Google identifies 8153 sites as harmful February 14, 2007

Posted by V.E. in google

Google now warns surfers with message “This site may harm your computer” under potentially unsafe sites on the search results page. Even then you click on the title of such page, you won’t be able to visit it – Google just warns you once again that visiting this site may be harmful to computer and offering you to pick another search result.

For example type “beautiful free screensavers”, you’ll get:

And clicking on the site link will bring warning instead of site:

StopBadware.org site which mentioned in the Google Web Search Help Center is reporting that 8153 URLs now (in the moment of writing) is threatened as harmful and may install malicious software on computer upon visiting.

Another interesting question is why these pages are in search results if Google itself identifies them as harmful?