A rather long and complex issue has surfaced that CTH has specific knowledge of.
It’s a bigger issue than appears on the surface. However, to avoid a lengthy distraction -which will consume unnecessary energy- the short version is:
Until the election is over, if you travel the internet into news sites, political sites, and content containing political discussion therein, clear your browser and cache frequently throughout the day.
SHORT SUMMARY: We have become aware there is a specific, intentional and ongoing “malvertising” effort. That is, hidden and targeted malware embedded within political advertising (by Team Clinton) that is intended to disrupt targeted users based on their web browsing history.
If you have seen a Clinton ad anywhere you are probably a ‘carrier‘. It doesn’t take any action on your part to gain the malware virus other than to be on a site where the malvertising is active. Once you carry the malware it travels with you in an effort to disrupt your navigation on targeted web sites/web pages.
CTH is one of the targeted sites, I’m sure there are many more, including popular social media platforms. It would not surprise me to discover the majority of Pro-Trump sites are the primary targets. (More on that at another date/time).
If you are having navigation issues you have probably been exposed. Word Press, the platform we use, estimates that 20% of CTH readers are carriers (it’s probably much more). However, the good news is (hopefully) you can rid yourself of the issue by deleting your cache and/or cookies frequently.
If you are having site navigation issues, try clearing your browser history, cookies and especially the cache.
Remember, there are trillions of dollars at stake. There is nothing the opposition will not do to retain power. Truth and sunlight is a risk.
~ Sundance
Fight on, Sundance! The hour of our first victory is close at hand. Then the real battle can begin…
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Good Grief !
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Wow. Thank you for immediately telling us.
If you don’t know how to delete the cache etc of your specific browser, just look it up on the net.
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this is one reason i run linux. don’t have to worry about this kind of junk.
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That’s not true at all … this is a browser based issue and is not OS dependent. Personally, I utilize a host of utilities like Ghostery (https://www.ghostery.com/) to guard against this sort of thing.
Also be aware, this isn’t limited to PC’s either … same any mobile device is susceptible to the very types of malware, and in the case of smartphones, it is not limited to browsers either.
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I had his problem at work today and thought it was tied to the problem from last week. The page kept jumping to the top and was shrunk from left to right. I did the fix you recommended and the problem went away. Gees I just want to keep up with what’s going on.
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I noticed as I got on just a few minutes ago the homepage was fine but it wouldn’t load any of the articles… it just sat there spinning (I’m on an iPhone using Safari). I exited out of Safari, closed the app, and then reopened it… everything works fine now! Just one more reason to use DuckDuckGo I guess.
Thanks for the heads up! I am going to clear my history, cache and cookies as soon as I’m done here just to be sure.
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Startpage.com is a great privacy search engine. I find it has better results than duckduckgo.
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Thanks TruthMatters123! I will definitely check it out! 🙂
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If you want to be Google free, go with duck duck go. Starpage is “enhanced” by google. Duck is “enhanced” by Yahoo. Bush league but Schmidt-less, which should be part of everyone’s goal at this point.
Goal Review: Zuckerberg free; Schmidt free.
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Illinois Warrior,
I was having a heck of a time with my I-Phone a few weeks ago to the point I took it down to my provider and said, please help. I too was deleting my cache, cookies, and it worked for a bit, and it reverted back to the same problems pretty quickly. It got to the point that I couldn’t figure out what would work, hence the road trip to my provider.
I never had too problems at CTH, but anywhere else political, and then my phone would go all crazy. This is what they showed me to do through Safari.
Settings
Scroll down to Safari and click,
Scroll to the very bottom and click ‘Advanced’
Click edit on the screen it took you too. Delete all of them. Please know that when you do, you need to resign in to WordPress, Disquis and so forth.
I was also told to go to a website where you can ask any question on any phone, I-Pad etc. Unfortunately, I’m at the airport and away from my notes. I will try to find it tomorrow when I will be home.
Please try this if you start having problems again. I used to do it multiple times a day, now I only do it when I remember. It seems to have solved the problem over time, at least I hope so.
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Thank you – good to know and I’ve just cleared my iPad and phone.
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I am so inept when it comes to gadgets and computers, I’m just happy I could help. I hope it works like it did for me.
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Thank you!
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I’m a fan of CCleaner.
Good heads up, I expect the next few days will be, as old Arte Johnson used to say, “Verrrrry Interesting…”
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🕵-ware
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Thanks 3X1..!
Hmmmm….Very Interesting
I was looking for a ‘quick hit reply’ to send to a Clinton supporter and this is it!
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Same here. Ad Block too.
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CCleaner is a GREAT application. I have been using the Pro version for several years on all of my computers.
Some good tools to guard against advertisement type intrusions are applications like Ghostery (https://www.ghostery.com/), and I also highly recommend Flash blocking browser plugins like FlashControl (https://bitbucket.org/mirrorbrain/flashcontrol/). Flash has many vulnerabilities and is a primary source of trackers and the like.
And finally, make sure to utilize a GOOD anti-virus/anti-malware application. Personally I like WebRoot (https://www.webroot.com/us/en/home). I protect my entire family with WebRoot, including all of our mobile devices. They have been rated very well and are reasonably priced for multiple devices.
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I am also a big fan of CCleaner.
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Pretty creative attack for a buncha political hacks that couldn’t keep track of their emails…
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They have the full support and cooperation of a lot of Silicon Valley’s most rich, powerful, and influential Democrats.
I have had this problem for several months now and must delete everything several times a day and still freeze up regularly. I’ve suspected it was political sabotage all along and have been awaiting some public disclosure such as this to be forthcoming–but have only been met with “tin foil hat” type accusations when I’ve suggested it online.
I think they have bugs available to more or less completely shut us down whenever necessary.
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Get yourself setup with a good suit of applications to protect yourself. It is worth the little cost when done properly. I would recommend you also consider a PC utilities and performance application like SystemMechanic from Iolo (http://www.iolo.com/) to help you keep your system clean and running properly. I have used it for about 15 years or more and it has worked extremely well for keeping my computers in good health.
If you couple this with a good suit of anti-virus/malware utilities as I have described above (can be done very inexpensively), you should be able to browse the Internet safely without worry of infections or malware/adware/spyware tracking. And it just pisses off the advertisers … hehehe .. 😉
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Most likely supplied by the folks at google.
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Or you could also block her ads. When you catch them get the URL and block it. By the way Sundance– I hope you blocked Hillary from advertising here. I know you have word ads.. Buy still.. LOL.
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Ad blocker doesn’t stop you from picking up the malware. It’s automatically embedded in the site, not the ad. You may not see an ad yet still pick up the malware.
This is a much bigger issue than would appear on the surface and obviously the internet sites don’t want people to know about this because it can have massive ramifications.
I don’t want to get into a battle with the entire leftist internet, that’s why my warning is a very simple explanation of the issue. Along with the simplest, albeit terribly inconvenient, solution.
Again, Ad Blocker doesn’t protect you. The malvertising code, leaves the ad, and gets on the page, then you pick it up and it travels with you tracing your footprint to identify when and where to detonate.
It’s a very devious scheme.
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Thank You Sundance. All this week, & last week, each & everyday,~~ I have been getting a Notice from NORTON that I need to restart my computer, to finish Removing Malware. It gets resolved, & then it occurs again. I had no idea what was causing it, because I spend the majority of my time here, & only visit Drudge, Breitbart & a few other sites, once a day.
I guessed it was some kind of attack due to the Fact that I am always on Sites that favor TRUMP~! However, since I have been to the same locations for the last year & 1/2, I thought it strange that it just started last week.
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Yup. The worst part of it is when we want to share an article on a news site or provide a link for citation…. See our issue?
Neither Drudge nor I can stop putting people into the position of compromise. This malvertising issue is sneaky… it’s everywhere. This appears to be a very well thought out strategy. The only thing we can do is remind everyone to keep clearing their cache throughout the day.
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just as an informational/helpful note.
Something that may help is PeerBlock, which runs as a firewall service and blocks IPs from known offending IPs (millions!). The default list already includes IPs for major media, advertising, government, schools etc. The IP list is updated automatically and you also have the option to include your own range and or exceptions.
Free and OpenSource and community supported.
PeerBlock Download link:
http://forums.peerblock.com/read.php?1,15390
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BRAVO!! .. Yes, this is another great idea that I had forgotten about.
I will caution the novices out there though. You can block access to EVERYTHING with this utility, so be advised and used with caution. Study up a little bit on proper user and setup before using this.
I use this particular software on several of my web servers to block DDOS attacks. Basically, I block all Chinese IP blocks along with many other countries and known attack sources. PeerBlock is primarily used to block INCOMING requests. I have used it on my servers for many years and it works quite well. I would also recommend that you pay a couple of bucks to get a subscription to I-BlockList (https://www.iblocklist.com/) and utiltize some of those block lists. Be careful however, you can end up blocking yourself out of a lot of things if not careful. There are hundreds and hundreds of block lists available that are usable with PeerBlock.
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I’ve been noticing many strange things going on with my computer. You must be aware of the insidious strategy’s of our opponents
Besides what Sundance rightly tells you to do, I’d also suggest using Malwarebytes, an anti-malware that is free & excellent. Also, rkill is great at stopping malware that’s programmed to stop anti-malware so it’s not effective
Use rkill first, & then run Malwarebytes
The left will stop at nothing to disrupt our momentum. Make sure you’re protected & free to speak your mind
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I run Linux. I don’t see any malware. I also run noscript in addition to adblock. If you have specific details on the attack vector for analysis, I would appreciate it.
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This very thing was warned against when this advertising model was introduced almost 20 years ago in the effort of monetizing Internet usage.
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If internet advertising used the same trust model as radio/TV/cable broadcast, this wouldn’t be a problem. Ads would be hosted on individual servers within sites. Instead, they push ad content out there to a single place where they don’t have to trust the main content host server. This enables the ability to block. They are incredibly untrusting and incredibly greedy. What’s more, malware is PRIMARILY distributed through ad networks now. That’s a fact.
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Paul Ryan said on Fox the other day;
“if you lived through the (political) 90’s you’ll remember the Clintons were always in a scandal.. This is nothing new.. “”
So true.
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And if Paul Ryan has known this since the 90s, why hasn’t he been doing anything about it this last twenty years? And he wonders where Trump has come from.
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Excellent point….I wouldn’t be surprised to find out he is crooked also…just hasn’t got the expertise they have.
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I am surprised you do not already know. Even if you are limiting your definition of crooked to money alone Ryan is crooked. Any elected individual who has not done their duty is crooked.
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IF he is crooked?
PLEASE Watch!
PBS: Immigration Battle
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/immigration-battle/
Transcript
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/immigration-battle/transcript/
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Exactly! Mr. All-Talk-And-No-Action continues to yak away just like he has no responsibility to do anything except pass legislation like TPP. The Trump administration hopefully will do everything it can to remove Ryan from the Speakership if he wins re-election. The thought that he may continue to be in the Constitutional line for the Presidency is abhorrent.
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The man must go. He should be the first to be ousted asap. He hides within the GOP and is worse than a Democrat, who at least is open about his or hers progressive, globalism.
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If I recall, Donald mentioned when he won, lyin’ would likely be in a …..different position” …something else to look forward to
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Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winner!
But Ryan is trying to change his spots — he’s just a little oily uniparty putz.
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Always they refer to the Clinton CRIMES as simply “scandals.” I wonder if people in prison would enjoy being able to just say “I’m doing life for a scandal.”
Murders, violence, theft, treason, war crimes and treachery are not “scandals.”
If people can’t bring themselves to say the word “criminal behavior” then how about just NIGHTMARES?
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This is what I tell every Clinton supporter who happens to speak about her. How could anyone who lived through the 90’s want to put our country through that same crap all over again? The Clintons are dirty.
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Was that the day he wouldn’t say he voted for TRUMP? I believe he finally got out something like I voted for our candidate. Which one? I believe there were 17, at least. Did you vote for the 2016 Republican Nominee? Or the 2012 candidate? Our candidate, my axx.
Axxhat Kusich voted for McCain (a former multiple-time candidate). One of the wicked females who has been a pain said she wrote in Pence. At first I thought that might be the never TRUMPers plan, but they all seem to spout something different to the media, but they can’t say the name TRUMP.
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Reply to Amy
Paul Ryan was appointed Chairman of the RNC Presidential Trust. This is money spent by the RNC to support the presidential candidate’s campaign. The RNC spent about 40 million on Romney. How many pro Trump ads do you see on tv?
10-28-16 Huffington Post
“Hillary Clinton Has A Big Cash Advantage For The Campaign’s Final Weeks”
“The RNC had $51 million cash on hand on Oct. 20, and had spent less than $400,000 on either coordinated or independent expenditures to support their 2016 candidate. Most of those expenses were incurred more than a year ago ― before Republican voters chose Trump as their standard-bearer.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hillary-clinton-donald-trump_us_5812c76be4b0990edc304112
Meanwhile the cat is quietly chewing on the canary as he pretends to care. Who is Paul Ryan?
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This needs to be a bigger story. This is huge. Spread this story far and wide.
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I work in a University IT Department – we use Malwarebytes to clear these things up. It’s a free download for individual users, highly recommend it.
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Does Ghostery do this? Sorry, I am not tech proficient. (yet).
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Your solution doesn’t stop this. This malvertising has a profiling code. It’s not what you think. See above.
No vendor has yet developed a product to defeat this.
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Does disabling javascript help?
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What about using tor browser to visit pro-Trump sites? At least that spares your usual browser from infection.
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Really? Did you even read what Sundance posted?
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Of course I did. Sundance doesn’t mention the tor browser so what’s your point?
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Tails would be a better option. Same thing as Tor, but in a bootable “live” usb drive. It’s free from Tor’s website. Tor & Tails are very slow, I never use them because of that reason. Plus, Tor’s network has long been compromised.
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Kaspersky ‘Total’ seems to be doing a good job of swatting it so far.
But I have it set to only allow cookies on approval…so that probably helps.
Unfortunately Kaspersky is a bit pricey, though.
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wheatie – I have Kapersky, also, and have not yet had a problem (knock on wood.) I’m horrified that they would stoop this low. The media should be covering this far and wide -but we know they won’t.
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I had Kaspersky a couple of years ago. I had an obvious virus in my laptop. Kept running complete scans and it kept telling me “no threats were found”. It was bad. Just for kicks, I loaded the AVG free in the laptop and ran a complete scan and it found 5 serious viruses in the laptop, quarantined them, problem solved.
FWIW.
Needless to say, I dumped Kaspersky out of all 5 of my computer devices.
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One thing I’ve noticed, is that the settings go back to ‘default settings’ if we have a power outage or blip.
The default settings are not very high…not as high as I set them to.
And you have to get deep into the Settings to set them for what you want the service to do.
I was surprised to see how lax they were…without any adjustments…and what it allowed, like cookies & data collection.
So I’m sorry to hear it failed you, but perhaps your settings weren’t high enough? I dunno, I can’t account for it failing you so badly.
It’s working okay for us so far.
(knock on wood)
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Also, check out the browser settings for cookies. Something is turning off WordPress cookies needed to run properly. So if you cannot “like” any comments or see the black WP toolbar at the top, go into settings & take WP out of the blocked list, & put it in the allow list.
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Son of a gun, it’s like they’ve deliberately created this knowing there is no fix.
Well, it’s not only hurting us, but their nasty trolls too. I guess all the others aren’t so highly regarded after all. They’re also hurting the ones who believe their lies to the point they come to our areas trying to save us, and point out our misguided ways. I’ve had more than a few of those.
I’m sure the paid trolls have been well protected.
I can’t believe they’re going after their own voters too, unless that’s what their plan was all along anyways, which isn’t making much sense to me now.
I’m really tired from traveling through three airports already today, so I’m going to have to think on this a bit after I get some good rest. However, I do look forward to Sundance’s words of expertise and explanations in what sounds like the near future.
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I have noticed issues but had no idea what it was – was very suspicious though. Thank you. Also, and you will all laugh, last night when the fur was really flying the power cut off in the house but it wasn’t raining. The wireless went out and would not come back on. Finally got all power back but it freaked me out! I had just been praying to be free from fear as we move through this election when it happened.
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Payback to the bitch will be sweet.
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We expected less from people who trashed White House and loaded up the trucks with stolen items?
Going away with any semblance of grace is not going to happen.
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This is a good place to point out that StartPage.com is a great home page: private browsing, supported from (IIRC) Denmark. They also have cheap encrypted email, StartMail.com, which won an award from PC Magazine.
This means that, as they’re not subject to US Govt. snooping laws, they can enable private web browsing; and they also don’t have to open your email to the Govt. like, e.g., Yahoo & Gmail do. Check them out. (No, I don’t get paid! I just use StartPage as my home page, and am seriously thinking of getting StartMail also. I don’t like Nosy Parkers, on principle.)
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Yes you are right about this. I post from a foreign IP address. It still is very slow here, and I have to clear all before posting.
Glad you sent out this warning.
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Well that explains what’s up with my computer. I’ll do as you say. Just tonight husband was complaining about trying to navigate to a Web page.
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I use Linux (pretty much virus-immune all by itself), script blocker, and emcrypted VPN.
…but then, I’m paranoid.
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What VPN?
What Linux?
I’d like to use both but am a novice, a paranoid novice.:)
Thought of using hopefortheparanoid as a screen name…
This article ,(Thank you Sundance!!), really helps me . Remember that saying, “Just because you’re paranoid, doesn’t mean they’re not out to get you…”?
Apparently, they really are.😞😠
Also, what browser do you recommend?
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VPN = Virtual private network. This allows your Internet traffic to flow through another server so your Internet address is not exposed.
Linux = An alternative computer operating system, think Windows or OS X. It is a great OS but not particularly user friendly.
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VPN’s work if they don’t already know your IP address (which is like the home address of your computer)
With a VPN, your internet requests are sent to the VPN’s server often in another nation and from there to the URL address. The results come back to the VPN and then back to you. The folk at the URL address know you are using a VPN, and sometimes let you know they know. Plus, since they know the location of the VPN server, some providers will change their product to the language of that nation. Sometimes I got Chinese text on Amazon.
A VPN will keep most new folk from finding your address. However even when I change internet providers, even when I move, the same old cast of enemies quickly locate my new IP. Never had such a band of enemies until I became enmeshed at Hotair and it multiplied when I became a Trump defender.
I was going to quit the fight, but when Trump tentatively entered the race, and I saw the HA cast of fake average patriotic citizens (trolls) staged to create an impression that nobody considered Trump a serious candidate, I doubled down and decided I had to fight this fight – which involves getting punched in the face every day. I know some how Kim and Assange feel, because you are up against the people who write half the software driving the web
Best wishes. MAGA Trump!
(and God Bless Steve Pieczenik)
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linux is wonderful. i run mint.
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Wow!!! Their perniciousness knows no bounds.
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Not my normal proclivities of anti Muslim brotherhood presidential candidate crooked Hillary usurp emperor Obama invective rather a appreciation because this article not only enlightened and protected technologically defense less me but might have liberated me both from being my losing war on common sense and avoiding capture in my case certain death from TRUMP phoebe seditious team Hillary insurgents or jihads thank ya’ll fixing to YouTube videos first aid the vitality imperative information as it was once said” you can learn a lot from a dummy” this dummies little edification is gratuitously appreciated victory 8 Nov is coming soon
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What exactly was this word salad all about??
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That was understandable if you assume he’s on a cell phone and isn’t “shifting” to use punctuation.
Translation: “Thanks for the warning, corrective measures will be taken”
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If you use Firefox, try setting it to Private Browsing mode before cruising into enemy territory.
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Umm, I really do not appreciate this nor do I think it is acceptable on this site. I am very tech savvy and yet, your personal attack is uncalled for.
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Stay away from the Daily Mail! I learned the hard way.
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LOL
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This sounds illegal. What am I thinking? It’s the Clintons of course its illegal.
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Using Chrome…I have my browser set to clear cookies on Exit. Nice and fresh for every launch!
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D.E.P.R.E.S.S.I.N.G! Because I am absolutely computer illiterate when it comes to the inner workings of programming, or even using the correct terminology when trying to discuss these matters, I’m at a loss to know what this means to an individual.
Is the malware something that will steal personal information and use it to destroy the individual in every possible way? What do they want besides shutting down truth and scaring us? If the technology was invented to use for ill, why isn’t there a technology to defeat it?
How will clearing the cache do anything if the malware can’t be removed anyway? If we come to this site will we be infected all over again?
I know…I know…these questions are probably dumb as spit. But this is distressing to an elderly old gal like myself. Makes me want to shut everything down and disappear into reading books or listening to my tapes and watching old movies on my DVD.
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Lucille- being elderly is not a handicap :)- I’m not there quite yet and I don’t understand this stuff very much myself.
I would suggest taking a free computer class at your local library. I did and it is amazing what all you can learn for free!
I agree with you though- it is depressing that everything in this life is so corrupted!
I look forward to the next life- when all that is finally destroyed for good!
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No worries, Lucille. Malware can be destructive, but what Sundance is describing isn’t quite that bad. What the Clinton malvertising thing does is it sits in your browser and stops you from visiting pro-Trump websites like this one. The way you protect yourself is to go to Google or whatever search site you like and search “how to clear cookies and cache” plus the name of your browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome… whichever one you’re using). You’ll find directions on what to do, then just follow the directions.
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Do Not Fret. If you are not having any issues, don’t worry.
There’s no other risk, other than user/site disruption – which is the intent. Their goal, as it appears, is to simply to block you from getting information and/or visiting websites they view as a risk to their narrative.
If you don’t have a problem, you are not fitting their profile. The malware profiles the user. If you quit, they win. If you change your behavior, they win. If you lose enjoyment, they win. Don’t let them win.
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Sundance,
I get the the VERY STRONG impresion of Google or Facebook analysis of the spread of Clinton Scandal and ALT-Right memes and this tool being deployed as an electronic countermeasure against same.
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Lucille, DO NOT feel alone. Even when some generous, knowledgeable, patient soul tries to explain things so they are very simple, my first thought is always, “What? 😕 ” I am trying to figure out what to do with this myself. I can delete cookies, but I don’t know how to keep the ones I really want, like to the bank. {sigh}
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Thanks, everyone for your reassuring replies. As Fitzgerald said, “…in a real dark night of the soul it is always three o’clock in the morning….” A reminder that I shouldn’t whine after 3:00 when everything looms large. Haha!
I worked on PC’s and various other computers as part of my job since 1980 and know all about using them for research, composing, etc. It’s just the inner computer world that is unknowable since I always had people working for me that handled any problems.
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Will setting “Accept third party cookies” to “Never” eliminate the problem?
Personally, I only accept cookies by site exception. It’s a PITA, but worth it to me.
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Less subtle perhaps, but if you don’t need to see a Clinton ad to be infected, then you’re probably vulnerable if you even visit a website controlled by people who are friendly to the Clintons. I’m thinking Facebook, Google/YouTube, Twitter & Apple. It’s a big risk for them, to be sure, but what do they have to lose? Why, EVERYTHING, that’s what.
Don’t forget that this exploit had to be developed by somebody. It was probably done by one of them.
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You don’t have to “see” anything to be infected by malware. You can pick some up simply by visiting a site. This is true of rootkits, and they are the devil to be rid of once infected, sometimes impossible.
Follow the suggestions that Sundance has offered.
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Appreciate this Sundance… thanks. And to you people who get your jollies doing stuff like this, thinking it’s gonna deter us from doing what we’re about to do: Enjoy it while you can, because the whole world is about to change. See ya down the road.
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I browse and post on my note 5 what do i do.
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It is all about how the internet/commercial sites work. Gather data, put you in a box, sell it on and guess what? Privacy is an antiquated idea.
One of my bête noire is that ever diminished line between private and public.
Do what you can, but know that the internet is open and public access.
Just like the Clinton so-called deleted emails, the internet has them all and in the words of a great novel by Bukgakov: “manuscripts don’t burn”.
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Thank you.
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I use a Virtual Private Network (VPN). I use Private Internet Access but there are many others. PIA is only about $3/month.
Also, you can see some of the information that your browser leaks while online by going to this site:
• Browser Leaks
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PIA worked well for me – in terms of acquiring less new enemies. If the attacker already has your IP address a VPN will not stop them from directly addressing your PC. And, a VPN doesn’t protect you from malware embedded in what is returned to you via the VPN server. Such malware could find your IP address once it is on your system
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Sundance
I suggest you tell your readers to switch to the Brave web browser (www.brave.com). It is a new type of secure browser that utilizes block chain technology(bitcoin). The downside for blog owners is that it blocks ads, but the upside for readers is that it blocks cookies, trackers, and scripts.
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All of the major browsers allow one access to a “private browser” window where no infection vector is available as no cookies or any kind of tracking is allowed to be saved.
In Chrome hit Ctrl + Shift + n which will open a new “incognito” window
In Firefox hit the menu button in the upper right corner then select new private window
Any cached data or cookies loaded onto your browser will be deleted when you close this window helping to prevent site tracking.
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I am using a private window… I am invisible !!
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You can test what information your browser is giving out by going to browserleaks.com. I’d test those “Incognito” and “private browser” settings. Sorry, I don’t quite trust them.
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Yes, there is no such thing as being invisible.
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Cleared my Cookies & Cache just now, but apparently that put me into the Treehouse Doghouse – comments being moderated or disappearing completely.
*clears throat ….hello? It’s me. Can I come in to play? I’ll be good. I promise!
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If you clear cookies, you ave to sign in again to WordPress. Have you tried that?
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I am ashamed that it took me a while to remember that… but here I am…
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This is what frustrates me, each time I clear cookies I have to re-sign in to all of my sites. I use LastPass which is handy but still a royal pain.
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Same here. In the doghouse. Cache, cookies cleared ‘from the beginning of time’, new password. If this posts, fine. I’m going to watch Fox & Friends.
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this should be part of your daily routine, like brushing your teeth. If you have not noticed by now, a lot and I mean a helluva lot of sites use Taboola, Rev Content, Outbrain, ie Israeli profiling advertising software which uses undisclosed methods to offer up ads to you. That is probably not all they do. Clearing your cache, cookies etc should be like brushing your teeth. Cookies can track your browsing behavior. Clearing is better than doing nothing, but probably not enough. I suspect there are quite a few methods “advertising” platforms profile other than websites visited. You should also use a VPN with an exit in a different legal jursidiction and be aware that your device has an electronic fingerprint called a MAC address, which identifies unique device settings. Be aware of the company and directors of any VPN software you choose to use. Wikileaks recommends Tor and Tails.
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Aha. This may explain the frequent and frustrating redirection of recent days to an inane “You are a winner” fake contest site. It happens every time I navigate to the Drudge Report and to the Conservative Treehouse.
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I receive “offers” in a new window. Just click here they say, hehe.
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and that includes offers from “google”
if concerned about browser tracking activity, consider using Brave. It is a newish one developed by the executive from Firefox who was forced put due to his opposition to SSM. It makes a point of saying it does not track.
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forced out, typo
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I’ve been getting those “You are a winner” ads from visiting Drudge, for months. It’s while I am on my iPad (Safari), and closing the browser and then going back to Drudge doesn’t always make it go away.
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Have had problems with it while looking up other information on politics.
Thank you for the information!
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“There must be some way out of here” said the joker to the thief
“There’s too much confusion”, I can’t get no relief
Businessmen, they drink my wine, plowmen dig my earth
None of them along the line know what any of it is worth.
“No reason to get excited”, the thief he kindly spoke
“There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke
But you and I, we’ve been through that, and this is not our fate
So let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late”.
All along the watchtower, princes kept the view
While all the women came and went, barefoot servants, too.
Outside in the distance a wildcat did growl
Two riders were approaching, the wind began to howl.
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These days, cleaning out cookies frequently is necessary to keep my computer working right – especially after reading and commenting on articles at other sites,
Some websites (even supposedly conservative sites) can put as many as 50-60 sets of cookies from all the sites on their list! Right Scoop, Red State and a whole bunch of other formerly conservative, anti-Trump sites are on this list.
I don’t know if these cookies are used to track you and report back to their central command (see* below), but their presence eventually disrupts reading and even typing at CTH.
I don’t know about iPhones, iPads, etc., and I quit using a PC after getting targeted with an encryption virus.
Here’s what I do to prevent and fix the problem on my 2010 Mac laptop (OS X 10.9.5)
PREVENT
1) I frequently manually clear every cookie except CTH, Word Press and WP cookies.
Go to Safari Preferences, then Privacy, click Details and manually delete all the cookies that do not pertain to CTH.
2) When signing into other sites to comment, especially Discus, I clean out cookies asap.
3) Before clicking on some sites, I block all cookies first, just to prevent the aggravation of so many cookies. Go to Preferences, Privacy and click Always block cookies.
FIX
1) If I have interference, I clear all cookies or reset Safari completely which clears ALL cookies and resets history. Then I have to sign in again to Word Press and CTH.
2) If all that doesn’t work, I go to https://theamericanindependent.wordpress.com – another Pro-Trump WordPress site that has CTH in its right side bar and click on a CTH article.
3) Sometimes even clearing cookies/files and restarting doesn’t do the job, I have to reset and close Safari, close down the computer completely and start again, which means signing in again to WordPress at CTH.
Usually all that works – UNLESS the trouble-makers are attacking the Conservative Tree House itself.
*(Central Command: The Utah-based NeverTrumpers (McMullin is CIA), the UnipartyDemocratRINO globalists, an Obama-weaponized US agency such as NSA, or our new UN Internet overlords, or the Chinese, Norks, Nigerians, or (cue spooky music) the Russians. Or all of the above.)
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Don’t forget to reboot every day or so and clear out all the stray fragments in your Random Access Memory (different from your hard drive ) you normally need to reboot to do this.
Confession: I am procrastinating this morning.
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I reset Safari and close down every night. Leaving my computer on and on a website when I’m not using it causes problems.
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Interesting. I should…
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Here’s a quick browser check to see how effective your anti-tracking settings are.
Panopticlick is part of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (“EFF”).
https://panopticlick.eff.org/results?
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And that is supposed to help….How?
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It is a quick assessment of how target-able and recognizable you are online.
It is looking at the various types of information stored by the brower that uniquely identifies your browsing history and your particular browser. For example the first two history/cookie storage issues can be removed by running something like Privacy Badger. But if your browser has already been “fingerprinted” from a previous setting, websites could recognize you and target ads or scripts even if your cache is clear
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OK. But everytime I run one of those “Fixer” programs, or monkey with the settings, everything goes south for a week and my laptop runs even worse. NO THANKS. If they DO “Recognize” me that’s fine, just as long as they don’t show up on my doorstep. I’, running low on ammo.
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I have all “clear history” options set, and configure the it to do this when I close the browser. So when I am done reading/browsing I simply “X it out”.
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Thanks Sundance!
If you happen to see a new tab open and it states that your browser is out of date and an update is available, DO NOT, I repeat, DO NOT CLICK THE LINK TO UPDATE YOUR BROWSER. I’ve have seen this a couple times in the last week. Once was when I was on DrudgeReport and the new tab opened said there was an update for the Chrome browser with a big Chrome icon. However when I looked at the URL of the website it was obviously something spurious and not an official Google website. Stay safe.
And I pray for the safety and good health of Mr. Trump and his family.
Many blessings to you all
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For an Android device running Firefox, Clean Quit add-on is recommended. For a PC, No Script and set Firefox to delete browsing history on close – and especially the Macromedia folder in its entirety. That gets rid of the supercookies. Not using Google as a search engine is a yuge privacy help, also.
Apple user? Can’t help ya.
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Be careful of those posters offering suggestions, especially from names you don’t know.
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What I have to do is force quit Safari by opening Firefox then re start. Also got rid of Google and using Bing. That helped a lot. it takes them longer to jam me.
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CCleaner is a very effective tool for this. It also includes an excellent windows registry cleanup tool Best of all, it is free. Just be careful to opt our of the google chrome installation option that rides along in the setup.
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Howie posted something a while back about how the Correct The Record (CTR) was given instructions to take down all the enemies sites to shut them up, and they are using FBI Grade Tools. Not surprising since they are all SO INCESTUOUS within OUR Government, and everything we have recently learned from O’Keefe and WikiLeaks.
I was not sure that it was a true story, but very scary. It was right after the final debate.
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For the past week or two (I’m not exactly certain), I have noticed that Chrome doesn’t recognize that I am logged in to my wordpress.com account when I comment at the Treehouse, requiring me to reenter my credentials with each comment. I chalked it up to a cookie issue. I wonder if it is related? (Note: I previously tried clearing my browser cache, but doing so didn’t fix the issue described above.)
I haven’t noticed most of the other symptoms mentioned. But, I rather aggressively block third-party cookies, and scripts.
Sundance: I have a couple of ideas for you, that may or may not do anything, but I thought I’d mention them anyway:
When you post links, pass them through a URL shortener like bit.ly. This might shield CTH clickthroughs to those links from being recognized as originating from CTH.
Alternately, when you post links, post them as text instead of hyperlinks. Users would have to copy and paste them in order to follow them, but doing so should guarantee that following the link won’t show CTH as the referrer.
The second suggestion is one that anyone can use when following links. Just right-click any link, select “copy link” (or “copy address” or whatever the appropriate text says), then open a new browser tab, and paste the copied link.
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Good advice
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