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Post details: Google Malware Warning

12/13/06

Permalink 01:40:44 am, by Jamie Email , 307 words, 413 views  
Categories: Web Development, General Thoughts

Google Malware Warning

This is an interesting thing I ran into this evening. I was using a link to Google words to a song and came up with a link to a site that said it had the lyrics. When I clicked on the page I got this from Google.

" Warning - visiting this web site may harm your computer!
You can learn more about harmful web content and how to protect your computer at StopBadware.org.

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.lyricsandsongs.com/lyrics/RAY_LAMONTAGNE.html at your own risk.

Advisory provided by Google"

See here for the actual page
http://www.google.com/interstitial?url=http://www.lyricsandsongs.com/lyrics/RAY_LAMONTAGNE.html

The question is how did they end up on the malware list? How do get off of the list if you end up on it and don't belong there?

For example in my last job our papers sent out e-mail newsletters to people who had asked to get them. Often the papers would complain that users were not getting the newsletters. Sometimes it had to do with our newsletters ending up on the spam list of AOL, Yahoo or one of the other major e-mail providers. So then we had to jump through the hoops to get off of the list. This happened every month or so and then we would have to fight to get off the list again.

I wonder if this will happen with this new malware advisory. I guess we shall see.

As a side note they do ban you from messing with the url parameter and making it look like a clean site is a malware site. I am sure they saw people seeing this is an easy hack.

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