Princess Sarah wears what she pleases!

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The Princess is a cute new webcomic about a young transgirl; I found it via Feministing.

http://www.drunkduck.com/The_Princess/index.php?p=629795

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I see no hack here...

What makes you think drunkduck.com has been hacked? I took another look at the site and didn't see anything suggesting that it had been.

Nor do I

erin's picture

Offering no evidence other than saying the site has been hacked is not good practice. If you have evidence, please include it or I will remove your warning in a few hours. This message is not to geekgirl but to Smantha.

Erroneous hack alerts are almost as much of a bane to the internet as actual hacking. In fact, over the last two years, BC has been subject to bad hacking alerts three times and has been hacked exactly zero times. One of the hack alerts landed BC on a blacklist that it took several days to correct, thereby doing more damage to the site than all the actual hacking (none) in the same two year period.

- Erin

= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.

= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.

Sometimes web advertisements

Can make a website look like it was hacked. Sometime late last year the New York Times because of an ad on one of its pages was re-directing readers to another website. It happened to me. The newspaper apologized like a day later.

I'm kind of fuzzy on the details. My memory because of various illnesses is like Swiss cheese. I can remember 35 year old sports scores but not my wife's reminder to tape Wowowee.

"Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie."- John le Carre

Daniel, author of maid, whore, bimbo, and sissy free TG fiction since 2000

What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.- Oscar Levant

Many Appologies

I wasn't very discriptive was I, Right ....

After going a few pages into the Princess comic the webpage suddenly changes and flashes up this warning that my PC is "unprotected/underattack/etc" then displays a copy of "my computer" (which is actually correct) it then goes on about protecting/scanning my pc. Now I have McAfee installed so I know this isn't coming from my machine which means it's something in the website, I have had this happen on other websites as well (often Drunkduck ones).

For info I'm running the following:
XP Home SP3 (fully upto date)
I.E.8 (fully upto date)(I know other prefer other browsers but I like I.E.)
McAfee Full internet security package (also fully upto date)

Sorry for the brash way I commented earlier (I wasn't fully awake at the time)

Sammi

P.S. I will have another look at the comic and if It does it again I'll get some screen shots for you all to see

EDIT: Of course this time it doesn't do it.......

Erin just delete my original comment please .... I'll go crawl back under my rock

That's not a virus

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That's a piece of malware trying to get you to install the spyware it comes with by clicking where it indicates. Probably in an add which the people at DrunkDuck acted to remove as soon as they detected it. I've dropped three ad agencies from supplying ads to BC because they were careless about what kinds of ads they put in their space.

I've not found McAfee or Norton to be particularly effective at preventing infection, BTW. They are much too interested in selling you something.

One of the freeware versions of a corporate anti-virus program is much more effective, much less intrusive and yards-to-miles much less demanding of your attention to its working. Since you have paid for them, Norton and McAfee want you to think they are doing something and give you all sorts of meaningless warnings and puffed-up reports along with a too large number of false positives.

The corporations subsidize freeware versions of the software they use to help keep virus and other malware down in general. In the past, I have used AVG to great good effect with less than a quarter of the annoyance that comes packaged with Norton and McAfee. AVG does have a pay version that adds identity theft protection and some other things you probably don't need. They'll try to sell you this so they are not golden children of God by any means. :)

I'm going to leave this up for awhile as being illustrative of a needed internet lesson.

Hugs,
Erin

= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.

= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.

Possibly it was an ad

I skimmed through the source code for the front page at drunkduck.com and didn't see anything malicious. The site does vend ads from Google and doubleclick.net, including Flash. You may have seen a malicious ad.

What a cute comic! Thanks

What a cute comic! Thanks for the link.

Saless

Saless 


Kittyhawk"But it is also tradition that times *must* and always do change, my friend." - Eddie Murphy, Coming To America


"But it is also tradition that times *must* and always do change, my friend." - Eddie Murphy, Coming To America

Speaking of Hacked Sites

Has anyone been to Venus Envy lately? I picked up a nasty virus there a month ago, was dumb enough to go back at which point I saw the maliscious content warning my browser was giving me, too late I was already infected. Eventually I ended wiping and reloading my HDD.
Great comic but I am afraid to go back.

Again, what evidence?

erin's picture

It's actually very hard to infect a machine with a virus just from browsing a site. Generally, you have to click on something on the site to load the virus. I don't actually know of a verified case where someone got a virus just from browsing. Spyware can be loaded by malicious javascript and flash but a virus is a specific kind of malware and operating systems are designed to make it hard for a virus to load itself without some level of cooperation from the computer user.

These kinds of reports do a lot of damage to the internet. FUD, Fear-Uncertainty-and-Doubt, is just as dangerous as real hackers and cost the operators of legitimate websites is enormous. Please don't make such reports without some sort of evidence.

- Erin

= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.

= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.

cute as a button!

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If that expression even makes sense. Maybe buttons were cuter back when the phrase was coined. But anyway, a fun comic.
Love her little GG friend, who doesn't embrace all the symbolism of girlhood that means so much to Sarah.
Apparently this is a spinoff from another TG comic that I enjoy looking at occasionally, but is more
appealing to me somehow, less cynical or something than EVE'S APPLE, with all that grown-up humor
about the nuances of identity politics in the LGBT community that I don't understand sometimes.
And I think the artist's visual style works better in this strip for some reason. Cuter.

Thanks for linking us to the very first episode. GeekGirl. After I finally found the arrows
that advance the story (they're pictograms, not labelled) I was able to read straight thru
to the current episode in about 20 minutes, and got quite a few laughs and smiles out of it.
~~hugs, Laika
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(It's the CLICK HERE TO GET TURNED INTO A GIRL malware that always gets me.
I can't believe how many times I fell for that one!)

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"Government will only recognize 2 genders, male + female,
as assigned at birth-" (In his own words:)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1lugbpMKDU

Pictograms

The buttons themselves may not be labelled, but their ALT text does. I think you can configure Internet Exploder to show the ALT text for images as a tooltip when you hover over them, and there is an extension available for FireFox which does the same.

<geek mode=on>
It's very useful when looking at strips on xkcd - there's always an additional little message hiding in the strip's ALT text...
Never mind the original purpose of providing a short textual description of the image, for use with text-mode browsers (like w3c and lynx)

/me ponders being evil and browsing BCTS in Lynx a few times, just to create an interesting blip on the site's browser access log stats :)
</geek>

 
 
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Use Lynx, an idea only a geek could love!
So of course I had to do it.
Logging in is a problem.
I'm using Lynx in a Cygwin window to do this reply.

Cheers,
Kris

Lynx

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We actually have a few people who use Lynx regularly. The Reversi theme makes it easier to login with Lynx. But many people use the RSS Feed to avoid the clutter on BC's home page. :)

http://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/rss.xml

Hugs,
Erin

= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.

= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.

More Sarah

Sarah definitely is adorable. :-) As the author says:

This is the first of a spin-off strip from Eve's Apple. YES it's debuting a day before her strip in Eve's Apple. That's because I loved her SOOOO MUCH I went to work on this new series! Enjoy!

Plus they have swag in the "Princess Sarah Shoppe" at CafePress. I'm thinking of getting the coffee mug. :-)

If you want to see more of Sarah in Eve's Apple, the story with her in it starts here, and ends when Candy and Abelle start arguing.

I agree about Eve's Apple, it wasn't as much fun.