Every site may harm your computer. (Thinks Google)
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Jan 09 Filed in GeneralSomething strange has happened to Google. All links in search results are marked as harmful. I checked from both Windows and Linux machine so spyware interference is very unlikely. Must be a Google’s bug.
Google thinks Google may harm your computer.
What’s going on? Any idea?
P.S. Unmask Parasites still works fine and correctly displays whether a site is really marked as suspicious or not. Hope the Google’s bug won’t propagate with the next blacklist update.
Hope this issue will be resolved soon too.
Update 3 (human error): Google has posted an official explanation:
… 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.
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good job bro, at that time my web got that msg too. i was surprise, but then it just dissapear :P. google jokes