MaskRider
02-01-2009, 01:40 AM
Did anyone around here besides me experience this weirdness?
It happened this morning- suddenly my Google searches started returning website listings where every single site listed was tagged with a "This Site May Be Harmful to Your Computer" warning. There was no way to connect via the listed link other than to cut and paste it directly into the browser address window.
I thought I had screwed something uip. As it happened I had just finished reactivating my Google ToolBar and making some tweaks to its settings. The very next Google search I did- the problem was there.
Weirdly enough, after changing my defqault search engine over to Yahoo and Yahooing on the problem I found a place that said disabling and then re-enabling JAVA script might solve the problem. I did this and danged if the next Google search I did didn't come out just fine.
However- I was within the window of when they Googled reports that they got the problem solved- so I'll never know if the JAVA script toggle actually had any effect or not. I suspect that it didn't.
Turns out that to the ealy morning update of Google's list of "bad" websites had been added "/". Since every website in the internet contains this sysmbol- well the rest as they is hiustory.
Anyhow I was just wonderin' if anyone else had been brought up short by this phenom.
Here is a link (http://googleblog.blogspot.com/)to Google's explanation for the prob:
Cheers,
Chris
It happened this morning- suddenly my Google searches started returning website listings where every single site listed was tagged with a "This Site May Be Harmful to Your Computer" warning. There was no way to connect via the listed link other than to cut and paste it directly into the browser address window.
I thought I had screwed something uip. As it happened I had just finished reactivating my Google ToolBar and making some tweaks to its settings. The very next Google search I did- the problem was there.
Weirdly enough, after changing my defqault search engine over to Yahoo and Yahooing on the problem I found a place that said disabling and then re-enabling JAVA script might solve the problem. I did this and danged if the next Google search I did didn't come out just fine.
However- I was within the window of when they Googled reports that they got the problem solved- so I'll never know if the JAVA script toggle actually had any effect or not. I suspect that it didn't.
Turns out that to the ealy morning update of Google's list of "bad" websites had been added "/". Since every website in the internet contains this sysmbol- well the rest as they is hiustory.
Anyhow I was just wonderin' if anyone else had been brought up short by this phenom.
Here is a link (http://googleblog.blogspot.com/)to Google's explanation for the prob:
Cheers,
Chris