# Google warning:  This site may harm your computer?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-warning-this-site-may-harm-your-computer/483865>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [January 31, 2009, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-warning-this-site-may-harm-your-computer/483865 "2009-01-31T14:55:55Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2009, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-warning-this-site-may-harm-your-computer/483865/21 "2009-01-31T17:02:07Z")

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Thank god, I was image searching this morning and kept getting that too, and I’m just now finished with 4 different virus scans. I thought for sure that I’d gotten a Net-T-D.

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**Author:** ![Fubaya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@Fubaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fubaya)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2009, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-warning-this-site-may-harm-your-computer/483865/22 "2009-01-31T17:18:51Z")

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This is a Google [feature](http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=45449) that they’ve had for a [while](http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000859.html). Someone just screwed something up for a little while.

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**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2009, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-warning-this-site-may-harm-your-computer/483865/23 "2009-01-31T21:23:44Z")

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This just proves even Google can make a boo-boo.

It was a [“system error.”](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/google/4413065/Millions-hit-by-Google-breakdown.html)

[More info.](http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gtVmZv0pkBvVP62cYD8ulG7vCFGwD9629DAO0)

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**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2009, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-warning-this-site-may-harm-your-computer/483865/24 "2009-01-31T22:02:23Z")

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Anyone else here old enough to remember ARMM: ARMM: ARMM: ARMM?

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**Author:** ![ivan\_astikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2009, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-warning-this-site-may-harm-your-computer/483865/25 "2009-01-31T22:08:29Z")

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Would Google tell us the truth about it if things weren’t as stated in the link above? Isn’t this like those banks who don’t admit they have had security problems, for fear of damage to public confidence?

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