View Full Version : Google search - Warning - visiting this web site may harm your computer!
holymoses 31-01-2009, 13:54 Can anyone confirm google gone ga ga.
I've just done a search for my company website and every link has the:
"This site may harm your computer."
Is it just me?
slimsid2000 31-01-2009, 13:57 me too. I was looking for a picture of Neol Edmonds (don't ask) and i kept getting the same.
Yep it just did the same for me.
Sketty24 31-01-2009, 13:59 Thank God it's not just me.
holymoses 31-01-2009, 14:00 I've just done a search using yahoo, looks like its worldwide...
Looks like google has been hacked.
slimsid2000 31-01-2009, 14:01 Thank God it's not just me.
it is htese posts are just part of a plot to get you. We are all working for the Russian secret service.
Same for me! Very frustrating. <_<
the_rudeboy 31-01-2009, 14:06 The millenium bug has arrived........9 years late.
holymoses 31-01-2009, 14:09 The millenium bug has arrived........9 years late.
Very Good!:hihi:
fox20thc 31-01-2009, 14:11 It is quite comical, I can just imagine the bods at google all running around like headless chickens as we type. :hihi::hihi:
JFKvsNixon 31-01-2009, 14:13 I was looking for wedding rings and kept on getting the same message, i'd stated to get worried that I may have a virus.
kenthack 31-01-2009, 14:13 see what you mean lol
better search all search engines and see if owt works
We were just wondering who'd unplugged what at Google headquarters.
iansheff 31-01-2009, 14:14 Well works ok for me lol
kenthack 31-01-2009, 14:15 http://uk.altavista.com/ is working ok if you need owt
Google's buggered. Threads on the subject are popping up like a chicken pox rash on an international forum I'm browsing.
kenthack 31-01-2009, 14:16 Well works ok for me lol
it does the search but have you clicked on 1 of the results?
thats when it does it
holymoses 31-01-2009, 14:17 Getting weirder try doing a shift / refresh do it once and it sorts it, do twice and there back.
Oh dear. Oh dear someone at google will be signing on Monday.
Draggletail 31-01-2009, 14:18 Every single search result for 'freeware' comes up with this warning under the search results - 'Warning - visiting this web site may harm your computer!'
If you click the link anyway, a page loads with a further warning and you have to copy and paste the URL to visit the site!
What on earth are Google playing at!
iansheff 31-01-2009, 14:19 I just had the same question on my mobile form a friend in Wales saying is Google down. Try .co.uk instead of com as it is working for me
kenthack 31-01-2009, 14:20 now getting a forbidden page stateing
"Your client does not have permission to get URL /interstitial?url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noel_Edmonds from this server. "
ps im searching only noel edmunds because 1 of the earlier posts mentioned him lol:suspect:
chinaski 31-01-2009, 14:21 I'm having the same . . . wondered if it was something I'd done.
Doesn't seem an easy was of circumnavigating it. I'm using the yahoo search facility in top right corner at the moment.
slimsid2000 31-01-2009, 14:22 I bet Mr Blobby is behind all this. He is jelous of Nolly's sucess on C4 now that he is all washed up and eaking out a living in Wolverhampton as a blow op doll.
Cenobite 31-01-2009, 14:22 I do not get that message .It works fine here.
holymoses 31-01-2009, 14:23 Looks like they have sored it...
Move along folks nothing to see here.
I just had the same question on my mobile form a friend in Wales saying is Google down. Try .co.uk instead of com as it is working for me
My homepage is .co.uk. It wasn't working when I made my first post. It is now. Progress!
ETA: All fixed.
I am getting it on IE 6 and not on FF 3.
The problem now fixed.
I do not get that message .It works fine here.
You missed it. Google went malware crazy for about half an hour.
fox20thc 31-01-2009, 14:26 Big thread already discussing this very thing here
http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=452233
Well works ok for me lol
Me too, no problem.
Debbie22 31-01-2009, 14:36 it happened to me too and i noticed i had updates waiting to be installed on my laptop. i installed these and everything is fine now:huh:
Everything's working fine here.. Obviously fixed..
slimsid2000 31-01-2009, 14:50 I'm celibate but in good working order myself.
I wish I'd have found this thread earlier..
It did it to me too, and I was clicking all over the sodding place trying to find settings to change, clicking this, clicking that...:hihi:
I gave up in the end and came on here.. :D..
Seems to be back to normal now..:D..
Sketty24 31-01-2009, 15:47 it is htese posts are just part of a plot to get you. We are all working for the Russian secret service.
Who involved the Russians? :hihi:
Its was doing it at about 1am last night, and up till about 2:30pm today for me.. seems fine now though, Its the new 'safe search' they are adding, they were meant to be rolling the beta today, but seems as though something went wrong and it was logging every site as potentially dangerous.
you need to check your windows firewall is switched on this happened earlier to our comp i checked firewall and it had been disabled for some reason i switched it back on and everything is back to normal
An explanation. Human error (http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/this-site-may-harm-your-computer-on.html).
What happened? Very simply, human error. Google flags search results with the message "This site may harm your computer" if the site is known to install malicious software in the background or otherwise surreptitiously. We do this to protect our users against visiting sites that could harm their computers. 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.
warhawk123 01-02-2009, 17:59 seems to be working all right for me
There's another thread about this, i'll find it shortly.
A google employee made a massive cockup it's cost them millions if not billions. He only meant to block one site lol
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