Saturday, January 31, 2009

Google can harm your computer

Seen today on Google search:

[caption id="attachment_152" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Screenshot of a Google search on 2009-01-31"]Screenshot of a Google search on 2009-01-31[/caption]

And when you click on the first result:

[caption id="attachment_153" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Warning shown when you follow the "Google" link in the search results"]Warning shown when you follow the "Google" link in the search results[/caption]

I guess I should stop using Google to protect my computer. :-)

Update: Looks like I'm not the only one affected. See #googmayharm on Twitter. Techcrunch is already covering this.

4 comments:

  1. funny thing, once is ok and second search throws this error, must be some data centers problem

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  2. The program google uses to scan websites for harmful content was down for a bit this morning, so... no hacks, no worries.

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