Lloyd White wrote:

As far a I know I do not have any virus infection on my Mac but today Google
refuses to do a search for me saying there is a Virus or Spyware on my
computer.
This has nothing to do with your computer. It is likely a machine either on your network, but more likely on your ISP network - that is, likely an infected Windows machine that has the same ISP as you do. I've had that message for weeks. Google has also been issuing captcha's. It mostly happens on Google.com, not Google.com.au, but the latter has been acting up of late.

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I've logged a fault with Optus networking, but they claim they cannot reproduce it. At present they also don't seem able to sniff their own network either :-( They've been asking me to boot into Windows and show that it's something to do with my browser, also they think that my internal IP address - that is, the one behind my modem and the one behind their NAT firewall is the one at fault.

Seems that they really don't know what is going on.

An email from google tells me that "they're sorry", but that's all I've had so far.

Perhaps its time for some communal logging of the phenomenon.

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