Comments for Every Google Result Is Malicious

Every Google Result Is Malicious

2009-01-31T20:11:42Z

Either Google has a bug or the entire internet is infected because no matter what you search for in Google right now it shows up with the warning, "This site may harm your computer." Judging by the submissions to Digg, this probably started showing up around 9:46 eastern this morning. Nobody knows what's going on yet, just that it's very odd. UPDATE: And of 10:17 eastern, everything seems back to normal. You may recommence your early morning vanity searching. UPDATE: Human error. Someone typed in "/" by mistake. More info at StopBadware.com.

Comment from layton59 on 2009-02-03

2009-02-03T08:03:21Z

@Barclay Hygaard: I never experienced this glitch. However, GOOGLE forced their latest new version down my and my computer's throat. GOOGLE never even asked if I wanted the new version. It really messed up my GOOGLE toolbar settings and icons. I finally removed the entire GOOGLE program and then downloaded the old version from GOOGLE. So far they have not forced the new version on me again. Time will tell. One guy said they "updated" him 4 times without permission. If GOOGLE wants to take over my computer, then they need to pay me it.

Comment from Bearded Rapper on 2009-02-02

2009-02-02T07:27:32Z

@Coksibum: You're obviously an overachiver.

Comment from Bearded Rapper on 2009-02-01

2009-02-01T08:13:53Z

@special4k4: 360 seconds... who cares?

Comment from amsd2dth on 2009-02-01

2009-02-01T08:07:30Z

When sites like government-based ones, etc., started giving that warning, I figured it had to be a bug and just gave up. Glad it's fixed now.

Comment from ninjatoddler on 2009-01-31

2009-02-01T03:38:45Z

@ceez: Haven't you seen Die Hard (the last one). It's a firesale!

First they take down the economy. Then they put the Cards and Steelers in the finals. Finally, they hijack the all-seeing entity known as Google.

OH NOES!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Comment from ninjatoddler on 2009-01-31

2009-02-01T03:35:58Z

I think Google has a question for you - "What were you guys doing up so early on Saturday morning? You were supposed to be catching up on sleep after a late Friday night full of booze!"

Comment from Maurs on 2009-01-31

2009-02-01T02:39:17Z

I got a paypal shipping email this morning between those hours that Gmail flagged as "possibly not from who it says it is" i.e. phishing. It's not though, so maybe the same problem.

Comment from Anonymous on 2009-01-31

2009-02-01T02:26:57Z

Wait, is anyone else besides me STILL having this problem?

I'm having the same issue described here, and have been since yesterday. Only it's not just Google, it's Yahoo search as well. On multiple web browsers.

Help!

Comment from Barbara Merry on 2009-01-31

2009-02-01T01:40:27Z

like everyone else i noticed this too and figured google would figure it out pretty quickly. how long did it take them? who did this? some disgrunted google employee? malicious hacker poking fun at the national/international obsession with googling as a fun time activity?

Comment from chatterboxwriting on 2009-01-31

2009-02-01T00:46:48Z

I did a search on "Hawaii vacations" around then and the top ten results got that message about possibly being harmful. Now it seems to be back to normal.

Comment from mythago on 2009-01-31

2009-02-01T00:20:59Z

@zenpoet: SOMEbody is going to be spending a very cold night on the couch this year on Steak and Blowjobs Day.

Comment from meske on 2009-01-31

2009-02-01T00:11:03Z

@Coksibum: I switched to yahoo. In 30 seconds.

Comment from Coksibum on 2009-01-31

2009-02-01T00:05:51Z

@Mr_Human: back @ Mr_Human: Just to verify it wasn't a router issue from an internal network standpoint. I originally found this on my powerbook, so i tried my macbook. I was trying to figure out if it was a browser issue (FF, Safari, or IE) and i wanted to verify it wasn't a virus my wife got on one of the computers.

Just call me thorough. :-)

Comment from Joe S Chmo on 2009-01-31

2009-01-31T23:53:40Z

@Coksibum: Yes, why? yahoo was working fine. It was only Google. I briefly thought it was my computer but then I remembered I was using my Mac and not my HP so I knew it was them. I confirmed this by performing the same search in Yahoo.

Comment from thedreamingtree on 2009-01-31

2009-01-31T23:25:48Z

I was getting Katherine Albrect's newsletter (the privacy author/activist who is anti-spychip consumer card) and she recommended ixquick.com as a private search engine that doesn't gather info on people, so that's an option. Scroogle.org is another one.

Comment from special4k4 on 2009-01-31

2009-01-31T23:16:22Z

@Addicted To Chocohol: Sorry to burst your bubble, but James Aylett beat you by 6 minutes: [twitter.com] :-p

Comment from Anonymous on 2009-01-31

2009-01-31T22:48:59Z

Use Yahoo for your searches. You'll usually get the site you are looking for --- or a more reliable site if you don't know of a specific site to look for --- higher on the results on Yahoo than on Google.

Comment from Andrew Crocker on 2009-01-31

2009-01-31T21:48:16Z

@Coksibum: hah. posted one minute before it got better.

Comment from TBM-Fan on 2009-01-31

2009-01-31T21:43:02Z

Luckily i won't use google that much anymore :D

Comment from cordeliapotter on 2009-01-31

2009-01-31T21:42:52Z

@SweetBearCub:

Comment from tatublu on 2009-01-31

2009-01-31T21:39:57Z

yeah i was experiancing this too this morningi thought it was a glitch, bad google bad

Comment from Joanne Michele Stocker on 2009-01-31

2009-01-31T21:37:18Z

And here I thought it was because I was using someone else's wifi to get around my work firewall.

Comment from ojzitro on 2009-01-31

2009-01-31T21:32:14Z

@Shadowfire:
HAHAHAHA....good call.

Comment from shortwave8669 on 2009-01-31

2009-01-31T21:25:02Z

seems to be fixed now

Comment from LightningSt on 2009-01-31

2009-01-31T21:21:19Z

Wow, I thought it was just me

Comment from MsAnthropy on 2009-01-31

2009-01-31T21:16:08Z

This was pissing me off this morning because on some sites Google wouldn't even allow me to ignore their "helpful" warning and copy/paste the url into my browser - instead of the "warning! This site is bad and nasty, visit at your own peril!" page, I was getting a message telling me I was denied access to the site altogether. Only a minor inconvenience, as I could just type in the url myself, but still...

When I was checking to see if Google thought EVERY site was malicious, the only search result that didn't come up with that warning was for the IRS website. Hah!

Comment from johnfrombrooklyn on 2009-01-31

2009-01-31T21:11:09Z

It couldn't be Google's fault. After all they "do no evil"

Comment from Shadowfire on 2009-01-31

2009-01-31T21:05:46Z

@ojzitro: Why? Because it finally told us the truth?
[/sarcasm]

Comment from forgottenpassword on 2009-01-31

2009-01-31T20:56:15Z

Bajillions across the net all freaked out together & ran to various sites to ask WTF was going on. I went to reddit to post ask.

Comment from SweetBearCub on 2009-01-31

2009-01-31T20:51:56Z

@Yamil Nakhleh: Don't do that! You might rip a hole in the fabric of space time by googling Google!

Err, or something like that...

;-)

Comment from jellybean08 on 2009-01-31

2009-01-31T20:49:04Z

I'm just glad it was google and not another bloody virus on my bloody pc.now i can stop panicking and stop chill with the scanners :)

Comment from Mr_Human on 2009-01-31

2009-01-31T20:48:39Z

@Coksibum: Why?

Comment from Yamil Nakhleh on 2009-01-31

2009-01-31T20:46:05Z

I Google "google" and they had malicious content...

Comment from Bearded Rapper on 2009-01-31

2009-01-31T20:43:40Z

@Julian Jares: No, it happened to me with Google Hong Kong.

Comment from ojzitro on 2009-01-31

2009-01-31T20:42:37Z

I wandered over to whitehouse.gov to see if that malicious also, it was, so I figured Google had some bugs.

Comment from Julian Jares on 2009-01-31

2009-01-31T20:40:11Z

Only happened with google.com though, I checked with a couple of friends who have they're country specific googles (google.com.ar, etc) and they didn't seem to be affected.

Comment from Bearded Rapper on 2009-01-31

2009-01-31T20:39:07Z

Holy crap... I was one of the first to post this at 9:36!

[techlife.scriptful.com]

[digg.com]

OK, I'll stop whoring now.

Comment from RodAox on 2009-01-31

2009-01-31T20:36:04Z

yeah... I removed a couple things from my searches before realizing google was messing up.... now I have absolutely no idea how to get those things back....

Comment from zenpoet on 2009-01-31

2009-01-31T20:35:56Z

I am not goint to lie, I started stomping around the house looking for my wife this morning to see what kind of crap she had infected my computers with. I was happy to see it was a mistake.

I knew it couldn't have been my pr0n sites, because I trust those guys.

Comment from xb3ngx on 2009-01-31

2009-01-31T20:34:43Z

and here i thought it was funny when the cal trans gov site had the warning. thanks for ruining the fun!

Comment from Blueskylaw on 2009-01-31

2009-01-31T20:34:07Z

Big brother only letting us to see what he wants us
to see by implied threat of computer harm?

Comment from ceez on 2009-01-31

2009-01-31T20:34:04Z

i noticed that too...I was like "what the crap! is there a new worm that's infected every system in the web?!?!" I was about to panic thinking about the servers at work.

It all boils down to the economy I tell you...the economy!

Comment from Azndude51 on 2009-01-31

2009-01-31T20:32:53Z

Thanks for reporting on this. I thought I was hallucinating for a second since I the problem came up then a few seconds I searched again and it was gone.

Comment from eternaluxe on 2009-01-31

2009-01-31T20:25:41Z

@Barclay Hygaard: Often reviled, rarely revealed.

Comment from strider_mt2k on 2009-01-31

2009-01-31T20:24:30Z

Also: Everybody poops.

Comment from Joey Joe Joe Junior Shabadoo on 2009-01-31

2009-01-31T20:23:33Z

Oh it was a problem with google. I thought it was googlepreview, my favorite FF extension.

Comment from MacGyver on 2009-01-31

2009-01-31T20:17:45Z

It appears to be fixed now. Crisis averted, move along, nothing to see here...

Comment from Coksibum on 2009-01-31

2009-01-31T20:16:57Z

I tried on 4 different computers with 4 different operating systems, and 3 different browsers... all came to the same result. I've spent the last 45 minutes messing with this issue.

Comment from Barclay Hygaard on 2009-01-31

2009-01-31T20:13:43Z

And here I thought the true nature of the internet had been reviled.

But seriously, I thought it was just me, good to know it's happening to everyone.