[Owasp-nynjmetro] Owasp-nynjmetro, problems with google today

[David Goldsmith]

yah, google explains what happened here:

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/this-site-may-harm-your-computer-on.html

Basically, the URL '/' got added to their list of known bad sites,  
which ended up matching every website.

Dave G.
President
Matasano Security LLC


On Jan 31, 2009, at 2:15 PM, John Kurzman wrote:

> Google was definitely sick, I even added 'site:www.google.com' to a  
> search,
> and it said that the pages on www.google.com were unsafe as well.   
> So either
> a monster infection out there, or its detection mechanism was  
> broken. Seems
> like its recovered now.
>
> John Kurzman, CISSP
> 103 Yacht Club Drive
> Lake Hopatcong, NJ 07849
> Phone: 973-663-4929
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/JohnKurzman
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> Anyone noticing problems with Google systems early today?
> When you get search hits, you are also presented with the message  
> "This site
> may harm your
> computer.<http://www.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=45449&topic=360
> &hl=en&sa=X&oi=malwarewarninglink&resnum=1&ct=help>"
> and cannot proceed to the site afterwards.   Fishy...
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> From: "Dan Cornell" <dan at denimgroup.com>
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> Yeah I saw that when I tried to follow some Google search results to
> MSDN.
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> Thanks,
>
>
>
> Dan
>
>
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> Anyone noticing problems with Google systems early today?
> When you get search hits, you are also presented with the message  
> "This
> site may harm your computer.
> <http://www.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=45449&topic=360&hl=e
> n&sa=X&oi=malwarewarninglink&resnum=1&ct=help> " and cannot proceed to
> the site afterwards.   Fishy...
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