice. The Daily Nation is my newspaper of choice for content and balanced reporting, but i like to browse all the dailies plus business daily africa and the east african.

I honestly think that some disgruntled employee(s) is maliciously introducing viruses (knowingly or unconciously) into their code.

@Kenyanlyrics, i agree with you that the site's security is definitely low. Why the paper would allow this is simply mind boggling.
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Njung'e
#9 Posted : Tuesday, February 22, 2011 9:32:03 AM
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The online edition is not good enough for my PC (This site may harm your computer) and the hard copy is not good enough for my ass.
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story teller
#10 Posted : Tuesday, February 22, 2011 9:36:13 AM
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Njung'e wrote:
The online edition is not good enough for my PC (This site may harm your computer) and the hard copy is not good enough for my ass.


@Njunge, what to do? Some of us are in the diaspora and cannot buy the paper from the street vendor. We get our daily dose of news online.
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