This site may harm your computer

Google seems to be broken at the moment, informing users who run a Google search that EVERY site on the web will harm your computer.

The software, when working, is able to warn users of harmful sites; but at the moment even searching for “Google” and clicking on Google.com is returning the message “This site may harm your computer”.

The Nested Elements website will not harm your computer, we are safe to use.

We’ll post an update once we’ve heard more from Google. Hopefully, they will fix the problem soon!

UPDATE: The problem has now been resolved.

UPDATE: Google have posted a blog response explaining the site warning message:

What happened? Very simply, human error. Google flags search results with the message “This site may harm your computer” if the site is known to install malicious software in the background or otherwise surreptitiously. We do this to protect our users against visiting sites that could harm their computers. We maintain a list of such sites through both manual and automated methods. We work with a non-profit called StopBadware.org to come up with criteria for maintaining this list, and to provide simple processes for webmasters to remove their site from the list.

We periodically update that list and released one such update to the site this morning. Unfortunately (and here’s the human error), the URL of ‘/’ was mistakenly checked in as a value to the file and ‘/’ expands to all URLs.

D’oh!