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Chill out people, it’s a technical issue.

What’s happening is that Google is indexing the redirection pages that were being used at one point, I suppose to track click-throughs.

The redirection pages forwarding users to another site is triggering Google’s malware warnings - and properly so, since redirects to other domains is a key technique of malicious/infected websites.

The most straightforward fix here is to have the redirect pages removed from the index via a robots.txt statement, then trigger a reindexing of the site through Webmaster Tools.

Alternatively, something can be done with the .htaccess files to take those redirect pages and redirect them to the FR page they are associated with.

While I wouldn’t put political foul play past them, it’s unlikely to be what is going on in this case. This is a technical issue.

Thanks ALL, for your feedback. I'm replying to thoughtomator post 23 primarily, but cc'ing all the rest of you...

The most straightforward fix here is to have the redirect pages removed from the index via a robots.txt statement, then trigger a reindexing of the site through Webmaster Tools.

Alternatively, something can be done with the .htaccess files to take those redirect pages and redirect them to the FR page they are associated with.

While I wouldn’t put political foul play past them, it’s unlikely to be what is going on in this case. This is a technical issue.

Thoughtomator, I don't know WHO you mean to take these steps, each of 300 million internet users in America? or someone who controls the FR web pages? Please clarify.

As for those who recommended Startpage.com instead of Google.com, I tried Startpage.com, and did not get those warnings, but clicking on those hits took me straight to the redirection pages, and I do not like that.
I would much rather the links take me first to the FR page, and if I wish to do so, I can click on the redirection page myself that is listed in the FR Page.

What’s happening is that Google is indexing the redirection pages that were being used at one point, I suppose to track click-throughs.
The redirection pages forwarding users to another site is triggering Google’s malware warnings - and properly so, since redirects to other domains is a key technique of malicious/infected websites.
The most straightforward fix here is to have the redirect pages removed from the index via a robots.txt statement, then trigger a reindexing of the site through Webmaster Tools.

I am not a web page designer or programmer and probably never will be, but I do know this : Any link of any sort that "redirects" me I want no part of.

I use Windows 7 Home premium, and if there is a "preferences" setting in IE11 to never allow redirection, I would be grateful to learn of it.

I've had too many close calls... and life is too short to tolerate lazy or sloppy programmers.