Some of you might be seeing warning messages from Google or Avast pop up when you try to visit Awards Daily over the past 4 days. And yet, when you are told to click the button to find out why the site is being blocked, you’re directed to page that gives you these reasons:
PC World is reporting Bug in Google’s Blogger Costing Sites Traffic.
Google has been shitting its pants for the past week since a widespread malware outbreak is eating its bread and butter — redirecting searches away from Google’s own lucrative results. So they’ve been aggressively overreacting and branding 60,000 sites with “potentially” malicious tags.
We want you to know that we take all these potential threats very seriously. Sasha and I have both spent hours this weekend thoroughly double-checking and cleansing any remotely suspicious code from the home page. Firefox is receiving numerous complaints from users about false positive warnings. (HallmarkChannel.com and Zippolighters.com both falsely tagged by Google as “‘Reported Attack Site!”). Firefox advises that it’s possible to temporarily shut down the annoying warnings:
Open Tools > Options > Security
Uncheck the option “Tell me if the site I’m visiting is a suspected attack site”
You can choose to trust your own anti-virus software or, as one unhappy Firefox user writes:
Simply unbelievable. Geez, why do we need firewalls, antispyware or antivirus software? The great, omniscient Google God will protect us from EVERYTHING bad and evil.
Since when did we elect Google as the Ultimate Robocop for policing the web?
This is total crap by Firefox and Google. Someone called me to tell me that my site was a reported attack site. I went to google webtools and there are no reports of anything negative nor is there anything on my server that would be bad. I am a web designer so who knows how many possible future clients have been unable to view my website and what our services are. I rarely go to my website except when I update it. They are going to have multiple lawsuits on they keep blocking good websites. I use to like Firefox, up to version 2. Version 3 is a slow beast, and now this!!
We’re working to straighten this out, guys. Thanks for your patience.
