Comments on: Google warns entire Internet is malware

For about an hour Saturday morning, Google listed every site on the Internet as potentially harmful to your computer. At first, Google blamed the problem on StopBadware.org but later had to eat crow.

haha, I thought it was just me...thats funny

[Hairbawl87]

I thought the same LOL I was asking myself "Am I doing something wrong?"

[MSSlayer]

Why would you think that? Seems odd to think you are entering queries "wrong'.

[Dylan_Wisor]

Well it's true.

[ckurowic]

Seconded.

[afterhours]

ditto --- the web is crap.

[SleepyInKC]

I'm harming your computer right now.

[chuchucuhi]

I thought it was because I had just installed IE8 RC1 and then I tried it in Chrome and FF3...that's when I thought something was up but I hadn't had my morning cup of coffee yet so any sort of reasonable thinking was shot.

[crustycracker]

Youtube URLs were not flagged.

[Spanwite]

Images search, and with click on the image, same message until Afternoon!

[rapier1]

These sort of problems are what concern me the most about cloud computing. Its whole other set of failure points add to the chain.

[cuwickliffe]

It just happened that I had installed the latest Chrome beta on my netbook and figured something was awry with that. I guess it wasn't just me. What a fiasco though. People like getting all in a tissy even on the weekends ...

[askermana271275]

Darn it I miss all the fun on the web.

[firefoxluva95]

Well you could argue that just by connecting online, you are exposing your computer to the possibility of getting infected. That risk depends on the security and Operating System but there is no absolute 100% security. There may be 99.99% but not 100%. So in a sense, Google was sort of right. Perhaps they were just trying to make a point and there really wasn't an error. It's all a conspiracy I tell you ;).

[PhaseDMA]

Is this really news? Not really.

[flickrz]

huh....And, it still doesn't show screensavers.com as the bad site that spits malware....

[billmosby]

That's funny, I could have sworn that it didn't flag my site as "dangerous". Guess I didn't look closely enough!

[winstein]

This is not funny at all. I thought my computer was compromised and that my wife was to blame. Now I have to cook for her for the entire week.

[Spanwite]

I assume she cooks for you the rest of the Year :-) Be a Man, you get through this.

[NavalHistory]

Hullo,

I experienced this glitch (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/google/4413065/Millions-hit-by-Google-breakdown.html), and I am very concerned that Google, which is so widely used by millions, report it is a temporary problem. Maybe this is their way of hiding it from the public.

I run www.naval-history.net (nearly 2 million visitors pa). Over the last few weeks I have had two such warnings trying to open my site and I know at least one other visitor has. Ten colleagues I contacted had received no warnings. Of the other 5,000 visitors daily, who can say.

When this first happened yesterday, I contacted the BBC Wales newsdesk thinking this was a major virus attack on Google, to be told my computer had a glitch. It obviously had not. I run Windows on a Mac, and both systems experienced it.

It suggests to me Google either has a potentially major software problem or is undergoing a serious attack.

Can I suggest you keep an eye on this.

Gordon Smith MBA, CEng
Naval-History.Net

[winstein]

This is not funny at all. I thought my computer was compromised and that my wife was to blame. Now I have to cook for her for the entire week.

[BathroomVanities]

I actually think that the entire Internet IS malware. If it wasn't, I wouldn't have to protect my children from it, would I?