The Entire Web is Unsafe to Browse, Says Google
Software January 31st, 2009
Chances are you got scared away from visiting a webpage this morning by Google’s malware warning:
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 http://www.google.com/ 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.
Don’t worry, there’s nothing wrong with the site you are looking for. Google give false warnings on ANY site today, including their own. Here’s the Google search result for the keyword Google:
If you try to click on the diagnostic page, you get a Server Error. So go ahead, ignore the warnings – or perhaps limit your browsing to “known territories” until the error gets fixed.
(Cross-posted from CloudAve. To stay on top of Cloud Computing news, analysis and just our opinion, grab the CloudAve Feed here.)
Tags: Google, google error, malware, safe browsing, stopbadgeware
I’m Broadcasting Over the Comcast Cap – This Can’t Be Good
Software September 7th, 2008
Since Comcast is about to cap monthly traffic at 250G per month, I thought I would check my monthly stats. Little did I expect that I am already exceeding this limit… but what’s scary is that it’s outbound traffic, not inbound.
This can’t be good – I probably have some malware sitting on my machine. Neither McAfee nor Spybot S&D finds anything… if you have ideas, pls. comment below. Thanks in advance – I guess this is my first crowdsourced problem resolution. 
Update (9/21) Lots of good advice in the comments. I tried another pacakage, highly advised by several.. only to find a thread by the author, acknowledging it does not properly measure usage under Vista. Crap. I am not too worried though: my router shows way higher download traffic than upload, which is the “normal” user profile. It’s in packets though, not Gigs.  Why does it have to be my pain though? Comcast shoud not introduce the bandwidth cap without providing a measurement tool.
Tags: bandwidth, bot, broadband, comcast, leak, malware, mcafee, spybot, spyware, torrent, virus
Zoli Erdos
