Google thinks I am a "virus"
>> Monday, July 14, 2008
I was searching for a grocery store in my area, in google, and this is what the result was.
"We're sorry .. but your query looks similar to automated requests from a computer virus or spyware application. .... "
Seems some one had messed up automatic spyware detection. Can this be due to an error in IE?
Update : I just checked couple of more queries, now using firefox, and I got the same error. So it is some thing happening beyond my machine. Can be internal network or google is messing up.
5 comments:
Something on your network is using google to search for vulnerable web applications - this is a common technique used by botnet owners.
Or your just unlucky enough to have a dynamic IP that was used for this sort of activity.
It can be true. This had happened to couple of others in the same network. So its gotta be some one doing something google didn't like, and since we all are sharing the same proxy, we all seems to have been penalized.
Just start unplugging the windows machines, one by one... :)
Good suggestion, but it is not practical in the place where I work :D
Anyway, I was surprised to see this error for the first time. But after some inputs, now I think I know what happened.
Last month, I started seeing this all the time all of a sudden.... and I don't use IE... now it has gone away... I guess its a google bug :D.. it's still in Beta no? ;)
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