Comments on: Short and sweet…URLs

By: Batarang

Batarang — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:41:35 +0000

The main reason Zone Alarm is flagging Tinyurl is because there’s lots of folks that will “hide” a porn (or worse) website link with it. A recent feature is where you can customize the Tinyurl by adding your own description after the “/”. The add-on mentioned in the article will also allow you to mouse-over the Tinyurl link and give you the entire address in a tooltip.

By: Laura

Laura — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 12:05:41 +0000

@Lynne,

That is correct…sort of I have Zone Alarm at home and experience that myself. It’s a setting on ZA…you have to add TinyURL to the exclusion list. If you google “zone alarm tinyurl” you will see this is a common issue with Zone Alarm, rather than TinyURL being a spyware site.

Laura

By: Lynne Welch

Lynne Welch — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 19:00:34 +0000

I have recently received complaints from someone that her ZoneAlarm firewall flagged TinyURL as a known high-risk website which distributes spyware???

I found that rather disturbing …

By: Owen

Owen — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:33:21 +0000

Here’s one for the lolcats fans:

http://icanhaz.com/

P.S. Laura–post idea: lolcats!!1