And here I thought the true nature of the internet had been reviled.

But seriously, I thought it was just me, good to know it's happening to everyone.

I tried on 4 different computers with 4 different operating systems, and 3 different browsers... all came to the same result. I've spent the last 45 minutes messing with this issue.

It appears to be fixed now. Crisis averted, move along, nothing to see here...

Oh it was a problem with google. I thought it was googlepreview, my favorite FF extension.

Also: Everybody poops.

@Barclay Hygaard: Often reviled, rarely revealed.

Thanks for reporting on this. I thought I was hallucinating for a second since I the problem came up then a few seconds I searched again and it was gone.

i noticed that too...I was like "what the crap! is there a new worm that's infected every system in the web?!?!" I was about to panic thinking about the servers at work.

It all boils down to the economy I tell you...the economy!

Big brother only letting us to see what he wants us
to see by implied threat of computer harm?

and here i thought it was funny when the cal trans gov site had the warning. thanks for ruining the fun!

I am not goint to lie, I started stomping around the house looking for my wife this morning to see what kind of crap she had infected my computers with. I was happy to see it was a mistake.

I knew it couldn't have been my pr0n sites, because I trust those guys.

yeah... I removed a couple things from my searches before realizing google was messing up.... now I have absolutely no idea how to get those things back....

Holy crap... I was one of the first to post this at 9:36!

[techlife.scriptful.com]

[digg.com]

OK, I'll stop whoring now.

Only happened with google.com though, I checked with a couple of friends who have they're country specific googles (google.com.ar, etc) and they didn't seem to be affected.

I wandered over to whitehouse.gov to see if that malicious also, it was, so I figured Google had some bugs.

@Julian Jares: No, it happened to me with Google Hong Kong.

I Google "google" and they had malicious content...

@Coksibum: Why?

I'm just glad it was google and not another bloody virus on my bloody pc.now i can stop panicking and stop chill with the scanners :)

@Yamil Nakhleh: Don't do that! You might rip a hole in the fabric of space time by googling Google!

Err, or something like that...

;-)

Bajillions across the net all freaked out together & ran to various sites to ask WTF was going on. I went to reddit to post ask.

@ojzitro: Why? Because it finally told us the truth?
[/sarcasm]

It couldn't be Google's fault. After all they "do no evil"

This was pissing me off this morning because on some sites Google wouldn't even allow me to ignore their "helpful" warning and copy/paste the url into my browser - instead of the "warning! This site is bad and nasty, visit at your own peril!" page, I was getting a message telling me I was denied access to the site altogether. Only a minor inconvenience, as I could just type in the url myself, but still...

When I was checking to see if Google thought EVERY site was malicious, the only search result that didn't come up with that warning was for the IRS website. Hah!

Wow, I thought it was just me

seems to be fixed now

@Shadowfire:
HAHAHAHA....good call.

And here I thought it was because I was using someone else's wifi to get around my work firewall.

yeah i was experiancing this too this morningi thought it was a glitch, bad google bad

@SweetBearCub:

Luckily i won't use google that much anymore :D

@Coksibum: hah. posted one minute before it got better.

Use Yahoo for your searches. You'll usually get the site you are looking for --- or a more reliable site if you don't know of a specific site to look for --- higher on the results on Yahoo than on Google.

@Addicted To Chocohol: Sorry to burst your bubble, but James Aylett beat you by 6 minutes: [twitter.com] :-p

I was getting Katherine Albrect's newsletter (the privacy author/activist who is anti-spychip consumer card) and she recommended ixquick.com as a private search engine that doesn't gather info on people, so that's an option. Scroogle.org is another one.

@Coksibum: Yes, why? yahoo was working fine. It was only Google. I briefly thought it was my computer but then I remembered I was using my Mac and not my HP so I knew it was them. I confirmed this by performing the same search in Yahoo.

@Mr_Human: back @ Mr_Human: Just to verify it wasn't a router issue from an internal network standpoint. I originally found this on my powerbook, so i tried my macbook. I was trying to figure out if it was a browser issue (FF, Safari, or IE) and i wanted to verify it wasn't a virus my wife got on one of the computers.

Just call me thorough. :-)

@Coksibum: I switched to yahoo. In 30 seconds.

@zenpoet: SOMEbody is going to be spending a very cold night on the couch this year on Steak and Blowjobs Day.

I did a search on "Hawaii vacations" around then and the top ten results got that message about possibly being harmful. Now it seems to be back to normal.

like everyone else i noticed this too and figured google would figure it out pretty quickly. how long did it take them? who did this? some disgrunted google employee? malicious hacker poking fun at the national/international obsession with googling as a fun time activity?

Wait, is anyone else besides me STILL having this problem?

I'm having the same issue described here, and have been since yesterday. Only it's not just Google, it's Yahoo search as well. On multiple web browsers.

Help!

I got a paypal shipping email this morning between those hours that Gmail flagged as "possibly not from who it says it is" i.e. phishing. It's not though, so maybe the same problem.

I think Google has a question for you - "What were you guys doing up so early on Saturday morning? You were supposed to be catching up on sleep after a late Friday night full of booze!"

@ceez: Haven't you seen Die Hard (the last one). It's a firesale!

First they take down the economy. Then they put the Cards and Steelers in the finals. Finally, they hijack the all-seeing entity known as Google.

OH NOES!!!!!!!!!!!!!

When sites like government-based ones, etc., started giving that warning, I figured it had to be a bug and just gave up. Glad it's fixed now.

@special4k4: 360 seconds... who cares?

@Coksibum: You're obviously an overachiver.