Something up with Google search!!!!

clkaz

babyj3 wrote: »

I am still getting the message that 'this site may harm your computer' even for MSE and Tesco

sorry 2 hear, errm..... well mine is working now.... honestly have no idea why
!

penguin83

Mines doing it too - OH has just run some Malwarebytes programme or something (can you tell Im not techie!) so at least we know its not just us! x

babyj3

just checked agian and it is now OK - thank goodness as I am not techie either and was beginning to think I should log off as I was rather afraid to be online in case of the potential 'damage' - thanks for your help and advice much appreciated to know I wasn't alone

devizes18193

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/31/google_malware_snafu/

LeLLe

Phew, glad its not just me having this either!

iceburn

This explain what was going on

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2009/01/google_this_internet_will_harm.html?wprss=securityfix

But in summary

"A glitch in a computer security program embedded deeply into Google's search engine briefly prevented users of the popular search engine from visiting any Web sites turned up in search results this morning. Instead, visitors were redirected to page that warned visitors: "This site may harm your computer."

The problem, which appears to have been corrected by the time of publication, was related to Google's "Stop Badware" program, which is designed to keep Internet users from visiting sites that Google's bots have found try to install malicious software when users browse the sites."

clkaz

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7862840.stm