Comments on: TimesOfIndia.com Has Advanced Adware/Malware http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/11/12/timesofindiacom/ All that flavorful brownness in one savory packet Sat, 30 Nov 2013 11:11:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Paul http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/11/12/timesofindiacom/comment-page-2/#comment-280700 Paul Mon, 27 Dec 2010 14:53:22 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4853#comment-280700 <p>The hindustantimes.com is also hoisting such malware.</p> The hindustantimes.com is also hoisting such malware.

]]> By: BShah http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/11/12/timesofindiacom/comment-page-2/#comment-275148 BShah Thu, 01 Jul 2010 23:32:03 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4853#comment-275148 <p>My computer has been infected with advanced malware and viruses several times in the last few months. The first time I didn't realize how I got it. The second time, my computer started acting funny right after I clicked on a video link on the timesofindia website. I had Norton antivirus software on my computer but that didn't prevent the virus attack. I figured I wouldn't click on video links on their site and would just read the news articles. Well, last friday after I read some articles on their site (no videos) I noticed that the computer was acting up again. Norton didn't detect anything nor did another malware software. But by Monday, my computer had become so badly infected that I had to have the computer reimaged AGAIN. Fortunately, my data was safe but it was a serious waste of time for me and for the IT folks who had to reimage my machine twice within a span of a few months. STAY AWAY FROM THIER SITE</p> My computer has been infected with advanced malware and viruses several times in the last few months. The first time I didn’t realize how I got it. The second time, my computer started acting funny right after I clicked on a video link on the timesofindia website. I had Norton antivirus software on my computer but that didn’t prevent the virus attack. I figured I wouldn’t click on video links on their site and would just read the news articles. Well, last friday after I read some articles on their site (no videos) I noticed that the computer was acting up again. Norton didn’t detect anything nor did another malware software. But by Monday, my computer had become so badly infected that I had to have the computer reimaged AGAIN. Fortunately, my data was safe but it was a serious waste of time for me and for the IT folks who had to reimage my machine twice within a span of a few months. STAY AWAY FROM THIER SITE

]]> By: VM http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/11/12/timesofindiacom/comment-page-1/#comment-268277 VM Sun, 14 Feb 2010 07:44:49 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4853#comment-268277 <p>My Laptop got infected with some Malware last week after visiting timesofindia.com. I didn't beleive it and thought it was probably something else. Had to reload laptop. Today, it almost got me again. Luckily I pulled the Ethernet cable. FPOS</p> My Laptop got infected with some Malware last week after visiting timesofindia.com. I didn’t beleive it and thought it was probably something else. Had to reload laptop. Today, it almost got me again. Luckily I pulled the Ethernet cable. FPOS

]]> By: ram http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/11/12/timesofindiacom/comment-page-1/#comment-267667 ram Sat, 30 Jan 2010 03:10:35 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4853#comment-267667 <p>I got hit with malware from timesofindia.com on january 28, 2010 (it was a scareware which said that i had virus - once i went to epaper)</p> <p>The other time adware and norton - both caught virus being served on jan 29, 2010.</p> <p>we should call times of malware. ( i have similar issues with www.cricinfo.org some time back)</p> I got hit with malware from timesofindia.com on january 28, 2010 (it was a scareware which said that i had virus – once i went to epaper)

The other time adware and norton – both caught virus being served on jan 29, 2010.

we should call times of malware. ( i have similar issues with http://www.cricinfo.org some time back)

]]> By: learner http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/11/12/timesofindiacom/comment-page-1/#comment-229922 learner Tue, 03 Feb 2009 04:57:25 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4853#comment-229922 <p>Let us see the ownership of different media agencies... NDTV: A very popular TV news media is funded by Gospels of Charity in Spain Supports Communism. Recently it has developed a soft corner towards Pakistan because Pakistan President has allowed only this channel to be aired in Pakistan. Indian CEO Prannoy Roy is co-brother of Prakash Karat, General Secretary of the Communist party of India . His wife and Brinda Karat are sisters. Gujarat riots which took place in 2002 where Hindus were burnt alive, Rajdeep Sardesai and Bharkha Dutt working for NDTV at that time got around 5 Million Dollars from Saudi Arabia to cover only Muslim victims, which they did very faithfully... Not a single Hindu family was interviewed or shown on TV whose near and dear ones had been burnt alive, it is reported. India Today: which used to be the only national weekly which supported BJP is now bought by NDTV!! Since then the tone has changed drastically and turned into Hindu bashing. CNN-IBN: This is 100 percent funded by Southern Baptist Church with its branches in all over the world with HQ in US.. The Church annually allocates $800 million for promotion of its channel. Its Indian head is Rajdeep Sardesai and his wife Sagarika Ghosh. Times group: Times Of India, Mid-Day, Nav-Bharth Times, Femina, Filmfare, Vijaya Karnataka, Times now (24- hour news channel) and many more... Times Group is owned by Bennett & Coleman. 'World Christian Council does 80 percent of the Funding, and an Englishman and an Italian equally share balance 20 percent. The Italian Robertio Mindo is a close relative of Sonia Gandhi. Star TV: It is run by an Australian, who is supported by St. Peters Pontifical Church Melbourne. Hindustan Times: Owned by Birla Group, but hands have changed since Shobana Bhartiya took over. Presently it is working in Collaboration with Times Group. The Hindu: English daily, started over 125 years has been recently taken over by Joshua Society, Berne, Switzerland . N. Ram's wife is a Swiss national. Indian Express: Divided into two groups. The Indian Express and the New Indian Express (southern edition) ACTS Christian Ministries have major stake in the Indian Express and latter is still with the Indian counterpart. The Statesman: It is controlled by Communist Party of India. Asian Age and Deccan Chronicle : Is owned by a Saudi Arabian Company with its chief Editor M.J. Akbar. Tarun Tejpal of Tehelka.com regularly gets blank cheques from Arab countries to target BJP and Hindus only, it is said. The ownership explains the control of media in India by foreigners. The result is obvious. PONDER OVER THIS. NOW YOU KNOW WHY EVERYONE IS AGAINST TRUTH.</p> Let us see the ownership of different media agencies… NDTV: A very popular TV news media is funded by Gospels of Charity in Spain Supports Communism. Recently it has developed a soft corner towards Pakistan because Pakistan President has allowed only this channel to be aired in Pakistan. Indian CEO Prannoy Roy is co-brother of Prakash Karat, General Secretary of the Communist party of India . His wife and Brinda Karat are sisters. Gujarat riots which took place in 2002 where Hindus were burnt alive, Rajdeep Sardesai and Bharkha Dutt working for NDTV at that time got around 5 Million Dollars from Saudi Arabia to cover only Muslim victims, which they did very faithfully… Not a single Hindu family was interviewed or shown on TV whose near and dear ones had been burnt alive, it is reported. India Today: which used to be the only national weekly which supported BJP is now bought by NDTV!! Since then the tone has changed drastically and turned into Hindu bashing. CNN-IBN: This is 100 percent funded by Southern Baptist Church with its branches in all over the world with HQ in US.. The Church annually allocates $800 million for promotion of its channel. Its Indian head is Rajdeep Sardesai and his wife Sagarika Ghosh. Times group: Times Of India, Mid-Day, Nav-Bharth Times, Femina, Filmfare, Vijaya Karnataka, Times now (24- hour news channel) and many more… Times Group is owned by Bennett & Coleman. ‘World Christian Council does 80 percent of the Funding, and an Englishman and an Italian equally share balance 20 percent. The Italian Robertio Mindo is a close relative of Sonia Gandhi. Star TV: It is run by an Australian, who is supported by St. Peters Pontifical Church Melbourne. Hindustan Times: Owned by Birla Group, but hands have changed since Shobana Bhartiya took over. Presently it is working in Collaboration with Times Group. The Hindu: English daily, started over 125 years has been recently taken over by Joshua Society, Berne, Switzerland . N. Ram’s wife is a Swiss national. Indian Express: Divided into two groups. The Indian Express and the New Indian Express (southern edition) ACTS Christian Ministries have major stake in the Indian Express and latter is still with the Indian counterpart. The Statesman: It is controlled by Communist Party of India. Asian Age and Deccan Chronicle : Is owned by a Saudi Arabian Company with its chief Editor M.J. Akbar. Tarun Tejpal of Tehelka.com regularly gets blank cheques from Arab countries to target BJP and Hindus only, it is said. The ownership explains the control of media in India by foreigners. The result is obvious. PONDER OVER THIS. NOW YOU KNOW WHY EVERYONE IS AGAINST TRUTH.

]]> By: real_man http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/11/12/timesofindiacom/comment-page-1/#comment-203996 real_man Wed, 21 May 2008 22:15:22 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4853#comment-203996 <p>Usually I use the best file searcher- http://megauploadfiles.com/</p> Usually I use the best file searcher- http://megauploadfiles.com/

]]> By: Yogi http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/11/12/timesofindiacom/comment-page-1/#comment-177655 Yogi Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:31:06 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4853#comment-177655 <p>I miss in-depth analysis from Indian publications, the analysis is superficial and most if not all cater to a very thin slice India, if you read these publications their India only includes English speaking Indians who live in Bombay, Delhi and some other metros. Issues are never explained to the reader and a lot of jargon is thrown around.</p> <p>I think this quotes puts it quite well.</p> <blockquote>They don't find it necessary to give background information on stories, so if you read an article about a story the first time, you have no idea what is going on</blockquote> <p>.</p> <p>I sometimes think that news media in the regional languages is sometimes better, but unfortunately lacks a wider market.</p> <p>As far as TOI is concerned it has always been an establishment newspaper, they bow and scrape before whoever is in power. Hindu covers science and history which few other publications do but their socialist tilt seems to color even their reporting. It almost seems like they would have India go back to the license Raj days when India was a Soviet satellite, sorry was "non-aligned". And if India Today is full of fluff so is Outlook India and it can be very cutsie too, I recently read an article in Outlook which stated that gyms are becoming obsolete in India and everyone has a personal trainer. I have no idea in what la-la land these reporters live in.</p> <p>There are some exceptions in this sea of mediocrity Khushwant Singh, Shekhar Gupta, Amit Varma, Shobha De etc come to mind but by large the problems Indian print and now online media have, seem to go deeper than just websites with a lot of clutter, it seems they need the clutter to make money and also hide the lack of content.</p> I miss in-depth analysis from Indian publications, the analysis is superficial and most if not all cater to a very thin slice India, if you read these publications their India only includes English speaking Indians who live in Bombay, Delhi and some other metros. Issues are never explained to the reader and a lot of jargon is thrown around.

I think this quotes puts it quite well.

They don’t find it necessary to give background information on stories, so if you read an article about a story the first time, you have no idea what is going on

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I sometimes think that news media in the regional languages is sometimes better, but unfortunately lacks a wider market.

As far as TOI is concerned it has always been an establishment newspaper, they bow and scrape before whoever is in power. Hindu covers science and history which few other publications do but their socialist tilt seems to color even their reporting. It almost seems like they would have India go back to the license Raj days when India was a Soviet satellite, sorry was “non-aligned”. And if India Today is full of fluff so is Outlook India and it can be very cutsie too, I recently read an article in Outlook which stated that gyms are becoming obsolete in India and everyone has a personal trainer. I have no idea in what la-la land these reporters live in.

There are some exceptions in this sea of mediocrity Khushwant Singh, Shekhar Gupta, Amit Varma, Shobha De etc come to mind but by large the problems Indian print and now online media have, seem to go deeper than just websites with a lot of clutter, it seems they need the clutter to make money and also hide the lack of content.

]]> By: GB http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/11/12/timesofindiacom/comment-page-1/#comment-177647 GB Wed, 14 Nov 2007 13:14:34 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4853#comment-177647 <p>This (from <b>#45</b>)</p> <blockquote>its low-flying writing and editorial standards are chosen to appeal to a newly-reading, newly-arrived Indian middle class.</blockquote> <p>is a good point, <b>Nizam</b>. I get the feeling that India Today never had a coherent editorial philosophy beyond amplifying, and then framing in pseudo-conceptual terms, what the middle class is chattering about. Thus, in pre-liberalization India, the same India Today saw no problem in devoting two cover stories to Mikhael Gorbachev, the Hindi-Roosi-bhai-bhai concept, how kickass Soviet weaponry is, etc.; all this drenched in its trademark gushy gushiness. Then, once the USSR was all washed up, an infamous India Today "insight piece" tried to convince us how "everyone" was into swinging. Today, when the Indian middle class partygoer's choice of talking points has grown beyond the latest piece of St. Petersburg crystalware, or the Maruti's new shock absorbers, or Rajiv's RAITA (or whatever the heck it was called) we see the current manifestations of India Today's editorial style.</p> <p>I agree with your point on the thoughtfulness of the analysis in Frontline and Outlook. However, Frontline (in case you work at Frontline, I hope you won't be offended) has such a visible N.-Ram-style-socialist tilt (to distinguish it from various, and substantive, modes of socialist thinking in India), that I sometimes have to worry about how sound/complete this or that analysis piece in the Frontline really is.</p> This (from #45)

its low-flying writing and editorial standards are chosen to appeal to a newly-reading, newly-arrived Indian middle class.

is a good point, Nizam. I get the feeling that India Today never had a coherent editorial philosophy beyond amplifying, and then framing in pseudo-conceptual terms, what the middle class is chattering about. Thus, in pre-liberalization India, the same India Today saw no problem in devoting two cover stories to Mikhael Gorbachev, the Hindi-Roosi-bhai-bhai concept, how kickass Soviet weaponry is, etc.; all this drenched in its trademark gushy gushiness. Then, once the USSR was all washed up, an infamous India Today “insight piece” tried to convince us how “everyone” was into swinging. Today, when the Indian middle class partygoer’s choice of talking points has grown beyond the latest piece of St. Petersburg crystalware, or the Maruti’s new shock absorbers, or Rajiv’s RAITA (or whatever the heck it was called) we see the current manifestations of India Today’s editorial style.

I agree with your point on the thoughtfulness of the analysis in Frontline and Outlook. However, Frontline (in case you work at Frontline, I hope you won’t be offended) has such a visible N.-Ram-style-socialist tilt (to distinguish it from various, and substantive, modes of socialist thinking in India), that I sometimes have to worry about how sound/complete this or that analysis piece in the Frontline really is.

]]> By: Nizam http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/11/12/timesofindiacom/comment-page-1/#comment-177637 Nizam Wed, 14 Nov 2007 07:51:27 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4853#comment-177637 <p>It is tragic that India Today has the kind of hold on international desi marketshare that it does; it just doesnt make sense - its low-flying writing and editorial standards are chosen to appeal to a newly-reading, newly-arrived Indian middle class. Frontline and Outlook have superior analysis and a much better sense of proportion about social affairs - as a disclaimer, I should say I work for one of them.</p> It is tragic that India Today has the kind of hold on international desi marketshare that it does; it just doesnt make sense – its low-flying writing and editorial standards are chosen to appeal to a newly-reading, newly-arrived Indian middle class. Frontline and Outlook have superior analysis and a much better sense of proportion about social affairs – as a disclaimer, I should say I work for one of them.

]]> By: DelhiGora http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/11/12/timesofindiacom/comment-page-1/#comment-177595 DelhiGora Wed, 14 Nov 2007 04:39:08 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4853#comment-177595 <p>Yes, Barkha Dutt, that's her.</p> Yes, Barkha Dutt, that’s her.

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