{"id":54,"date":"2007-08-04T01:49:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-04T08:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rajiniravi.com\/ravi\/wp\/?p=54"},"modified":"2007-08-04T01:49:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-04T08:49:00","slug":"google-malware-warnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/google-malware-warnings\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Malware Warnings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Searching for some information on baby care on Google, I noticed a malware message below a search result. Now, its a serious blot to the image of a baby care manufacturer that proclaims its products to be safe :).<\/p>\n<p>Pun apart, its the fist time I noticed such a message in Google search result. Started around <a href=\"http:\/\/googlesystem.blogspot.com\/2006\/08\/malware-warnings-on-google-search.html\">August 2006<\/a>, they now show a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/support\/bin\/answer.py?answer=45449&#038;topic=360&amp;hl=en&#038;sa=X&amp;oi=malwarewarninglink&#038;resnum=4&amp;ct=help\">malware warning<\/a> below the title of the search result which t<span>he <a href=\"http:\/\/googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com\/2007\/02\/better-badware-notifications-for.html\">Google blog<\/a> says is for, &#8220;<\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">protecting Google users by showing warnings before they visit dangerous sites<\/span>.&#8221;<a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_nPrdJ8CAbhc\/RrQu6TeIhpI\/AAAAAAAAACo\/BI7fV-NPRCg\/s1600-h\/warning.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_nPrdJ8CAbhc\/RrQu6TeIhpI\/AAAAAAAAACo\/BI7fV-NPRCg\/s400\/warning.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5094748657656825490\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>In this matter too,  Google seems to have taken an attitude akin to its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/t\/dmca_policy\">YouTube policy<\/a> of appeal and we will review your request. In this case a third organization called   <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stopbadware.org\/\">StopBadware.org<\/a>. Searching for this particular site in their database reveals that the site has note been evaluated yet nor appealed.<br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_nPrdJ8CAbhc\/RrQvGDeIhqI\/AAAAAAAAACw\/8mS5qASrpHQ\/s1600-h\/report.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_nPrdJ8CAbhc\/RrQvGDeIhqI\/AAAAAAAAACw\/8mS5qASrpHQ\/s400\/report.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5094748859520288418\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span>I wonder <\/span><span>why Google doesn&#8217;t directly report a site to StopBadware if its spiders detect something malicious?<\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><\/p>\n<p><\/span>As an aside, there is a plug-in for IE and Firefox called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.siteadvisor.com\/\">SiteAdvisor<\/a>, that provide safety ratings  for sites (has a compiled list of sites)  by displaying different colors (green, yellow, red) next to the search results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Searching for some information on baby care on Google, I noticed a malware message below a search result. 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