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This Site May Harm Your Computer is displaying for every single site on the internet in Google's search results effectively cutting off the internet.

About 30 minutes ago i noticed the Malware warning for my site, i knew there was no Malware because i had only just been fixing some templates.

Even Google displays This Site May Harm Your Computer for their own domain:



So it appears heads are going to roll, because this has effectively shut down the internet.

[bobwilson37]

Is it really happening??Google is a very trusted service in the globe, i don't think so..Please check once again, thanks for writing..

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Originally Posted by bobwilson37

Is it really happening??Google is a very trusted service in the globe, i don't think so..Please check once again, thanks for writing..

They sure did, they flagged every single site on the internet as Malware and blocked access to even their own domain from the SERP's. No need to check again, i didn't post this without checking the problem from multiple PC's and IP addresses first to ensure it was real.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/...mputer-on.html

Press Release from Marissa Mayer after i made this thread:

If you did a Google search between 6:30 a.m. PST and 7:25 a.m. PST this morning, you likely saw that the message "This site may harm your computer" accompanied each and every search result. This was clearly an error, and we are very sorry for the inconvenience caused to our users.

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 maintain a list of such sites through both manual and automated methods. We work with a non-profit called StopBadware.org to come up with criteria for maintaining this list, and to provide simple processes for webmasters to remove their site from the list.

We periodically update that list and released one such update to 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.

Thanks to our team for their quick work in finding this. And again, our apologies to any of you who were inconvenienced this morning, and to site owners whose pages were incorrectly labelled. We will carefully investigate this incident and put more robust file checks in place to prevent it from happening again.

Thanks for your understanding.

Update at 10:29 am PST: This post was revised as more precise information became available (changes are in blue). Here's StopBadware's explanation.

Posted by Marissa Mayer, VP, Search Products & User Experience

[bobwilson37]

Then it's okay..Actually i got you but a small bit of doubt was there in my mind, so it's clarified by your blog..Thank You

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