Google Malware Warning Fucked up?
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I don’t know when this thing happened exactly, but I noticed it around 10:57 pm MYT (GMT+8) when I was searching information for Yaesu VX8R handheld radio.
It seems somehow the Google Malware Warning fucked up and labels all the search result as “may harm your computer”. Funny thing is, Google labels its own website as potentially spreading malware.
Google Calendar site is spreading malware?
This incident has showed me how reliant to Google i’ve become, which made me wonder what would happen if suddenly somebody might take advantage of our dependency to Google, and do nasty things to us and to our data? By the way, Google already know what you do, who you are, and where you live.
Update: This event has been slashdotted, MAKE Magazine blog also covered the story.
Update 2: Google somehow have fixed the issue at 11:22 pm MYT (GMT +8). Let’s see what they would say about this strange phenomenon.
Update 3: Thanks to Manley, it seems Google has not fixed the issue, but rather disabled the Malware warning on its search result.
Final Update : Google issued a statement in their official blog as well as StopBadware.org
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February 1st, 2009 at 12:01 am
oh yeah i get that all the time
i wonder how they get that work…
February 1st, 2009 at 12:12 am
It does not look to be repaired, rather disabled – the malware filter is not working at all now.
February 1st, 2009 at 12:44 am
It’s still showing up on Webmaster Tools. Real comforting.
February 1st, 2009 at 3:34 am
Ya, whatever I searched turned up dangerous website. However, the problem has been fixed almost instantly.
February 1st, 2009 at 9:43 am
Google has explained it at their google blog. human error was the cause.
February 27th, 2009 at 1:38 pm
Google has some good tools,i like it.
March 12th, 2009 at 7:52 am
It’s still hilarious. You would think that someone would have noticed or at least tested the new URL’s that they were putting in.
August 14th, 2009 at 1:47 am
it’s not solved at all, my web site is unatteinable becuase of this malware message. I make it with iWEB … What the F*****?