Google: The Whole Internet Infected?

Many faithful Googlers awoke Saturday morning to discover that any website they wanted to visit may corrupt their computer.  That of course was not the case, but for about 40 minutes Saturday morning, all Google search results returned the attention grabbing warning: “This site may harm your computer.”

According to their blog, the actual cause of the warning was human error.  While installing an update to the file that helps filter out the bad guys on the internet someone accidentally entered “/”.  That of course caused all websites to carry the ominous warning.

So it seams that even the most powerful search network engine on the planet, relyes on the least reliable entity… the human.

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