Has Google become incredibly paranoid?

[panoz7]

What program do you utilize to preform that edit on the Google page with the arrows?

I'm really glad nobody told you to google it.

 

[bigandy]

Some people seem to be having issues figuring out how to work around the issue.

Just take the following part out of the URL it lands on:

http://www.google.com/interstitial?url=

 

[velocityg4]

I have been getting this too. However if you do a Google search through the Firefox Google start page everything is fine. It seems to be the main Google pages are screwed up.

 

[tigres]

I'm really glad nobody told you to google it.

I was actually waiting for the first smart *** to go there, I left myself wide open on that one.

 

[air-ick]

This is a huge screw up by google. my mom called and asked what she should do. i had her type yahoo.com in the browser and save it as her default page. she probably won't change it - lost business for google - i'm sure she's not the only one.

Eric

 

[rdowns]

I was actually waiting for the first smart *** to go there, I left myself wide open on that one.

I must admit, I was tempted.

 

[JNB]

Yup, just encountered this in the last five minutes. Googling for Apple, Dell, and Microsoft were fine, but then MR and "Camera" return universally the error. Seems lik it's entirely on Google's side, and not browser or ISP specific.

 

[tigres]

Working again

I must admit, I was tempted.

It's fixed folks... try google now

 

[cfs]

thanks. good to know.

 

[air-ick]

It's fixed now.

Eric

 

[sheepopo39]

This WOULD happen to Google

 

[G.T.]

It was me

Sorry guys but I had to prove once and for all that typing google into google does break the internet. .

 

[joelovesapple]

Thank GOD for that!

 

[Blakely028]

Ha, this is quite weird. Thought it was just me until I saw this thread

Even Google Mail is at it! I can't look at images in my emails because it tells me that the emailer might not be the real person! Hahaha

 

[RedTomato]

Here's the explanation from Google's official blog:

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

Basically someone typed a single wrong character on a single line in an update file that was sent to Google's malware utility. This effectively took down the internet for millions of people across the world, as well as disrupting Gmail and other Google services for millions of accounts.

It's become global news.

"This site may harm your computer" on every search result?!?!

1/31/2009 09:02:00 AM

If you did a Google search between 6:30 a.m. PST and 7:25 a.m. PST this morning, you likely saw that the message "This site may harm your computer" accompanied each and every search result. This was clearly an error, and we are very sorry for the inconvenience caused to our users.

What happened? Very simply, human error. Google flags search results with the message "This site may harm your computer" if the site is known to install malicious software in the background or otherwise surreptitiously. We do this to protect our users against visiting sites that could harm their computers. We maintain a list of such sites through both manual and automated methods. We work with a non-profit called StopBadware.org to come up with criteria for maintaining this list, and to provide simple processes for webmasters to remove their site from the list.

We periodically update that list and released one such update to the site this morning. Unfortunately (and here's the human error), the URL of '/' was mistakenly checked in as a value to the file and '/' expands to all URLs. Fortunately, our on-call site reliability team found the problem quickly and reverted the file. Since we push these updates in a staggered and rolling fashion, the errors began appearing between 6:27 a.m. and 6:40 a.m. and began disappearing between 7:10 and 7:25 a.m., so the duration of the problem for any particular user was approximately 40 minutes.

Thanks to our team for their quick work in finding this. And again, our apologies to any of you who were inconvenienced this morning, and to site owners whose pages were incorrectly labelled. We will carefully investigate this incident and put more robust file checks in place to prevent it from happening again.

Thanks for your understanding.

Update at 10:29 am PST: This post was revised as more precise information became available (changes are in blue). Here's StopBadware's explanation.

Posted by Marissa Mayer, VP, Search Products & User Experience

 

[liptonlover]

I'm absolutely fine... I tried with opera and safari, neither gave me a warning.

 

[michaelsviews]

Here's the explanation from Google's official blog:

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

Basically someone typed a single wrong character on a single line in an update file that was sent to Google's malware utility. This effectively took down the internet for millions of people across the world, as well as disrupting Gmail and other Google services for millions of accounts.

It's become global news.

Hey Sh_t happens , its called human error, and I applaud Google for the above mentioned.

 

[liptonlover]

... or.... google just doesn't want to admit they got hacked.