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Old 01 November 2006, 12:26 PM
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Whats going on at Google if you search for anything it takes you to a dodgy looking google page saying it looks like a request from a virus or spyware program?

Not very elegant........looks dodgy in itself....

Anyone know whats going on?
Old 01 November 2006, 12:28 PM
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Working fine for me. I'd scan your PC for malware if it's till doing it.
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Originally Posted by Dr Hu
Whats going on at Google if you search for anything it takes you to a dodgy looking google page saying it looks like a request from a virus or spyware program?

Not very elegant........looks dodgy in itself....

Anyone know whats going on?
Mines OK?
Old 01 November 2006, 12:40 PM
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Can you give an example of what your search terms? Seems to be working fine for me.
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hmmm - the google searches are being redirected to http://www.google.co.uk/sorry/?conti...baru%26meta%3D

Its not just me - its our whole company.....unless this page has been cached by our ISA proxy server.......

Its looks like a genuine page at the google.co.uk domain......doesn't it?
Old 01 November 2006, 01:15 PM
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I just typed "T1ts" into Google.It came up with the goods.

Nothing wrong with Google at all
Old 01 November 2006, 01:17 PM
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Originally Posted by stilover
I just typed "T1ts" into Google.It came up with the goods.

Nothing wrong with Google at all
Me too.........

Old 01 November 2006, 01:23 PM
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oh smeg....whats going on then.....

this is the url our searches are being directed too:-

ww.google.co.uk/sorry/?continue=http://www.google.co.uk/search%3Fhl%3Den%26q%3Dsubaru%26meta%3D

(first w dropped from url to show proper text - the word 'subaru' is the search term)

It comes to this page:-
with a 'enter the characters to continue' type box - where if you enter the distorted characters it continues and then works OK. Until a new search....

Google Error


We're sorry...
... but your query looks similar to automated requests from a computer virus or spyware application. To protect our users, we can't process your request right now.

We'll restore your access as quickly as possible, so try again soon. In the meantime, if you suspect that your computer or network has been infected, you might want to run a virus checker or spyware remover to make sure that your systems are free of viruses and other spurious software.

We apologize for the inconvenience, and hope we'll see you again on Google.
To continue searching, please type the characters you see below:



Anybody any clues here?

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Old 01 November 2006, 01:28 PM
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seems fine to me



Old 01 November 2006, 01:44 PM
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I have just done a search on "breasts" and it's come up with pages full of them



What happend to my Google safe search filter



Oh yea I turned it off
Old 01 November 2006, 02:02 PM
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OK - Its seems were not the only one's to have had problems with this - it's a 'captcha' page from Google as an attempt to stop automated requests or something......

Stupid Google virus/spyware captcha page (Spy Blog)

Seems our ISP's IP address is blacklisted at Google or something.....
Old 01 November 2006, 02:03 PM
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Originally Posted by BOB.T
seems fine to me



Busted
LMFAO
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