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Old 01-31-2009
Google Error: This site may harm your computer.
Anyone else seeing this error on every search result on Google today:

Code:
This site may harm your computer.

Which links to this page:

Malware Warning

Which says:

Quote:
Warning - visiting this web site may harm your computer!

Suggestions:
Return to the previous page and pick another result.
Try another search to find what you're looking for.
Or you can continue to Unix - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia at your own risk. For detailed information about the problems we found, visit Google's Safe Browsing diagnostic page for this site.

For more information about how to protect yourself from harmful software online, you can visit StopBadware.org.

If you are the owner of this web site, you can request a review of your site using Google's Webmaster Tools. More information about the review process is available in Google's Webmaster Help Center.
# 2  
Old 01-31-2009
confirming, it appears for every site for me.
# 3  
Old 01-31-2009
Same here.
# 4  
Old 01-31-2009
Hard to believe Google could make such an error.

For the historic record, please post screenshots of the search page and the Google malware warning page.

Thanks.
# 5  
Old 01-31-2009
Seems the Google error is clearing now.

Attached is a screenshot, for the record.
Google Error: This site may harm your computer.-google_malware_errorjpg
# 6  
Old 01-31-2009
Seems Google is fixing the error. They have blocked access to the old warning link as well:

Quote:
Google Error
Forbidden

Your client does not have permission to get URL /interstitial?url=http://www.thecepblog.com/2009/01/27/predicting-events-with-logisitic-regression/ from this server. (Client IP address: 203.146.158.5)
I should have taken more screenshots when I first saw the error Smilie
Google Error: This site may harm your computer.-google_forbidden_errorjpg
# 7  
Old 01-31-2009
A link discussing the issue: Google taking security a little too seriously? | Speeds and feeds - CNET News
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