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

[Fernando Cassia]

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 6:42 PM, Rick Welykochy <rick at praxis.com.au> wrote:

> 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.


There seems to be a problem with Google's reporting feature where anybody
can flag a given URL as malware-providing

See here
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=%22may+harm+your+computer%22+site%3Atheinquirer.net&btnG=Search

It branded PalmOS.com and a JavaFX blog as "harmful" before. The affected
sites were clueless of how to get rid of that flag.

I guess it can badly harm any legit site if enough people submit reports
against it...

Just my $0.02
FC