Google broken by Malware warnings
Uh oh… the backbone of the Internet appears to have just snapped in half…
Every single search on google.co.uk from my many machines comes up with a malware warning (“This site may harm your computer”) and effectively blocks your activity, unless you take the link to the warning out of the address URL. There is obviously an issue at the Google end, all searches on Google.com and Google.fr are showing the same error.
Click on the link and you get this:
Is this just me, or is everyone getting this? You probably won’t get this posting by searching for it, so I wonder why I am noting this down.
UPDATE: 15:04 GMT – Henry (probably in London, rather than Bath) has reported the same problem, so it’s not just me, or my choice of dodgy websites (BBC iplayer ‘might harm your computer’ – presumably if you watch Eastenders on it). Watching and waiting for a resolution.
No search on Yahoo (oh, the irony) yet shows any posting from Google on the matter, and nothing yet from Royal Pingdom, the usual gurus of website brokenness
UPDATE: 15:19 GMT – It would appear (from the comments below) that the world has this problem. If you have arrived on this small Church blog looking for the solution, then WELCOME. The immediate solution is to :
a) cut and paste the listed URL from the warning page into the address and effectively go direct to the page
b) edit the address, taking out
http://www.google.com/interstitial?url=
(not you might need to change the html converted codes to make the URL work)
c) Use Yahoo (if you havn’t used it for some time)
UPDATE 15:25 GMT – FIXED!!! Oh Praise the Lord!!!! Back to normal. Now, will they admit to anything or just pretend that never happened? Now I can get back on with my sermon preparation for Candlemas on Monday. Thank you for stopping by, this has been an exhilarating half-hour. God bless you.
Fr. S
I’m in the US and I’m having the exactly same problem.
Same problem with Google.cz, so it’s definitely broken down.
The same thing in Germany with google.de!
Having the same problem here, and Im pretty sure it was working earlier (around 12pm GMT). And its not just on my PC as well (which has seen some very dodgy sites in its time.) My iPhone is having exactly the same problem.
I’m in the Romania and i m having the exactly same problem.:(
yup everything has broken
Yup, same thing in US. Every site seems to be blacklisted
Over to Yahoo then for everybody, I reckon then!
US also…same here. been searching for the last 10 minutes or so trying to find out if I was the only one out there
it must be a problem at google’s end.
hopefully it will be fixed soon.
ha, oddly it seems to be fixed now…??
I’m in the US. Experiencing failure on my PC (Firefox) and on my Mac (Flock/Safari/Firefox). Safari on my iPhone seems to work.
There’s Yahoo, of course, but I don’t *like* using Yahoo. Snif.
I love the Internet! Seriously–I was having the same problem on my Mac and thought my Google settings were screwed up. Then I searched Google to find this link and voila! Now I know it’s the entire planet not just me. OK, onward to Yahoo until Google straightens this out.
PS weirdly when I searched the word “news” I did not get the malware message.
I had the same problem on 1 PC with both IE7 and Firefox, but noticed that another PC was fine. I rebooted the problematic PC and everything is back to normal.
Now it says “Forbidden” !!!
I don’t like Yahoo either, but at present, at least it is working…
Looks like they’ve currently fixed it by turning off safe browsing.
Same here in UK in last half hour or so it’s appeared 100% and now Google is totally unusable as it flags every single site on any search subject. The warning page also has no link to continue so to use it, yes you have to copy and paste the URL you wanted into the address bar. Takes forever.
Google has really broken itself this time.
The issue has been resolved by Google.
I guess Google fixed itself while I was rebooting. Odd thing is that 1 PC worked fine and the other PC didn’t. They are hooked up to the same router and using the same cable modem connection.
http://blog.lbi-netrank.co.uk/google-malware-filter-broken/
It does not appear to be mended, merely disabled.
i really liked seeing google saying that it’s own site is harmfull. long life to da screenshots