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Joe Hewitt may harm your computer
- jdueck 19y agoWhat is this?
- SwellJoe 19y agoIt's Google's malware warning system gone astray. Joe Hewitt is the creator of Firebug and a Y Combinator company founder and all around good guy.
- jdueck 19y agoOh, I get it now! :-)
- nextmoveone 19y agoJoe Hewitt is a YC founder? For what company? Are you Joe Hewitt??
- brezina 19y agoparakey (acquired by facebook)
- andreyf 19y agoWhatever happened to parakey?
- rms 19y agoI asked this a while ago on here because I was wondering if parakey was going to end up integrated into Facebook. A YC founder answered that he didn't think Parakey had gotten very far before the acquisition and that it was a talent acquisition.
- SwellJoe 19y agoI am not Joe Hewitt. I was in the same YC program as Joe, however, and my name also happens to be Joe.
- msteigerwalt 19y agoMakes sense. How many of the plugins sites try to install are actually useful? I wonder if Google will whitelist the page once this comes to their attention.
- Hexstream 19y agoI heard Google doesn't like fixing stuff manually. They'd rather fix their algorithm instead. But if they can't fix your problem by fixing their algorithm, you're basically fucked.
- andreyf 19y ago> But if they can't fix your problem by fixing their algorithm, you're basically fucked. I think it's reasonable to say that the algorithm isn't worth much if it has such false positives.
- TheTarquin 19y agoSee, when I saw the Hacker News title for this, my first thought was "Good to know, I'll simply avoid installing Joe Hewitt." Now that I think about it, maybe a blanket policy of not installing people on my computer is a good one. Better just to stick to programs.
- prakash 19y agoSiteAdvisor used to do some really cool things before they were bought -- looks like google is trying to replicate that...http://www.siteadvisor.com http://www.siteadvisor.com
- drewp 19y agoHis site was indeed hacked recently, and it was harming my computer inasmuch as it was crashing firefox. I consider the google warning to be late but not incorrect. Here's an email I sent to Joe on 2007-12-17. (It's really hard to make these kinds of messages not look like spam!) ----- Hey, I was checking out iui tonight, and your site seems broken. The front page has JS that does something involving "fredkidns.com" and it repeatedly causes my firefox to fill memory. Kazehakase is able to show the broken page, though. I think the blog top page is also hacked; other internal pages seem to be ok.
- drewp 19y agoI apologize for the slang use of the word 'hacked' up there. I meant 'vandalized, probably by means that required deep knowledge of a system to initially develop, although the vandal was unlikely the same person as the hacker who came up with the exploit'.