I have seen too many sites that has "This site may harm your computer" under search, even thought they are not! How does Google, MSN and other search engines classify them?
Here is some info directly from Google: http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=45449 Reported sites can get that tag and perhaps even ones that look and act like other malicious sites. If you got this tag on a site that isn't malicious, you should email Google and you can probably get it reviewed/reversed.
I had this happening in my own site. This is what i came up with it. The sites who have images from certain sites who give out viruses are classified as harmful. I had a few images from a site which gave out high number of popups and the cache content was harmful for my PC. As i use to visit my own site, it was classified as harmful. When i removed that image, the error was removed instantly. Hope this information helps.
Google 'error' labels websites as harmful WASHINGTON (AFP) — The search engine Google sparked online confusion Saturday when a glitch in its security program temporarily warned users that websites from all search results were potentially harmful. Between 1430 and 1525 GMT, sites turned up in search results were marked as harmful and users received the message: "Warning! This site may harm your computer." "What happened? Very simply, human error," Goggle vice president for search products and user experience Marissa Mayer said on the company's official blog. Google receives regular updates to a list of malicious websites from StopBadware.org, which investigates consumer complaints. "We periodically receive updates to that list and received one such update to release on the site this morning," Mayer explained. "Unfortunately (and here's the human error), the URL of '/' was mistakenly checked in as a value to the file and '/' expands to all URLs." Users who tried to access the site were blocked by Google, which directed them to StopBadware.org. The firm works with Google to determine which sites are dangerous. "This led to a denial of service of our website as millions of Google users attempted to visit our site for more information," StopBadware.org said in a statement. Google was back to normal between 1510 and 1525 GMT. The company expressed "apologies to any of you who were inconvenienced this morning, and to site owners whose pages were incorrectly labelled." The Mountain View, California-based company said it "will carefully investigate this incident and put more robust file checks in place to prevent it from happening again." The outage, widely discussed on Internet blogs and forums, did not affect Google's news search service. Google controls about 70 percent of Internet searches, a market share that has grown steadily in recent years. http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5j4Sn-ehiL1W52Xn6UoqhUx2AQ_tw
I also wonder why this harm site statement appear under search sometimes. Perhaps it was a technical or human error??
I had also noticed it yesterday. My site was labeled as harmful but on very next search "Harmful" tag was removed from search result. Not sure what happened but I was just shocked for a moment by seeing that as my site traffic depends on Google search. Kailash
It means that site has some malicious codes that can affect ur pc security, that code is usually not add by owner but hijackers add them sometimes for attracting traffic towards some websites , or tracking user info.
I noticed this happened to almost every site in search results yesterday in google. It must have been an error. They did get it fixed though.
Nope.. my site has no such contents. In fact it was an error from Google on Jan 31 between 6:30 a.m. PST and 7:25 a.m. PST. For more details read their below blog: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/this-site-may-harm-your-computer-on.html Kailash
About ur site i am not sure, u can better judge ur site. I shared what happened with my site last year. I did nothing but someone hijack site and add some malicious code in it.