Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submitlogin
Google flags all internet as malware (techcrunch.com)
6 points by vaksel on Jan 31, 2009 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



So it looks like google fixed it pretty quickly. They are saying it is human error right now. What they are saying happened is that they were updating a list of malware websites. Some how the there was a typo made and the servers were told to include every website as malware. It was shortly fixed, and it only lasted about 40 minutes.

Contrary to early reports, google did not get their malware data from stopbadware.org, google just works with the site to create the criteria for the list. Also, legitimately bad sites still have warnings. Link:http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/this-site-may-harm-yo... Link:http://blog.stopbadware.org/2009/01/31/google-glitch-causes-...




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: