Google Badware?

I just did a search on google and there were new little warnings under some of the results.
This Site May Harm Your Computer

I know just entering the site would not hurt so I clicked it and was taken to this.
www.stopbadware.org
So is google now redirecting our searches just like the malware they warn about?
It actually won't let me in!

http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s258/evilfantasy69/Badware.jpg

 

google is preventing you from viewing a page thats been reported to contain mailicious software.

Are they redirecting your searches? No, they are doing their part in trying to slow down the malware threat.

 

I get what they are doing. I have never seen this or thought they would block access through their searches. I saw the warning. It just strikes me as odd.

 

I first saw it something like a year ago when it was a trial run. Guess they are going through with it.

 

I just saw a post over at Piriform that showed them flagged.
Google "New GUI for JK Defrag" and they are the first hit and flagged as Badware.

 

Well, that was sort of my concern when I found out they were 'voting' on sites to ban with user complaints.

We all know those users who get infected, think they are smart enough to figure out which site infected them, and then bitch and whine.

If those people were to complain to the above site, and nobody was properly checking out these sites to see if the claims were correct, yeah I could see a lot of bad things happening.

Wonder if thats what happened there.

 

Google is under pressure to get it's house in order regarding privacy and i can only think this is a spin off from that!!!

http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=55314

http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/9951/google96b491zk0.th.jpg

 

The site I mentioned are the forums for CCleaner.

So yes, ignorance will show itself from time to time in this new addition.

 

I had the same problem, using his parameters. Its a particular post being flagged.

 

You have to google the phrase I mentined. JK Defrag has nothing to do with Piriform as far as I know besides mentioning it in a post. But they show first on the list in the search and have the This Site May.......

Piriform is not a download site. Even for CCleaner they will send users to other sites to download the program.

 

Interesting as I've never heard about this or just plain don't remember. At least they provide the offending URL if one wants to go there anyway.

 

Ya, makes one wonder what kind of quality assurance, if any, do they have.

 

There is a link posted in the thread that the Google supplied URL takes you to, if you choose to continue on....It may be the link in the thread that is malicious. It goes to emro.nl/freeware and we all know what can happen downloading freeware from some off-the-wall site.

 

McAfee Site Advisor has an All Green Rating for them.

.nl is a Nederlands based site.

 

:confusedYou got me, evil. This watchdog warning is basically for novices anyway. Regular users of the 'net should have developed good surfing habits and if they haven't are probably waiting on answers in some malware forum.
Even my wife, who tends not to listen to most things I tell her, rolleyes heeds the warnings about clicking on strange pop-ups, redirected pages, or emails from strangers. And she never downloads some program because a message tells her she is infected. I am actually pretty proud that she has never been infected.
Now if I could get her to keep from forwarding them stupid chain letters to me. LOL

 

Don't tell my Mom but I have nearly put her on my spam list more then once.rolleyes I can't stand the chain mails either. Not even from loved ones.

Sorry Mom.