[Merged] Google: This site may harm your computer?

[girlstar]

I googled something (itchy ears) out of my Firefox 3.0.5 browser but every site (even if I google "Google") has beneath it "this site may harm your computer" and when I click the link it goes to a google page (with a google address in the address bar) saying it may not be safe and to go to the google statistic diagnostic page. What's this about? I can't view these pages unless I copy and paste the URL posted in the google notice.

[gr8dlr]

Was doing some searching on Google and I see the caption "This site may harm your computer" on a lot of the results (actually every site on the first ten pages alone). I've never noticed before and I'm sure it wasn't there.

Google refers your to stopbadgeware.org for information but the site yields a "Page Load Error" which is of no use.

Post your opinions / thoughts / feedback here.

[Snicla]

So it's not my computer!

I was just about to post this. I have a feeling google got hacked. I've been running scans for the past 20 mins.

I use Firefox as well, tried it in IE and same thing.

[nahim.a.a]

same problem here.

[soldwithgold]

Yep, either an app gone bad or they got targeted.

[CastIronStove]

I googled something (itchy ears) out of my Firefox 3.0.5 browser but every site (even if I google "Google") has beneath it "this site may harm your computer" and when I click the link it goes to a google page (with a google address in the address bar) saying it may not be safe and to go to the google statistic diagnostic page. What's this about? I can't view these pages unless I copy and paste the URL posted in the google notice.

I was going to post the same question.

With the exception of a link leading to books.google.ca, every result for 'samba "map hidden"' has the 'this site may harm your computer' link beneath it.

[killer_chan]

+1

[skywalker]

same problem here.

+1

[Rehan]

Even kittens are harmful! What is the world coming to??

http://twitpic.com/img/19l7f-f4e4b4f87d572249ea95c2fe1c25d1bd.498467c1.png

[rpeatt]

Omg google is broke the world will end

[Snicla]

Too bad, I always preferred google.

[MacGyver]

It's a world wide problem.

Trying to go to the stopbadware.org site won't work because it's getting absolutely HAMMERED by half the planet trying to access it at once!

[Barutsu]

Even "google" may harm your computer :lol:

"#
Google
This site may harm your computer.
Google.ca offered in: Français · Advertising Programs - Business Solutions - About Google - Go to Google.com. ©2009 - Privacy.
www.google.ca/ - Similar pages
#
Google
This site may harm your computer.
Enables users to search the Web, Usenet, and images. Features include PageRank, caching and translation of results, and an option to find similar pages.
Show stock quote for GOOG
www.google.com/ - Similar pages"

[nahim.a.a]

msn search works.

[SAN66]

Wow I thought it was just wikipedia that got hacked and marked unclean, but it seems to be every google search results.

Would hate to be the IT guy that has to fix this or the programmer that introduced the bug/flaw.

Seems to only be happening with google.ca... Never mind happening on both.

[dubey]

msn search works.
how do i get ther i cant google it?!!!3322

[Rehan]

Well, at least someone at Google is awake and knows about the problem.
http://twitter.com/AdWordsHelper/status/1164594642

[nahim.a.a]

www.msn.com

[edgedamage]

I thought I got something because almost everything was blocked. EVERY!!!
link to this query is blocked:
red flag deals

Well gotta use yahoo for now.

[user01]

I was surfing just right now and I thought I installed some pop up spam programs which got me a bit paranoid... :|:|:|

[Spare-Flair]

Good job on not being evil Google, you just flagged every single website and prevented access. You've destroyed the internet! Think of what this power could do in the wrong hands? (Chinese censors) :-0:D:lol:

[D-Roc]

how do i get ther i cant google it?!!!3322

LMAO. Are you serious?

[SAN66]

Googles help page gives a 502 error as well, which is where you would go through to submit feedback.

I wonder if it was some industrious hacker or an upload gone wrong? I could see them doing uploads in the early hours of Saturday morning, probably their time with the least amount of traffic.

[FuNPoLiCe001]

Sad part for me was sitting there for a good minute trying to think of another search engine to use, my mind literally blanked out.

[nogoro]

I'm usually not the one to make smart-alecky remarks but somebody's got to take the moral high ground and denounce the pr0n googling that's obviously being discussed here. :lol:

[Fuzz]

God, I feel better... I thought it was just me.......

[fattest]

http://img230.imageshack.us/img230/5002/clipboard01nw9.th.jpg (http://img230.imageshack.us/my.php?image=clipboard01nw9.jpg)

[Rehan]

I've never seen Google be more brutally honest!

http://i42.tinypic.com/2evg8aw.png

[Snicla]

I've never seen Google be more brutally honest!
http://www.google.com/search?q=microsoft+windows

LOL. The only sites not considered harmful.


BTW there's 4 posts dedicated to google on RFD. I don't think people have been more upset about anything EVER!

[Spare-Flair]

Google finally tells us the truth about itself! Google may harm your computer! Jan 31 2009 is the day when we awaken from our brainwashing! Google is the new 1984!

http://img230.imageshack.us/img230/6007/googlefckedwf2.jpg

[tvwatcher]

I've never seen Google be more brutally honest!
http://www.google.com/search?q=microsoft+windows


I'm not getting the "harm" stuff that all you are getting - weird!

when I clicked on your link there, Rehan, I got the harm warning - but when I do the search myself, I don't...:confused:

[AzN_RiverdaleCI]

there are at least 3 google threads on RFD atm, idk which 1 to post in!

edit: Mods, can it be merge time?

[Rehan]

I'm not getting the "harm" stuff that all you are getting - weird!

when I clicked on your link there, Rehan, I got the harm warning - but when I do the search myself, I don't...:confused: Google is fixing the problem... Some of their servers are now fixed while the others still have the problem. The fix should be propagated to all of them pretty soon.

I changed my previous post to a screen capture to be more clear. :)


Edit: All fixed now.

[Spare-Flair]

Good job on not being evil Google. It was funny at first (all the messageboards are buzzing) but it's actually a bit scary, I realized how reliant I am upon Google. If they ever decided to change how things are setup or impose any form of censorship, you would be helpless and not even realize it.

[Snicla]

Good job on not being evil Google. It was funny at first (all the messageboards are buzzing) but it's actually a bit scary, I realized how reliant I am upon Google. If they ever decided to change how things are setup or impose any form of censorship, you would be helpless and not even realize it.

You do know about other search engines right? No to mention that google isn't censoring you going to those sites, they're just not letting you get to them from google's links. There's nothing stopping you from typing in fuzzykitten.com or whatever.

[nahim.a.a]

its fixed.

[Sazafraz]

Mine seems fine.

[gr8dlr]

Google must have flipped a switch by accident or was doing some testing (I guess) because I don't see the problem or caption anymore....if anyone finds more info on this please post it.

[professionaldude]

That was a bug in their system. It's fixed now

[cmge]

That was a bug in their system. It's fixed now

phew i thought my comp at home was ridden with malware... -_- ...

[Rehan]

Why it happened:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/this-site-may-harm-your-computer-on.html

... We work with a non-profit called StopBadware.org to get our list of URLs. StopBadware carefully researches each consumer complaint to decide fairly whether that URL belongs on the list. Since each case needs to be individually researched, this list is maintained by humans, not algorithms.

We periodically receive updates to that list and received one such update to release on the site this morning. Unfortunately (and here's the human error), the URL of '/' was mistakenly checked in as a value to the file and '/' expands to all URLs. Fortunately, our on-call site reliability team found the problem quickly and reverted the file. Since we push these updates in a staggered and rolling fashion, the errors began appearing between 6:27 a.m. and 6:40 a.m. and began disappearing between 7:10 and 7:25 a.m., so the duration of the problem for any particular user was approximately 40 minutes. ...

[girlstar]

It's better now! It was strange because I even googled "Google this site may harm your computer" and I found some stuff but dated October 2008. When I tried to view the diagnostic it would give me a server error and the Google logo looked off.

[Mir]

http://s5.tinypic.com/33m2azt.jpg

[CanadianMike]

http://tech.slashdot.org/tech/09/01/31/1457221.shtml

its been fixed

[Kommander_KornFlakes]

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Repost, there's another thread about this from earlier today, but I like your thread about it better :D