[LINK] Google site warning on News.com.au

[Rick Welykochy]

Richard Chirgwin wrote:

> ...and there on the first page of results was a News.com.au link:
> <http://www.google.com.au/interstitial?url=http://ink.news.com.au/mercury/mathguys/articles/1999/990224a3.htm>
> 
> ...with Google's "this site may harm your computer" warning... using the
> target URL brings up just the News.com.au link with the warning.

Here is why: other sites accessed by News.Com are nasties:

http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=http://ink.news.com.au/mercury/mathguys/articles/1999/990224a3.htm&hl=en

*OR*

http://tinyurl.com/6jpbd9


   "[The] Malicious software includes 33 scripting exploit(s),
    4 exploit(s). Successful infection resulted in an average
    of 3 new processes on the target machine."


This is simply not acceptable behaviour for a major news portal. Isn't it.


cheers
rickw



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