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A comment on Google giving Malware Warning on all search results (now fixed).

Re:Google giving Malware Warning on all search results (now ... by steamboiler on Saturday January 31, 2009 @12:17PM (#459783)
Here is the official explanation from Google: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/this-site-may-harm-yo...
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Re:Google giving Malware Warning on all search results (now ... by timf on Saturday January 31, 2009 @12:50PM (#459823)
"StopBadware.org to get our list of URLs"

"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."

Sounds like an opportunity to add a new acceptance test on items in that list :-)

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Re:Google giving Malware Warning on all search results (now ... by timf on Sunday February 01, 2009 @12:29AM (#460571)
Turns out they do not get a lits of URLs from there.

cf. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=460426

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