Google Search Hiccup: Whole Internet is Malware

[Guest]

Early morning on January 31, 2009 Google's Malware detection malfunctioned and listed every search result through google.com as harmful to your computer.

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[Guest]

weird how "\" shuts down the biggest engine in the world.... makes you wonder .... no?

 

[LightWeightX]

I found this out first hand when Google flagged every link as harmful and AVG was showing a green check mark. I simply went to Yahoo and got normal results.

 

[tonitelaoag]

i glad i am not a tech savvy just a plain user who don't mind delays because i am used to surfing with a slow internet connection on my part, thanks for the news

 

[spanner_razor]

Yeah I saw this too, I just typed in the addresses manually instead. Big whoop, wanna fight about it?

 

[zak_mckraken]

[citation][nom]sandmanzero[/nom]weird how "\" shuts down the biggest engine in the world.... makes you wonder .... no?[/citation]

Not really. If you enter '/' in your filter, it will block every URL containing '/' (all of them). Their filter was apparently updated by a human being and that human being made a mistake. These things happen. That's why they put erasers on pencils. And "shuts down" is not very accurate. "Behaving strangely" would be more appropriate.

 

[StupidRabbit]

heh that was funny.. i searched for "This site may harm your computer" and took a screenshot. but its not as good as taking a screenshot wiki-vandalism before its corrected, like the one i took of police codes. 10-420 was "Officer smoking seized marijuana" and 10-31337 was "Juvenile Computer Hacker" and so on 😀

 

[Guest]

how about a class-action lawsuit for billions of dollars?