April 5, 2008 7:31pm
While cruising the intarweb's verdant tubes recently, Google warned me that a site might install malware onto my computer, and helpfully provided a link to assist me in learning about evil web sites.
Maybe I've been living under a rock—quiet you at the back—but I haven't seen this warning before. I was too lazy to investigate, but if this is a false positive, I wonder how this blogger feels about being tarred with this brush by Mr Google.
[Update: Well, here's how someone felt about being marked as malware, and about Mr Google's response.]
April 6th, 2008 at 3:13am
This is very common and it happens a lot. I never found any of those 'harmful' sites to be actually harmful. So much for google's state of the art site rating and spam detection :)
April 20th, 2008 at 10:44pm
When google dropped one of my sites to a pr0 I had to do the same thing as the party you linked to in this post. Google's response was the same - they gave themselves several weeks to reconsider their decision. Fortunately, it only took a couple of days. I'm not a fan of google, but I'd rather see them underpromise and overdeliver than vice versa.