This is extremely annoying (and it smells of rat). As of this time (1013 am ET), Google issues the following nasty warning: "This site may harm your computer" when I try to visit any of the CRAN package repository sites or CRAN task view. The funny thing is that Google's Safe Browsing Diagnostic page (it gives diagnostics about any page that it may contain Malware) does not seem to be working at the moment, so that the problems that it found with CRAN are not available for review. Anyone else has the same problems? Christos Argyropoulos University of Pittsburgh _________________________________________________________________ !
This site may harm your computer - Google warning about cran website
7 messages · Gabor Grothendieck, Erik Iverson, Barry Rowlingson +3 more
I am having this same problem with a huge number of sites, not just CRAN. On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Christos Argyropoulos
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This is extremely annoying (and it smells of rat). As of this time (1013 am ET), Google issues the following nasty warning: "This site may harm your computer" when I try to visit any of the CRAN package repository sites or CRAN task view. The funny thing is that Google's Safe Browsing Diagnostic page (it gives diagnostics about any page that it may contain Malware) does not seem to be working at the moment, so that the problems that it found with CRAN are not available for review. Anyone else has the same problems? Christos Argyropoulos University of Pittsburgh
_________________________________________________________________ ! ______________________________________________ R-help at r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
What OS/browser versions are you guys using?
Christos Argyropoulos wrote:
This is extremely annoying (and it smells of rat). As of this time (1013 am ET), Google issues the following nasty warning: "This site may harm your computer" when I try to visit any of the CRAN package repository sites or CRAN task view. The funny thing is that Google's Safe Browsing Diagnostic page (it gives diagnostics about any page that it may contain Malware) does not seem to be working at the moment, so that the problems that it found with CRAN are not available for review. Anyone else has the same problems? Christos Argyropoulos University of Pittsburgh
_________________________________________________________________ ! ______________________________________________ R-help at r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
2009/1/31 Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendieck at gmail.com>:
I am having this same problem with a huge number of sites, not just CRAN.
Google seem to have fixed it now. Almost every site had this warning attached. Don't panic. The internet is safe (unless Jen drops it...[1]). Barry [1] The IT Crowd (UK TV show)
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On 31/01/2009 10:19 AM, Christos Argyropoulos wrote:
This is extremely annoying (and it smells of rat). As of this time (1013 am ET), Google issues the following nasty warning: "This site may harm your computer" when I try to visit any of the CRAN package repository sites or CRAN task view. The funny thing is that Google's Safe Browsing Diagnostic page (it gives diagnostics about any page that it may contain Malware) does not seem to be working at the moment, so that the problems that it found with CRAN are not available for review.
I suspect that the server that maintained those records was down, and their fallback was to assume that if it didn't respond, there was a problem. The error message therefore showed up almost everywhere, but is fixed now. One speculation: The error page told you you could go to the selected URL "at your own risk". Does that mean they'll assume responsibility that all links are safe if they don't warn you? Duncan Murdoch
Hey all, Just now I ran into this update on Google Blog explaining the whole incident: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/this-site-may-harm-your-computer-on.html
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca> wrote:
On 31/01/2009 10:19 AM, Christos Argyropoulos wrote:
This is extremely annoying (and it smells of rat). As of this time (1013 am ET), Google issues the following nasty warning: "This site may harm your computer" when I try to visit any of the CRAN package repository sites or CRAN task view. The funny thing is that Google's Safe Browsing Diagnostic page (it gives diagnostics about any page that it may contain Malware) does not seem to be working at the moment, so that the problems that it found with CRAN are not available for review.
I suspect that the server that maintained those records was down, and their fallback was to assume that if it didn't respond, there was a problem. The error message therefore showed up almost everywhere, but is fixed now. One speculation: The error page told you you could go to the selected URL "at your own risk". Does that mean they'll assume responsibility that all links are safe if they don't warn you? Duncan Murdoch
______________________________________________ R-help at r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
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