All Google Search Results: "This site may harm your computer."

Sat Jan 31 18:23:25 UTC 2009

Sounds like a whitelist of URLs to check against the blacklist would be
appropriate here.

I know that content-filtering company 8e6 had a problem over 2 years ago
with some good well-known sites.  Somewhere around that time they hardcoded
categories for the top 500 sites, so that if something slipped through the
cracks again, the impact would be smaller.

Frank

-----Original Message-----
From: Damian Menscher [mailto:damian at google.com] 
Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2009 11:32 AM
To: Peter Beckman
Cc: nanog at nanog.org
Subject: Re: All Google Search Results: "This site may harm your computer."

FYI, the official explanation has been posted:

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/this-site-may-harm-your-computer-on.h
tml

Damian

On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 6:50 AM, Peter Beckman <beckman at angryox.com> wrote:
> This morning whilest Googling, I got a bunch of "Permission Denied" to
> "/interstitial?..." URLs on Google.
>
> Then all my search results got listed as "This site may harm your
> computer."
>
> Is Google broken, or is the functionality of listing sites as broken,
> broken?
>
> http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/423476/google-broken.gif
>
> Beckman
>
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