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drhayden1

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Google Adds Malware Warnings
« on: August 04, 2006, 12:17:57 PM »
Google now shows a warning when you click on certain potentially harmful search results. For example, when you search for list keygen mirc and click on the first result, instead of the target page you’ll see this (Google links to the StopBadware.org initiative, which it also sponsors):

Warning - the site you are about to visit may harm your computer!

You can learn more about malware and how to protect yourself at StopBadware.org.

Suggestions:
• Return to the previous page and pick another result.
• Try another search to find what you’re looking for.

Or you can continue to http://asta-killer.com/list.html.

advisory provided by Google

The URL of above warning is google.com/interstitial?url=http://asta-killer.com/list.html. To test if a specific domain is considered to host malware, you can replace the URL parameter; apparently, only if it’s considered malware will the warning show (otherwise you’ll get a “forbidden” message).

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Re: Google Adds Malware Warnings
« Reply #1 on: August 04, 2006, 01:55:20 PM »
Good idea and service  8)
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Re: Google Adds Malware Warnings
« Reply #2 on: August 04, 2006, 02:19:34 PM »
Hi drhayden1,

As it is the service is found only on the English edition of Google. Nice though.

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Re: Google Adds Malware Warnings
« Reply #3 on: August 04, 2006, 08:36:37 PM »
thanks tech and polonus for the comments :D

be nice if some of the others(yahoo,etc.)would do the same ::)