This Site May Harm Your Computer
I was very confused yesterday when every site returned for any Google search was saying ‘this site may harm your computer’. Thinking this must be the result of some kind of spyware/adware on my laptop I ran every test I could think of and checked out all of the processes running on my machine.
It turns out that the actual reason was Google’s fault. All domains were affected as the domain ‘/’ was added to the list of unsafe domains. Whilst mistakes do happen, I am very suprised that Google don’t have more safeguards in place to prevent a massive error like this getting through.
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Well they have said that they will “put more robust file checks in place to prevent it from happening again”. However a lot of people would have lost out on profits because of this. Even if it was only 40 minutes. And Google are hardly likely to recompensate them. This is a blatent human error of course and these things do happen. But that shouldn’t be an excuse for it. God forbid this ever happen again!