Google displaying computer damage warning on GOP search

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[glock_fan]

I went on line to find the phone number of my local GOP headquarters and I googled California GOP. What I got was a list of valid GOP sites but every one has a warning stating that the site may harm your computer.

I notified the GOP rep. about this. He believes a hacker is at work.

No such problem with Yahoo.

[PapaBear3625]

Hopefully some RNC lawyer will have a chat with them about the legal recourse available to the GOP for falsely and maliciously saying that cagop.org is a malware site.

[TLI]

http://www.dogpile.com/

No problems indicated.

[missnry]

There it is... for the record!!

[Old Professer]

Advisory provided by

Safe Browsing

Diagnostic page for www.cagop.org

What is the current listing status for www.cagop.org?

Site is listed as suspicious - visiting this web site may harm your computer.

Part of this site was listed for suspicious activity 1 time(s) over the past 90 days.

What happened when Google visited this site?

Of the 50 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 42 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. The last time Google visited this site was on 2008-10-17, and the last time suspicious content was found on this site was on 2008-10-17.

Malicious software includes 40 trojan(s). Successful infection resulted in an average of 8 new processes on the target machine.

Malicious software is hosted on 4 domain(s), including new-porn-hub2008.com, e-softpoertals2008.com, vidsdevices.com.

2 domain(s) appear to be functioning as intermediaries for distributing malware to visitors of this site, including denmaster.info, google.com.

Has this site acted as an intermediary resulting in further distribution of malware?

Over the past 90 days, www.cagop.org did not appear to function as an intermediary for the infection of any sites.

Has this site hosted malware?

No, this site has not hosted malicious software over the past 90 days.

How did this happen?

In some cases, third parties can add malicious code to legitimate sites, which would cause us to show the warning message.

Next steps:

• Return to the previous page.
• If you are the owner of this web site, you can request a review of your site using Google Webmaster Tools. More information about the review process is available in Google's Webmaster Help Center.

©2008 Google - Google Home

[Brown Deer]

Campaign contributions for Eric Schmidt, CEO, Google

[LadyPilgrim]

I tried to search and got the same thing.
Communists!

VOTE......McCain/Palin 2008

God bless America!!!

[Brown Deer]

No problem for me. I use Firefox and AVG anti-virus. Are y’all using IE?

This has nothing to do with your browser and anti-virus. It is reported by google and if you did that search then you got the "This site may harm your computer." message.

[Brown Deer]

The California GOP is running a PORN website?

[Brown Deer]

I don’t think so. That site is run by an operator in Tampa, Florida.

[advertising guy]

this mornin a box about google appeared on my screen and no close box.....I clicked cancel and it defaulted my start page....went to computer,programs and hit delete.............nothing............dammit !!!!!!!!

[GoLightly]

That report looks like google is the source of some of the malware?

[Islander7]

“...Folks this is not a virus. Google is deliberately doing this....My guess is they are trying to slow down the YES ON PROP 8 folk...”

I just spoke to Mr. Cummings of the McCain Campaign.

I’m going to Florida to work for Liberty! Yah!

I relayed this Google issue to him, he said he would pass the information along.

[sbhitchc]

Never click a google link that is an advertisement, they make money that way. Use there service while not rewarding them for it by cutting and pasting the URL into your browser’s address bar. That way google does not get ad $$ for it.

[fred the Plumer]

Yahoo works

[Dallas59]

Well...I called their headquarters in Burbank and got a recording. I left a message...along with a couple of hundred other peoples probably.

[Brown Deer]

e-mail received from the webmaster of the California GOP website:

"Thank you for your message.

We're aware of the issue and are working to resolve it."

[Jagermonster]

Everything old is new again:

http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2007/12/28/google-claims-american-spectator-site-may-harm-your-computer

[glock_fan]

Thanks Ben. I added it to my Favorites sidebar.