Google’s “this site may harm your computer” warning
Has anyone seen this before?
This is the first time I’ve seen a safe search warning. From Google:
- “We want our users to feel safe when they search the web, and we’re continuously working to identify dangerous sites and increase protection for our users. This warning message appears with search results we’ve identified as sites that may install malicious software on your computer.”
Here are the follow up messages… wow, this is very cool. Right?
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How do I get rid of these safe search warning? They are annoying as hell.
Comment by Jon — January 31, 2009 @ 2:48 pm
I think that Google dropped the ball on this “feature”. I cannot see any non technical user figuring this out.
Comment by Kev — January 31, 2009 @ 2:49 pm
I’m getting the same message. I had to use yahoo.com to find out what’s going on.
I thought it was just me…
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000859.html
Comment by Johnny — January 31, 2009 @ 2:54 pm
Today (31 Jan 2009) is the first time I have see the warning
under every search result. Using Ubuntu. See it also on
my husbands Windows.
Comment by MJohnson — January 31, 2009 @ 2:58 pm
Now its showing up in every google search result! on Sat Jan 31, 2009 @ 10AM
They are going crazy!!!
Comment by Carlos Loeza — January 31, 2009 @ 3:01 pm
well … all the pages that I am trying to visit now have this
warning and I can’t visit any site anymore!
Does anyone know anything about this?
Comment by scuty — January 31, 2009 @ 3:10 pm
everything today results in that…. used to only see it for actually bad sites.. major problems it seems
Comment by josh — January 31, 2009 @ 3:13 pm
Just now 31-Jan-09, 11:00pm Google got bug on “this site may harm your computer” i also notice this, and in fact I capture the screens in my blog here : http://www.buwenjames.com/2009/01/31/google-say...
however, after 20 minutes, this error is fixed
seems this affect the google data centres accrosss the whole world, including here, Malaysia.
James – A Malaysian guy
Comment by Malaysian Chinese — January 31, 2009 @ 4:23 pm