Google Marks every page as Harmful?

by Gameking7 Jan 30, 2009 10:59PM PST

I know this is a bit off topic but it is news, I guess.
I typed in CNET.com this morning into Google and was Greeted by a big fat "This site may harm your computer", I thought that can't be right, so I typed in Youtube just to check, and guess what I got the same error. I use Firefox, but the same thing happened in Chrome(Googles own browser)IE and Opera. Do any of you think it might be a rouge employee or they got hacked? Just thought that might be interesting. (BTW: I got here through Yahoo because of the error I explained).

-Xaox

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Google went nuts?

by byandreasdotcom Jan 30, 2009 11:12PM PST

We get the same result here too... google is unusable! What is going on?

http://www.byandreas.com/checkthisout/google_-_Google_Search-20090131-100531.png

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google site is harmful, too

by tvillafl Jan 30, 2009 11:15PM PST

I also saw every site tagged harmful. I tried searching for Google itself and Google's own site came up as harmful using Chrome.

The Malware warning is breaking Google.

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It's a huge (albeit most likely temporary) snafu for Google!

by Slikkster Jan 30, 2009 11:19PM PST

http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/31/1457221

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Update

by Gameking7 Jan 30, 2009 11:24PM PST

For me anyways its not an issue anymore it stopped doing it.
Thanks for the quick reply's guys!
Rock On Buzz Town!

-Xaox

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Use YAHOO SEARCH

by bently Jan 30, 2009 11:29PM PST

This started today... using Google Search, ALL the hits have the following message... "THIS SITE MAY HARM YOUR COMPUTER"

I can search using YAHOO SEARCH and do not get the warning message.

Ben

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Well Your Right

by Gameking7 Jan 30, 2009 11:31PM PST

But Why would you use Yahoo, wasn't there some study that said it had the highest rating for giving Malware results? Please Correct me if I'm wrong.

-Xaox

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Looks Fixed...

by tvillafl Jan 30, 2009 11:51PM PST

... but fun while it lasted.

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(NT) Can never be too careful

by Nicholas Buenk Jan 31, 2009 2:12AM PST

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Same here!

by CMalburn Jan 31, 2009 2:55AM PST

I did actually search for "crash barrier" (because for Physics school work, I need to find out how exactly they work on the roads), and even the wikipedia article was blocked, as was all of the results, but after the 3rd refresh, in Safari at least, it followed the link... What's going on at google?

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I wish I could help...

by Gameking7 Jan 31, 2009 3:25AM PST

I'm sorry, I can't help, How bout your try using a different search engine, besides Yahoo, they'll reset your Home Page. Its fine for me, Maybe clear your cache, cookies etc. and reboot. That's what I did and it works fine.

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Google says - Human Error

by tvillafl Jan 31, 2009 5:29AM PST

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

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We want names :)

by byandreasdotcom Jan 31, 2009 5:31AM PST

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All anyone had to do was

by Slikkster Jan 31, 2009 6:50AM PST

take a search result and lop off the Google Interstitial header that was coming up to go directly to the site. A pain , yes. But it only lasted a half hour or so.

Huge headline still on Drudge as I write this at 5:50 pm Eastern time.

"GOOGLE GOES MAD!"

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