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Google Search Flagging Everything As Potentially Harmful
dowlingw writes "It looks like for the moment at least, all Google results are failing the malware checks and being listed with a warning 'This site may harm your computer,' including all pages from Google themselves. Users trying to visit pages at search results will only be able to proceed via manual manipulation of the search result link to remove the Google click-through (which is also broken). Until Google fixes this bug, it looks Google web search is useless." Update: 01/31 at 15:16 GMT by SS: The problem now appears to be fixed.
Update: 01/31 at 22:01 GMT by KD : Google has now posted an explanation, apologizing and taking responsibility for the "human error" that led to the problem.
Update: 01/31 at 22:01 GMT by KD : Google has now posted an explanation, apologizing and taking responsibility for the "human error" that led to the problem.
Who googled google..
Don't panic
Every single search result. Amazing.
You can still copy and paste the address under the link.
Skynet - er, Google - has become self-aware and has deemed that the entire Internet is harmful to us power sour - I mean, humans, and is protecting us for some reason it has not divulged yet...
rm
Sci-Fi Storm
Google reports that google.com is malware!
It should be fixed by the time most people read this.
Results from Adsense which appear at the top aren't getting flagged as malicious, so advertisers are at least free from the damage (but not on their regular indexed link).
When the foot seeks the place of the head, the line is crossed. Know your place. Keep your place. Be a shoe.
It isn't entirely useless, you can still get the link for your results, it is just overly annoying. I also found that it was NOT flagging youtube sites, which I found interesting.
Redirect Remover
I don't want to use Yahoo and I'd rather turn off my computer than use Microsoft's Live search.
Time to see if Alta Vista still exists.
I knew the Internet was bad for you!
Now Google confirms it!
SSC
I noticed. I went to slashdot for some answers, knowing there would be a post any moment about it.
I always knew that all those sites could ham my computer. Finally Google proves my fears.
...is a longstanding liberal tradition. Unless you know your action perfectly safe, you should be warned and even prevented from doing it. Why would anyone have a problem with this? What are you, some kind of expert?
I just tried to enter a word to find the definition and pronunciation, and saw that Wikipedia and wiki dictionary and all other sites are listed as potentially harmful.
So long as they fix it and leave places like the Discovery Institute and PETA with this warning, we should be OK.
This is the first time in roughly 5 years that I have used a search engine other than Google. In 5 years I have used many different Operating Systems and types of software but Google has always been the search engine of choice.
So I heard Google was having some layoffs recently...
nt
I'm glad I'm not THAT guy... Resume: 2009 - Brokeded Google.
Looks pretty sick. The diagnostic page is returning 502 errors:
http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=http://www.google.com/
Slashdot is slow here at the moment. Have millions of disappointed searchers turned here for consolation?
I have.
Also, the sites
www.stopbadware.org/
and
www.google.at/support/bin/answer.py?answer=45449&topic=360&hl=de&sa=X&oi=malwarewarninglink&resnum=1&ct=help
were slashdotted before this was even on slashdot ...
NB: The message above might reflect my opinion right now, but not necessarily tomorrow or next year.
Good thing Slashdot is around so I don't have to waste my time debugging my side :)
This feature, no doubt implemented with good intentions, show the perils of the nanny state so many politicians all over the world are proposing. Why should Google police the internet?
They should act like the phone company used to be, a common carrier just sending through the information, for better or worse.
Of course, I understand that Google isn't an ISP, so the "common carrier" principle does not apply. They are just providing a service for me, without charging me directly. But the principle is the same, if I wanted some sort of protection from malware there are many places where I can get it by asking, I do not need to be protected involuntarily.
Google use stopbadware.org to check if a site is bad or not - this site is down.
I think it should work when it's back up.
The fire sale attack has begun. We're all doomed. If anyone needs me I will be in my basement with my canned goods and crank CB radio.
Screencap within
Wow! Yahoo looks a lot different than it used to.
No AdSense ads are displaying, at least for several popular advertising keywords like "refinance".
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and enemy of growth. -JFK
If I'm nervous about the site, I look at Google's cache instead. Well, that's no longer available either. Sheesh!
Oh, yeah, it's not easy to pad these out to 120 characters.
Finally, a company just comes out and says what we all know: the entire Internet is dangerous and must be stopped.
I didn't think I would be so impeded by lack of google until I actually lost the ability to use it.
I think Microsoft finally found a way to get MSN search used. They bribed Badware.org to flag every site as infected so Google Search is worthless.
Don't anthropomorphize computers. They *hate* that.
Has anyone considered the possibility that as of this morning 95% of the sites on the Internet are infected with malware?
sPh
a sabotage by some google employee who's on the "to be fired" list?
It even flagged http://abc.net.au/ which is the website for Australia's Public TV Broadcaster ... the only risk from that site is being bored to somnolence ... ... gotta keep them revenues rolling in!
but not the sponsored links
Don't blame me, it's usually 2 in the morning when I post
Can you guys hear that? It's the sound of rolling heads.
...The Day the Google Died.
And I thought it was because of that pron that i've downloaded overnight....
a new search engine that isn't run by adds. One that isnt't such a piece of shit like google. But why bother - you dolts can only comment and click around - the true genius has left the internet long ago; And you people are what remains.
Yay! I'm finally out of beta!
This guy's the limit!
posting anonymously as I have problems creating an account (invalid form key).
http://picasaweb.google.com/chengkiang/Misc#5297473344174050834
Found myself using yahoo's search engine for the first time since forever. Perhaps this is Yang's way of boosting their stock?
Someone is so getting fired for this.
This is the first Google effective downtime in my memory.. Were there other ones that anyone can think of?
There are screenshots of what this looks like if you are not able to see the antimalware feature in action in your search results. http://techfragments.com/news/353/Tech/Google_Implementing_Anti-Malware_Feature_in_Search_Results.html
This is what happens get when (collectively) we try too hard to coddle the idiots will believe anything, click on anything, and download anything.
I don't know about you, but it would seem that Google was hacked. Even the search support page doesn't work.
It's like in Futurama. Santa Claus (aka Google) realises no site around lives up to it's expectations, except Zoiberg of course.
the end of days. :(
Dang...I thought we had till December 2012
nothing to see here. Move on..
to Vista server... Looks like yahoo and MS really do have a deal.
flinging poop since 1969
so i get up this morning and start googling. whaaaaat? even cnn is malware today. thank god i decided to hit /. to see if anyone else was getting this, i figured if it was google wide, someone here would post it. saved me lots of scanning and wondering wtf is wrong with my pc.
But now I'm back to unfiltered content, the WWW as it was meant to be :)
"The likes of Facebook and WhatsApp are free to those whose privacy is of zero value."
Google's definition of words is continually evolving. 'Evil' was, as older readers may remember, one of the first to mutate. Now it looks like 'harm' is on the move, too, and will soon join its little relatives 'fun', 'tax' and 'useful' in Google's rehabilitation centre for disadvantaged words.
That was weird.
Google is admitting they are indeed very evil: http://luaz.blogspot.com/2009/01/google-says-they-are-indeed-evil.html
Google will pretend they didn't get owned so their stock doesn't drop.
Can't wait 'til they lie about it.
Yahoo! hacked Google in a desperate attempt to get more viewers.
my opportunity to freely express myself with the potential persecution and hangings and such
yaus, it's fixed.
time is 10:15AM in Toronto.
Heh heh ... after the entire Known Universe jumped on their ass for their bug, the "feature" is turned off.
Or it was my "You silly bastards" message ...
Toad-san
From NY on CableVision in Firefox.
How long before google starts telling me I can't read my gmail messages :)
http://www.google.co.nz/interstitial?url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Apps
Reveals:
/interstitial?url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Apps from this server.
Forbidden
Your client does not have permission to get URL
Multiply the minutes lost by the number of people searching, and we're looking at _lot_ of lost time.
Someone else can do the calculation, but even at $10 dollars an hour, that's a lot of money.
The real economic cost of this also includes the lost reputation (good will) to Google as well.
I hope this is incompetence. It could be worse than that.
I'm not having problems when I'm signed in to google.
Ours dropped by about 30% around 1400 UTC ;)
Just got a phone call from my mum, distressed her fav sites are now all very dangerous to visit...! Just so funny
Try making a search on your search term (say c#). Press search and you will usually see the "can be harmful bla bla".
BUT then press refresh in your browser (in some cases you will need to do this more than once) - AND Voila! You all of a sudden get your search results without the "harmful bla bla". Press refresh again then and it migh go back to the useless "harmfull bla bla" search results.
REALLY strange.
It works again!
Searching for porn, strangely enough, returns good results.
YESS, the internet IS for porn......
It is fixed now, after a few F5 and it is back to normal.
So it's not my firefox/windows/router/isp dns cache being poisoned and directing me to a government controlled evil Google clone?
The other possibility was the evil overlords were stopping me from to figuring out how to mount my pirated copy of F.E.A.R. (Yeah, someone lost disk 5/5 of the legitimate copy.)
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog . . .
Which means we can't even conveniently find aggregated news about Google being hosed.
I started my first search of the day by trying to remember how to override a CSS property with the span tag. I noticed all results were flagged - I was wondering when HTML became so dangerous!
Anywho, after seeing it was with all sites, checking against other computers and networks, I figured it was Google's fault. I then realized I completely depended on Google for searching. I had no idea what the kids were using these days besides Google. So I typed in "search engines" to see what popped up. Turns out people still use Yahoo and Ask.com, and MSN. But man, it felt weird searching the web without Google.
This is all over the NANOG list, with positive reports of the trouble from all over the planet.
Google seems to now be working again. ::chuckles::
As of 10:18 PM in my time zone, 20 minutes after the article was posted, Google is working fine again. We posted a whole Slashdot article and had a huge discussion about a Google bug that got fixed in a matter of minutes.
to protect everyone from themselves. and let government tell them what is good for them.
oh well, i'll stick with 1.) :D
:/
btw.: Where to search now? Yahoo? Mycrosoft Live *shudder*?
yayyyyy!!!!!!
flinging poop since 1969
ALL GOOD NOW!! i can get back to googling myself..
FIX IT!
Step 1 - FIX
Step 2 - IT
Step 3 - FIX IT!
A few minutes ago I got the 'This site may harm your computer.' warnings but it seems to be fixed now.
Oh no, google AI has self awareness! Its Judgment day!
--
So who is hotter? Ali or Ali's Sister?
Google Search seems to be working just fine now. Whatever caused the problem, they seem to have fixed it.
Power does not corrupt - power attracts the corrupt.
Google web search seems back to normal. Actually no -- now it has Promote/Remove/Comment links next to search results. Maybe it was an upgrade hickup or some precautionary thing while upgrading.
That is just classic, haha, someone will loose job.
I was googling "Android" and I couldn't enter any page. However, all of my bookmarks worked well, so my guess was that google wrongly classified "Android" as some badware! :D Wanted even to submit this as news here on /. but then I have noticed this story and truth was even more funny than I thought :D
Looks like they just fixed it (around 3:20 GMT)
google.com seems to be working fine again
As of this moment, Google is working normally again - and there is a link to their new service, Knol : http://knol.google.com/k
Cuban Music MP3's - cuband.com
I googled my school name, Sheridan college. And all the search results from the Sheridan domain were not tagged as harmful. Try playing around with it.
I used http://us.ixquick.com/eng/privacy-policy.html with no problems at all and no retention of data problems.
It's fixed for the most common search terms, but it still seems to be filtering down for some less commonly searched terms. Interesting what this reveals about the Google caching/optimization architecture.
and unplug the server?
Mod me up/Mod me down: I wont frown as I've no crown
Just in case anyone missed it, here is a screen grab.
http://i41.tinypic.com/fv8rph.png
looks like all google is down :-( google.ca was working for some time when google.com was having issues
the one with Letterman says "imagine what the world would be like without TV", and then you get a couple of seconds of nothing, then Letterman appears again and says "scary, wasnt it?"
This has to be the most epic fail by google for a while. I must admit I found this seriously amusing - also my lack of knowing other search engines frightend me *goes to compile emergency search engine list*
If you know nothing you evidently are not interested.
This thing resulted as a direct result of: http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/ being broke. I think.
The results get run through safe browsing...which broke - marking all results as UNSAFE.
That page was giving a 502 HTTPD error before. for now, it's a 404 NOT FOUND error.
60% drop in share price.
In soviet russia, the share drops you.
to be fine now. :p
You can't take the sky from me.
Google seems to have fixed itself around 1025 EST, which is unfortunate in a way - I would have preferred a more prime-time meltdown. This is not because I wish particularly ill on them, but because too many people drink the kool-aid and it's good to have a reminder of Google's mortal fallibility once in a while. ;)
Even as you read this, your pants are strangling your loins! Aaa!
Microsoft.com...this site may harm your computer. Apple.com, symantec.com, wikipedia.
Lucy, you got a lot of 'splainin to do.
That's our life, the big wheel of shit. - The Fat Man, Blue Tango Salvage
serials.ws is now no longer showing as harmful. It seems like they disabled the engine entirely.
Viable Slashdot alternatives: https://pipedot.org/ and http://soylentnews.org/
Southern Ontario (Canada) here. It's 10:20 EST and it's fixed.
At least it failsafes to every site being flagged. Much better than it just letting people get malware ridden sites.
"We need to get over this notion, that, for Apple to win... Microsoft must lose." - Steve Jobs, 1997
This has been a coordinated monthly test of the Emergency Google Broadcasting System. Equipment that can quickly warn you during malware and phishing attempts is being tested. If this had been an actual emergency such as an attempt to visit a bank phishing site, Google Messages would have followed the alert tone. This concludes this test of the Emergency Google Broadcasting System."
my opportunity to freely express myself with the potential persecution and hangings and such
i would otherwise never have ventured into using anything else for search.
just wondering how many hardcore google users like me switched to yahoo in the mean time, and were pleasantly surprised ...
gmail crash ... now search issue ... what next?
is google really as reliable as we tend to believe it to be?
Today, Google announced that Google is still in beta...
I saw this about 10 minutes after this started, and did a twitter search on "google". this tweet was the first published result anywhere in the world about the failure.
Interestingly enough, google ad results didn't throw up the warning. I guess malware authors now know how to spread their wares without google bothering them. ("Take out ads in google, instantly become a more attractive target for criminals"?)
Screenshot Digg it, if you want.
Clear your cookies if you're still facing this problem.
Was installing Chrome on my laptop and got that error message. "www.google.com/chrome may be malware!"
Gee, don't be so hard on yourself, Google. I'm sure you have some good points.
The funny thing is I googled "google everything is malware" to see if anyone else was noticing this. Yes, boards were indexed with the discussion but I had to manually cut and paste the urls to read threads.
Kwisatz Haderach
Sell the spice to CHOAM
This Mahdi took Shaddam's Throne
...or did they just turn it off... can anyone find a site that has (and should have) the warning?
Select the address and right click -> Go To URL (or whatever it is in the English version)
I starting seeing this problem around 8:30 am est and tried to search the web for information about it, to see if it was something specific to my computer/isp/settings.
I guess that is a big limitation of the internet - it's very hard to find information about events as they happen since:
1. Search indexes need to be updated, which takes time
2. Community sites need to wait for stories to be submitted and edited or dug up
3. Major news organizations only rush stories with mass appeal.
I haven't used IRC in a while - maybe it would be better for disseminating breaking tech news? (or I should check out twitter)
Although I'll agree that I doubt anybody is going to get fired - or even demoted - over this (even if the cause must have been something rather silly), I do think there's a big difference between google not being available and google labeling perfectly normal sites as possibly hosting malware.
Say I wasn't aware of this issue (somehow not noticing that -everything- was being flagged), and I visited my bank.. now I call my bank in a worry, wonder if they are still as secure as they claim to be - the bank then has to go out of their way to reassure me that, yes, things are okay.. even if Google says otherwise ..so just continue onward.
Oh, but now my bank told me that even if Google says something is malware, there's a chance it isn't.. so next time Google warns me about malware.. should I just ignore it?
( of course a bank *should* be telling you to enter the main address of their site in the address bar, rather than 'continue onward' )
Anyway - thanks to whoever over there for fixing things.. presuming it was fixed and not just had everything now flagged as non-malware (even those that -do- (or did in the past 90(?) days) have malware)
It is good to use search engine alternatives, anyway. We shouldn`t have and use just one search engine in the world..
It seems to be working now for Google.com.
http://news.google.com/news?oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a&hl=en&um=1&tab=wn&nolr=1&q=google+malware&btnG=Search+News
Yowch.
For some searchs could fit the warning that could have malware. For others is almost unthinkable. But for some, you could end thinking that google is censoring something, maybe even leveraging its monopoly.
This caught me by surprise... wasnt aware of the problem, and my today search was simply about memcached, and, of course, all were marked as holding malware. One of the sites had a comment section, so could had some vulnerability that enabled visitors to post malware somewhat, or some botnet owner figured how to push phishing sites right to the top of search results, but when i found that the Wikipedia entry had that too conspiracy theories started to fly.
I suppose that mine was an average case, but for some searches the feeling could have been far worse.
Damn you, Google! I was freaking out this morning, trying to figure out what I'd done to cause this. I had been setting up PopFile and some other stuff, and thought this was my doing!
What's worse it that, on the "interstitial" page that appears for the filtered URLs, it informs you that you have choices, but then doesn't give you an easy way to actually choose the first of the two choices! It informs you that you can either "continue on" to the dangerous site or visit Google's analysis of why it's believed dangerous, but the URL of the site as displayed isn't a clickable hypertext link. (There's a link to that analysis, but that link was also dead.) The consequence was that, unless you cut-and-pasted the link back into the browser, you had no easy way to actually get to the page you desired. In my case I was able to double-click on the URLs and get to the pages, but I believe that was because of a specific browser extension I had installed.
I'm glad this was just a temporary bug, because I *never* want to see those broken "interstitial" pages again.
What is the world coming to?
hmm..
That'd probably be a welcome "feature", no? ;^)
You seem pretty upset yourself, pal.
-- http://ninthagenda.com/
I was trying to look up some information about the Windows API, and it said MSDN was potentially harmful. I was puzzled, because usually Google isn't quite so extraordinarily intelligent.
The way congress talks you would think it would be true.
---- Booth was a patriot ----
Fuckedcompany.com is down. I guess they were fucked!
The dangers of knowledge trigger emotional distress in human beings.
Slept in today and missed the fun. Oh well.
At that time I was doing searches about bittorrent clients. For a second I thought the RIAA/MPAA had bought Google or something.
I heard that Google Stock dropped to a result 1-10 from about 36,000,000 (in .08 seconds)
Google have explained the problem: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/this-site-may-harm-your-computer-on.html
This happened the day after the Googlewatch guy stepped down.
http://googlewatch.eweek.com/content/google_strategy/so_long_and_thanks_for_all_the_google_watching.html
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/this-site-may-harm-your-computer-on.html... We periodically receive updates to that list and received one such update to release on 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. ... ...
http://blog.stopbadware.org/2009/01/31/google-glitch-causes-confusion... Google generates its own list of badware URLs, and no data that we generate is supposed to affect the warnings in Google's search listings.
Here's the explanation from Google's official blog:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/this-site-may-harm-your-computer-on.html
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 work with a non-profit called StopBadware.org to get our list of URLs. StopBadware carefully researches each consumer complaint to decide fairly whether that URL belongs on the list. Since each case needs to be individually researched, this list is maintained by humans, not algorithms.
We periodically receive updates to that list and received one such update to release on 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.
... today!
--- I am known for the ones who want to find me on the net. Is that a privacy risk or a privilege? One might wonder..
... playing to be female and be real on the Internet ;)
--- I am known for the ones who want to find me on the net. Is that a privacy risk or a privilege? One might wonder..
As an Ubuntu (and soon also OS X) user, I don't want anyone wasting my time with malware warnings. Don't scan my mail, don't mark links, just let me be.
When I clicked on the link to find out what the problems were with the flagged site, I got a server error. I guess their malware checking server went down and so everything defaulted to that nasty message.
that the^H^H^HGoogle Earth stopped spinning for 15 minutes?
printf($randomline(sigs.txt) \n "-- "$randomline(authors.txt));
-- myself
even Google itself!!
So they better not go around blacklisting everyone on the web, sooner or later they'll find they've sued themselves too!
Doesn't bother me, If Google has reason to think a site is potentially harmful, I'd rather they tell me. Nothing nanny-ish about that. I'm happy someone told me not to drink out of the toilet or down a couple dozen Tylenol with a whisky chaser.
Google is just providing infomation. I'm still the one deciding how I behave.
-- Slashdot: When Public Access TV Says "No"
There's something wrong in the Force
They're all gonna laugh at you!
This may have already been posted (there are a lot of posts) According to AFP they accidentally included / in the list of "harmful" sites. Here's the story: http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5j4Sn-ehiL1W52Xn6UoqhUx2AQ_tw
Does anyone else here remember Lycos or Dogpile?
They still exist. No seriously, they do.
Better yet, remember when "The Internet" was out there and nobody really cared? The technology and like 60% of the infrastructure of today existed, but it wasn't really used for much other than email? At that time BBS's were more where you wanted to be. Aaaaanyway.....just a trip down memory lane before Google was everybody's homepage. Back to reality.
I agree that large / noticable Google outages are rare. But smaller ones (as the db is reloaded?) are quite common. I've seen searches return radically different results on the same keywords. Uusually winin a couple of hours, the results are back to "normal".
AFAIK, Google's db is RAM resident -- which is why it can return results _so_ fast. So I presume sometimes part of the dictionary is off-line when a machine crashs / locks-up or is overloaded and slow to respond. No big deal.
The oddest thing about this outage is that anyone cares. Why should it matter? Outages happen. The Internet was designed to be "nuke-proof" which conservely means outages must be expected. Route around them. Do something else. Single points-of-failure are bad.
He won't lose his job, though.
-B
Ash and Hickory, straight-grained and true, make excellent bludgeons, dandy for the cudgeling of vegetarians.
I half expected the Governor of California to show up at my doorstep.
This is not the Google you are looking for.
You can go about your business.
Move along.
Libel!
I'm rich! Hooray!
Task Mangler
After seeing the plethora of articles today about the 'panic' caused by a brief error (less than an hour)in Google Search's malware detection system, I have begun to wonder if this 'global upset' is due to what has effectively become a monoculture in the realm of search engines? Perhaps Google is too popular for our own good.
Power does not corrupt - power attracts the corrupt.
WARNING: Chemicals known to the State of California to cause cancer, or birth defects or other reproductive harm may be present in foods or beverages sold ...
Who let them in anyway!
Human error as usual.
We use some blacklist info, and this isn't the first problem we've had like that.
PhishTank updates their blacklist file every hour or so. But they don't do it as an atomic operation. It's possible for the file to change while someone is reading it. We've seen this happen. We've received zero-length files, and files with a break in the middle. We now read the file twice, thirty seconds apart, and compare. If they disagree, we reread every 30 seconds until we get two copies that match.
We have another periodic process that reads the SEC filing index and the NASDAQ ticker symbol list daily. About once a month, there's some kind of problem, other than a network error, with at least one of the files.
These are all public data files intended for machine processing and accessed with FTP, not ordinary web pages. You have to expect major data quality problems with these things.
Recently, we found a mail forwarder which was bouncing mail with the SMTP error "550 This message does not comply with required standards". That message is generated by a spam blocking program which is looking in the body of the message for things it doesn't like. One thing it didn't like was the URL "http://www.readthestimulus.org", a political site with a searchable copy of the U.S. economic stimulus bill. We and the people at the other end spent hours figuring this out. The deceptive error message didn't help.
So you have to sanity check blacklist data. There are serious data quality problems.
Ok, so my apt-get-fu might not be as strong as yours. I haven't heard of a --nuke_from_orbit function, although it might be a good option, if it really could get rid of some of those pesky problems on today's machines. However, wouldn't a nuke-from-orbit likely take out your house as well (assuming the machines you install or are given are local to you and your house)?
Generally speaking though, because perhaps there's something I'm not getting (is that a whoosh I hear), but isn't GDM a good thing? I thought you had to have it to login to Gnome or the like. Additionally, if you really were to recommend removing it, as you and the parent poster both seem to claim, then what would be a good replacement. (besides KDM or XDM)
Now, I'm bracing myself for the on-rushing crowd of folks smacking me with a "whoosh"...
2^3 * 31 * 647
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Let me put it this way, Mr. Amer. The Googlebot series is the most reliable computer ever made. No Googlebot computer has ever made a mistake or distorted information. We are all, by any practical definition of the words, foolproof and incapable of error.
Well, I don't think there is any question about it. It can only be attributable to human error. This sort of thing has cropped up before and it has always been due to human error.
Google uses Genetic Algorithms in their search.. proof: http://xkcd.com/534/ On a side note, If I'm not mistaken, WTF Wouldn't the redirect links work.. Would that have anything at all to do with all sites being flagged? Not that I can think of..
Before I'd heard that it was happening to everyone I thought that there was something wrong with my computer. Having a quick check showed I did indeed have a couple of Trojans lurking about.
Thanks google!
Yes It's a good thing.
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was for AdBlock Plus. You can imagine the conspiracy theories that floated through my head when I saw it labeled as malware.
You want the truthiness? You can't handle the truthiness!
This site is potentially harmful? Aiiieeee!
'Twas a great relief to realise some minutes later that it wasn't just me but the entire internet that was helpfully flagged as potentially harmful. Whew.
Eric Baird
Do we really forgot what the internet should be?
Why people love central control that much, or it is some evil hide deep under everyone's heart?
Fight central control if you got a brain.
Anyone notice Google news has been down for the last fifteen minutes?
502 server error....
Bad day for the big G.
I thought it was just my nethack patches search that was doing it...
insecurity asks the wrong question irritation gives the wrong answer
This is not the first time this has happened, though its the first time it happened on such a scale. A while back, some websites for at least a period of a day were flagged as "harmful to your computer", The one I recall was www.supermicro.com, a manufacturer of servers. It was real fun explaining to my client that "no, thats just a glitch. I am not trying to sell you Malware."
Funny though, I can still google for "Screensavers" and find red flagged sites that google seems to ignore.