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Feb. 13, 2007 at 8:58am Eastern by Barry Schwartz
Google Search Results Now May Display Malware Warnings
Google Operating Systems reports that Google has changed the way they handle warning searchers of sites that may contain malware on them.
It notes that a search on beautiful free screensaver currently brings up a result from elitesavers.com that has a message from Google reading: "This site may harm your computer." That message links directly to a Google help document explaining the message in more detail.
Here is a screen capture if you do not see it:
Chris Sherman wrote Matt Cutts On Appealing Google Malware Warnings which discusses how Google handled potential malware sites in the past. Also, towards the bottom of Danny's January 2007 Update On Google Indexing & Ranking Issues he writes about "Malware Reporting."
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