The paper, headquartered at 100 Front Street and known locally as the Telegram or the T & G, offers coverage of all of Worcester County, as well as surrounding areas of the western suburbs of Boston, Western Massachusetts, and several towns in Windham County in northeastern Connecticut. The Telegram & Gazette (and Sunday Telegram) is the only daily newspaper of Worcester, Massachusetts. So it seems to be safe to visit the site again.Worcester, Massachusetts 01608, United States Google also no longer lists the site as being potentially harmful to your computer, nor does Firefox. If you believe that your computer may have been affected while connected to our site, please contact Online Director Mark Henderson at (508) 793-9266. It is our understanding that computers with up-to-date virus protection would not have been compromised. We believe that we have corrected the problem and that you can continue to use the site without concern. When we learned of the problem, we took all appropriate steps to ensure the integrity and safety of the site. Our Web site was the target of a virus or other intruding program for limited periods of time from Monday afternoon to early Wednesday morning. We received a note from Mark Henderson, Online Director over at the Telegram & Gazette, who let us know about the problem and gave us this note, which was also posted on their website: UPDATE: The problem appears to have been fixed. If you have a Macintosh or Linux computer available, it is probably safe to visit the site from those computers – as almost all malware is written for Microsoft Windows. If you absolutely must go to the website, we’d recommend using extreeme caution. You can check on the status of the situation by searching Google for “ worcester telegram and gazette” and seeing whether the “This site may harm your computer” warning is still there. Until this situation is resolved, we’d recommend staying away from the Worcester Telegram & Gazette’s website. If you do visit the Telegram & Gazette’s website ( not recommended right now), you’ll see a vague statement on the front page regarding “problems” they are experiencing right now, and how they are “working with their vendors” to resolve it. If you use Internet Explorer, you won’t get any warning – so if you do use Internet Explorer, you might want to avoid going directly to the Telegram & Gazette’s website and instead search for it using Google.Īccording to Google’s report, the malware isn’t coming directly from, but from other sites – probably linked via ads of some sort, or perhaps via a sneaky technique known as “injection,” which allows content from other (usually “bad”) sites to be “injected” into other sites (usually very popular ones). If you use Firefox as your web browser and you try to go directly to the Telegram & Gazette’s website, you’ll see a security warning similar to this: If you search Google for “ worcester telegram and gazette“, you will receive a warning page similar to the one shown below (the warning is circled in red): Google has a “Safe Browsing” notice page that explains the details of what has been found coming from the Telegram & Gazette’s website. Of course this is done without your consent (or notice). “Drive by” malware means malicious or harmful software that is installed on your computer even if you don’t click on anything. Google seems to have caught the Worcester Telegram & Gazette’s website () distributing “drive by” malware. Note: this problem has since been fixed – see the notes at the bottom of this article.
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