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

[Paul Bolger]

I'm not arguing, but if you take a look at the site in question:

ink.news.com.au

It certainly doesn't look like anything an Australian media company
would produce - out of date content, misspellings, bad grammer.


2008/11/12 Fernando Cassia <fcassia at gmail.com>:
> 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
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