Comments on: Google goes bonkers, FALSELY says NYT, WashPo, TeleRead harbor malware

By: Paul Biba

Paul Biba — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 19:56:26 +0000

Here’s the reason why this happened:

Someone at Google is having a very bad start to their weekend. Google

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 18:56:01 +0000

I had it earlier today as well when trying to get to a specific Nokia site.

By: Paul Biba

Paul Biba — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 17:51:13 +0000

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/31/google_malware_snafu/

By: Mike Perry

Mike Perry — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 16:47:43 +0000

Google does seem to have a problem in this area. The same thing happened to me about a month ago and, if my memory is correct, the site was Apple.com.

Look around online (i.e. Google the right terms) and you’ll find a possible explanation. It has to do with the shortcuts they take to speed up processing. Sometimes those shortcuts lead to a false positive for malware.

By: Søren, Denmark

Søren, Denmark — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 15:53:50 +0000

That’s right, we had it in Europe too, oops!
My 10 year-old nephew called me: “What’s wrong with my iMac?”