Saturday, January 31, 2009

This site may harm your computer, part 2

I should try it from some other computer. Maybe only my home PC has some kind of weird virus that tries to be too overprotective or something. I haven't talked to anybody else who's using google today.

The result is this: when you click on any of the pages, it sends you to an 'interstitial' page. It gives you the warning and a couple of links. None of the links work. So for all practical purposes, you're totally unable to get to them. The way to do it is to copy and paste the URL in your browser, then remove the part of it at the beginning that says http://www.google.com/interstitial?url= .

That just seems too weird to be the real google. It has to be some virus on my computer. I'll see if it's on other computers too.

Then again, maybe this is the new Homeland Security giving us our Chinese-Style Internet Censorship.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/01/google_says_every_site_is_now_malwa.html