Troubles in Google-land
Try googling any topic this morning. You’ll see the following warning underneath each search result: “Warning – visiting this website may harm your computer”. Screen shots below:
When you happen to click on any link – even known good ones (a video on Google’s own server), you get this message:
Now, is it me, or is something seriously screwed up?
-Krishna
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qka
January 31, 2009 at 10:26 amThis is no longer happening (or at least it didn’t for me).
Jaanus
January 31, 2009 at 10:27 amYes, the Google is screwed. I’m sure it will be fixed by monday, if not we have an apocalypse…
Klas
January 31, 2009 at 10:28 amThey fixed it ten minutes ago or so.
Farinha
January 31, 2009 at 10:31 amIt did happen for about 15 minutes, but now it seems to be solved. We can all breathe out again :P
trinalin
January 31, 2009 at 10:37 amCheck to see if the hover link matches the the actual URL – I had a nasty virus take over my browser which did something similar (always redirected to some go.google.something or other) and I noticed when I moved my mouse cursor over the link that Google created, it didn’t say the same thing as what google said I was going to visit.
trinalin
January 31, 2009 at 10:48 amOr it could simply be this:
http://techfragments.com/news/353/Tech/Google_Implementing_Anti-Malware_Feature_in_Search_Results.html
Ooops, google!
qka
February 2, 2009 at 1:25 amGoogle’s official explanation:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/this-site-may-harm-your-computer-on.html