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 <murd...@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@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. > -- 彭河森 Hesen Peng http://hesen.peng.googlepages.com/ ______________________________________________ R-help@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.
