All Google Search Results: "This site may harm your computer."

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Error is fixed and seems to be propogating to resolution

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The reports I am getting (and my direct observation) is that it is
now fixed.

Marshall

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Google's back on my connection on Verizon in the Northeast US.

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google;s back on India too!!!

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Done on Indonesia...

S, Somasundaram (Somasundaram) wrote:

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This morning whilest Googling, I got a bunch of "Permission Denied" to

"/interstitial?..." URLs on Google.

Then all my search results got listed as "This site may harm your
computer."

Yes, I got it for a search link to wikipedia and to my own sites.

I am cynical; I would guess that there is some for-pay "web site blessed by
Google"
certificate coming.

AFDB | Building works for me, I believe it may also work
for you.

/vijay

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This morning whilest Googling, I got a bunch of "Permission Denied" to
"/interstitial?..." URLs on Google.

Then all my search results got listed as "This site may harm your
computer."

Yes, I got it for a search link to wikipedia and to my own sites.

I am cynical; I would guess that there is some for-pay "web site blessed by Google"
certificate coming.

AFDB | Building works for me, I believe it may also work for you.

Aluminium foil will certainly block RFID's, so they may become a fashion statement soon enough.

Marshall

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FYI, the official explanation has been posted:

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

Damian

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Sounds like a whitelist of URLs to check against the blacklist would be
appropriate here.

I know that content-filtering company 8e6 had a problem over 2 years ago
with some good well-known sites. Somewhere around that time they hardcoded
categories for the top 500 sites, so that if something slipped through the
cracks again, the impact would be smaller.

Frank

30

You know, I recently started turning off safe-site checks to stopbadware.

Never mind this incident, I've noticed *a lot* of sites getting blocked arbitrarily. Checking the site for reasons gives only the most tenuous reasoning, and on a number of occasions misspellings of the site I was actually visiting (as in, it was blocking the site I wanted based on a similarly or misspelt version being bad).

I do think Firefox for one misappropriates the accuracy of the system. Essentially it is allowing one site to dictate what their users can view.

Anyway, my 2c rant on web blacklists..

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I think they clarify what happened here and are pretty straight up about it.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/01/technology/internet/01google.html?hp

-henry

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Anyone seeing phishing alerts for senders in this thread?

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3080/3243440012_d1f6f1e5e7_o.png

-Chris

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Yes.

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This is directly related to the corrupted malware database. During
that time, some messages were incorrectly marked as phishing. Gmail
eng is currently working on a way to get those messages re-scanned,
but in the meantime you may want to check your spam folder for any
urgent messages you're missing:

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/this-mornings-spam-filter-issue.html

Damian