On Saturday morning between 6:30am and 7:25am PST, Google accidentally marked every single website on the Internet as malware… including this one! It was awesome. Explanation of what happened at the link below, but essentially, they added every single site with a “/” character in it as a malware flag. Smooooooth.
“This Site May Harm Your Computer” on every search result?!?!? [Google Blog]
Image: technabob
isn’t this what is called a MS “feature”?
Whitelisting: you’re doing it wrong.
Well, I guess anything *might* harm your computer.
It caught me just as I was tying up some loose ends for my obscure history blog. I ended up using Yahoo for about twenty minutes, and then realized afterwards that that was the first time I’d used Yahoo in maybe five years….