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		<title>What&#8217;s Up with &#8220;this site may harm your computer&#8221;?</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Is Google messed up? Every website result I see has a link above it that says &#8220;This site may harm your computer&#8221;. It will not let you go to the page. Another option is to see &#8220;detailed informatin about the problems we found&#8221; &#8211; but when I click on that it says the server is [&#8230;]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Is Google messed up? Every website result I see has a link above it that says &#8220;This site may harm your computer&#8221;. It will not let you go to the page. Another option is to see &#8220;detailed informatin about the problems we found&#8221; &#8211; but when I click on that it says the server is busy and to try again in 30 seconds (which hasn&#8217;t worked so far).</p>
<p>EVERY page I see has this warning &#8211; including www.Google.com and Wikipedia.</p>
<p>Anyone know what&#8217;s going on with Google?</p>
<p><strong>UPDATE</strong>: <em>Yes, it was real. Answer follows:</em></p>
<p><span id="more-3868"></span><a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28950149/" target="_blank">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28950149/</a></p>
<p><span class="postbody"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Google users get bogus warning on site searches </span><br />
&#8216;This site may harm your computer&#8217; appeared with every search result<br />
The Associated Press<br />
updated 2:54 p.m. ET, Sat., Jan. 31, 2009<br />
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. &#8211; Computer users doing Google searches during a nearly one-hour period Saturday were greeted with disturbing but erroneous messages that every site turned up in the results might be harmful.</p>
<p>The company blamed the mistake on human error and apologized for any inconvenience caused to users and site owners whose pages were incorrectly labeled.</p>
<p>The glitch occurred between 9:30 a.m. and 10:25 a.m. ET, Google said in an explanation on its company blog. Anyone who did a Google search during that time likely saw the message &#8220;This site may harm your computer&#8221; accompanying every search result, the company said.</p>
<p>Google said it routinely flags any search results with that message if the site is known to install malicious software in the background or otherwise surreptitiously, a practice aimed at protecting its users. It gets its list of suspicious sites from StopBadware.org, a nonprofit project headed by legal scholars at Harvard and Oxford universities who research consumer complaints.</p>
<p>Saturday&#8217;s error happened when the latest update to the list was received from StopBadware but was checked in erroneously in such a way that the warning would apply to all URLs, the company said in a statement.</p>
<p>The glitch was caught by on-call staff and the file was quickly fixed, Google said. Since the updates are applied in a staggered and rolling fashion, the errors began appearing at 9:27 a.m. EST and disappeared no later than 10:25 a.m. EST, with the duration for any particular user approximately 40 minutes, it said.</p>
<p>&#8220;We will carefully investigate this incident and put more robust file checks in to prevent it from happening again,&#8221; said Marissa Mayer, vice president of search products and user experience, in the statement. </span></p>
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