Human error caused a glitch that returned the message “this site may harm your computer” for all Google search results for about an hour Saturday morning, the company said.
Jan
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A glitch that apparently occurred in Google’s “Stop Badware” program led to what Verizon’s security blog called a “self-inflicted denial of service” Saturday morning, with all search results warning “this site may be harmful to your computer.”
Jan
31
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.
Jan
31
For a short time this morning, Google listed every site on the Internet as malware.
Jan
31
Google said that for nearly an hour on Saturday, users got an erroneous message when they did searches on many sites, saying, “This site may harm your computer.”
Jan
31
Google?s Internet search service malfunctioned for nearly 55 minutes on Saturday morning.
Jan
31
Computer users doing Google searches during a nearly one-hour period today were greeted with disturbing but erroneous messages that every site turned up in the results might be harmful.
Jan
31
Google is blaming “human error” for today’s search results screw-up that flagged the entire Web as serving up malicious code. But the company’s explanation, detailed in a blog post by VP of search products and user experience Marissa Mayer incorrectly linked StopBadware.org to…
Jan
31
The search engine Google sparked online confusion Saturday when a glitch in its security program temporarily warned users that websites from all search results were potentially harmful.
Jan
31
Computer users doing Google searches during a nearly one-hour period Saturday were greeted with disturbing but erroneous messages that every site turned up in the results might be harmful.