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There obviously is a trade-off between the strength of the language and the number of people who will click through.

The messages are accurate, Twitpic was unfortunately a distributor of malware. Here's a copy and paste of the current detailed report.

What happened when Google visited this site? Of the 12910 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 31 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. The last time Google visited this site was on 2013-01-01, and the last time suspicious content was found on this site was on 2012-12-30. Malicious software includes 13 trojan(s), 4 exploit(s). Successful infection resulted in an average of 8 new process(es) on the target machine.

Malicious software is hosted on 5 domain(s), including mpchester.info/, malatyuhr.com/, iloveeu.info/.

2 domain(s) appear to be functioning as intermediaries for distributing malware to visitors of this site, including 2upmedia.com/, adexcite.com/.

This site was hosted on 3 network(s) including AS36351 (SOFTLAYER), AS15169 (Google Internet Backbone), AS31815 (MEDIATEMPLE).

Has this site acted as an intermediary resulting in further distribution of malware? Over the past 90 days, twitpic.com appeared to function as an intermediary for the infection of 1 site(s) including ow.ly/.

http://safebrowsing.clients.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnost...

I'm not sure why you're placing the business interests of Twitpic over the safety of users, but I disagree with your attitude. I'm done here.

parent analog 14 years ago

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