Is Google Too Easy on the Malware Button?
Last week, while helping a friend with searching on Google, we ran into an interstitial page presented by Google and which contained a warning, reading “Warning - visiting this web site may harm your computer!“. While Google did not block the site, it did require that we manually type in url. While we just turned back and click on the next result, a PCWorld article, this week, suggests that it may have been a false alert.
In the article the author outline the story of Greenbush Southeast Kansas Education Service Center who (even now) keeps on getting a watning screen while accessed from Google; However, it’s owner, Matt Blatchley, claims that the site is clean.
This Google behavior seems to be linked to the StopBadware.org project who claims that “Google decides whether to flag a Web site based on its own independent scans of the Internet.”
In an attempt to fix the problem StopBadware.org suggests that “if a site contains third-party advertising that has links to other Web sites with malware. Also, an organization’s Web server may have been hacked, or the site itself could have been hacked through a security exploit.”
Is Google being too easy on this “Malware Button”? Is it even responsible for such things a warning? Many of Google’s “sponsored ads” for malware contain malware, so if they pay, is it okay then?
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