This Site May Harm Your Computer

Malicious software or human error

I've read about this from other articles. And Google has already acknowledge their mistakes in this surprising event. They said that a human error was involved in this event.

This Google May Harm Your Computer

That was a strange hour! It was oddly amusing, but it sure points a finger at how much we rely on Google on a daily basis. There's a great screenshot at this article where Google flags its own site as harmful.

if you think that's worth writing about, how about this

Wrongly labeling all legitimate sites in the world as dangerous to user computers is penny-ante stuff.

Another error that Google has sat on was a snaffu in Google Analytics (GA) that corrupted all data for any sites using segments.

GA started reporting laughable figures like 0.04 pages per visit (yes, not a typo... and when Google Support got a ticket they were AFRONTED we could doubt that GA is always right) meaning people visited and saw less than one page per visit.

It is alleged that GA fixed this with a change to _setVar as of Jan 27, but considering they compleltely messed up average bounce rates, time on page, visits, and basically everything until now, you be the judge.

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Dear Google Analytics User,
As an Administrative user on an account that is currently using custom visitor segments in Google Analytics, we would like to inform you of some changes to the _setVar method and its impact on bounce rate and time on page metrics. Starting Wednesday, January 27, 2009 a call to the _setVar method will no longer be counted as an interaction hit with the result that you may see higher bounce rates and more accurate time on page metrics in your reports.
What is the change?
Google Analytics calculates bounces and durations based upon interaction hits. Previously, user-defined calls have been classified as an interaction. With this change, _setVar will no longer be considered an interaction hit. Interaction hits will now only include pageviews, events, transactions and experiments (such as with Google Website Optimizer).
Why will bounce rates go up?
Single-page visits that had previously been hidden due to the _ setVar call will now appear. For example, let's say that you've used the _setVar method to segment member vs. non-member site visitors. Previously, if a visitor came to your site and triggered the _setVar call, but viewed only one page, this would not be counted as a bounce. With this change the user defined call will not send an interaction hit and overall bounce rates will increase as this single page visit will properly be counted as a bounce.
What is the impact on the time on page metric?
Time on page metrics are normally counted by the difference in time stamps which are set by interaction hits. Prior to this change, using _setVar would cause Google Analytics to calculate the time on page metric between the time of the pageview hit and the interaction hit of the user defined variable. Now, as user-defined hits are no longer counted as an interaction hit, time on page metrics should more accurately reflect the time between one pageview and the next.
We've made these changes based on comments from our users and have listened to your feedback to not have bounce rates be affected by custom visitor segments. We work constantly to improve Google Analytics to meet our customer needs and to provide the most powerful and accurate web analytics possible.
Sincerely,
The Google Analytics Team

I was virus cleaning

I was getting these too...thought the virus I was cleaning from another computer on my network spread to this computer. I went to every computer on my network and thought they were ALL infected. It was only doing it on certain searches though. I tried "spyhunter", "AVG", and of course "this site may harm"...all gave the same result. However, I searched the first random word in my head "texas" and it didn't give the "this site may harm..." links. I tried "AVG" again and they were back.

It looks like it's better now.

More Screen shots

I got several screen shots as well. This issue was reported first in India and then in the USA.

http://blog.visualstudioteamsystem.com/post.aspx?item=20

Google Search

We just had the same problem about 10 minutes ago and now it seems to be all OK. Very strange but it just shows the dangers of letting censorship take hold.

Thought it was just me

I too noticed this and tried everything, reboot PC, scan with virus scanner, reboot router. I even tried Safari - how weird is that?

We can't live without Google it would seem!

Google safe browsing

Seems like its finally fixed. they had made the redirect URL un-available:
Google makes some quick changes to the safe browsing glitch

If you're running Google

If you're running Google Toolbar or Google Desktop with Google Safe Browsing enabled, that might be part of the problem. Try disabling the Google Safe Browsing option.

all your GOOGLE are belong

all your GOOGLE are belong to us