[agentcloud]

Was going to post this in Computer Tech but I figured this section would get more traffic.

So.. has anyone run any searches on google.com within the past hour? All the results are listed as "This site may harm your computer." If I click any of the links google brings up I get taken to another warning page.

Looks kind of fishy.. the results are all trying to point towards another site stopbadware.org and apparently that's an initiative started by Harvard and Oxford computer scientists???

[DJJS1]

I get the same thing too... google.ca

every single site I submit results in a malware report and can not be properly redirected.

[3seriesBeeM]

ahahaha i was just gonna post this up I am at work and usually like to go through google to come to revscene and than it come up with the message that this site may be harmful to your computer WTF is going on youd think google would have some pretty tight security and stuff being the big ass site it is

[agentcloud]

ran a search on yahoo for "google hacked" and this was the first result

Google
n0rM4L s34rCh Im4635 6r00pZ d1r3c70rY. 5|6|\| ||\| 4|| 480u7 Google - Google.com in English ...www.google.com/intl/xx-hacker - Cached - More from this site

i suppose that's l337 speak for "normal search images groups directory"

curious and curiouser..

[avinayyar]

Definitely hacked:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v472/notoriousformula/Picture1-13.png

[mmmk]

when i search for things, other than vancouver, i dont get that "This site may harm your computer." warning.

Confused!!

[JHuJHu]

^ me too. i don't get that warning either,.

[Djiban]

looks normal to me

[B4N M3]

guess they fixed it by now :)

why would anyone hack it on a Saturday morning? I don't think too many ppl are cruising it...unless they were gonna catch the 10 a.m. in the east crowd...but you'd think a Friday/Saturday night would be more effective...

[SkinnyPupp]

Why is it that when some general error occurs, people assume it's a "hack"?

[The_AK]

guess they fixed it by now :)

why would anyone hack it on a Saturday morning? I don't think too many ppl are cruising it...unless they were gonna catch the 10 a.m. in the east crowd...but you'd think a Friday/Saturday night would be more effective...

i'd say monday morning (pacific time)
that way any businesses using google around north america will experience this bs and will question it

[Lomac]

guess they fixed it by now :)

why would anyone hack it on a Saturday morning? I don't think too many ppl are cruising it...unless they were gonna catch the 10 a.m. in the east crowd...but you'd think a Friday/Saturday night would be more effective...

You know there's more to the world than just North America, right? Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia... they're all in afternoon/evening time periods. If there was a "hacker," it could very easily have been from any one of those places.

[InvisibleSoul]

http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5hbkDi2WizwlsU_t-UNG-G3KA1LTQ

Google Search results in warning, 'This site may harm your computer'
1 hour ago

Google says sorry for the goof.

If you did a Google Internet search between 9:30 a.m. ET and 10:25 a.m. ET on Saturday, you likely were unable to access any website in the search results list.

Google labelled all websites, even www.google.ca, as a malicious website with the warning "This site may harm your computer."

Clicking the warning took the user to a page which explained that "This warning message appears with search results we've identified as sites that may install malicious software on your computer."

Google later said the problem occurred because of "human error" and issued an apology.

Google flags search results with a warning message if a site is known to install malicious software in the background or otherwise surreptitiously.

During a routine update to a list of so-called badware sites, Google said a symbol was checked off by mistake that expanded the warning to all URL'S.

"This was clearly an error," said Google spokeswoman Marissa Mayer in a posting on the official Google blog. "We are very sorry for the inconvenience caused to our users, and to site owners whose pages were incorrectly labelled."

Google says it will carefully investigate the incident and promises more robust file checks will be put in place to prevent it from happening again.

[rental_metard]

http://blog.stopbadware.org/2009/01/31/google-glitch-causes-confusion