The cause apparently was human error at stopbadware.org. An entry of "/" got
in without being caught, and that extends to call the entire Internet
malware. Of course many people may agree with that assessment. :)
More of the story at
http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10012034o-2000331777b,00.htm?new_comment
Steve
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Pruitt" <[email protected]>
To: "NT System Admin Issues" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2009 11:02 AM
Subject: Re: Somebody at google hit the vodak too hard last night
The term malfunction describes observed behavior - something isn't
functioning properly. The cause can be either deliberate or accidental. In
this case, it might be a software change or data entered into a database.
I trust Google to have pretty solid protection against global problems
caused by data entry errors and also regression testing of software
changes. To me, that leaves a deliberate change as the most likely.
We'll hear more fairly soon. In the meantime, I see the problem has been
fixed.
Hmmm. I see Google uses stopbadware.org to identify sites with problems.
Maybe the failure was there?
http://eajournal.wordpress.com/2009/01/31/google-search-errors-created-from-stopbadwareorg-outage/
Steve
----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin Blackstone" <[email protected]>
To: "NT System Admin Issues" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2009 10:10 AM
Subject: RE: Somebody at google hit the vodak too hard last night
Where is the appearance of hacking? It looks like a malfunction to me.
-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Pruitt [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2009 7:08 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Somebody at google hit the vodak too hard last night
Between your message and mine, it certainly looks like Google has been
hacked. Maybe they were hit by a disgruntled employee who left a present
in
case he was laid off?
Steve
----- Original Message -----
From: "Phillip Partipilo" <[email protected]>
To: "NT System Admin Issues" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2009 9:57 AM
Subject: OT: Somebody at google hit the vodak too hard last night
Get a load of this. It appears its not just happening to me either.
Every site is harmful to my computer now!
http://philz.nfshost.com/hello_google_search.pdf
Heh even searching with site:google.com google is telling me that they
are harmful to my computer :-)
- P
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