{"id":12838,"date":"2009-01-31T07:31:26","date_gmt":"2009-01-31T07:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/01\/31\/this-site-will-not-harm-your-computer\/"},"modified":"2009-01-31T07:31:26","modified_gmt":"2009-01-31T07:31:26","slug":"this-site-will-not-harm-your-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/01\/31\/this-site-will-not-harm-your-computer\/","title":{"rendered":"This Site <i>Will Not<\/i> Harm Your Computer!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Using the Google search engine this morning, I noticed that every search I did brought up sites&#0160;flagged with the &#39;This site may harm your computer&#39; warning.&#0160; I even Googled &#39;Google&#39; and got the same result!&#0160; Could Google be flagging every site brought up by its engine?&#0160; That would be such an obvious piece of fear-mongering and traffic-reducing stupidity that I hesitate to impute it to them.&#0160; Any thoughts from the computer <em>cognoscenti<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>Despite my catchy title, it is your responsibility take precautions whenever you connect with anything in any way.&#0160; I am responsible for the content of this site, including in some measure the content of the comments, which is why I delete stupid and otherwise offensive comments and block&#0160;those who send them.&#0160; But I take no responsibility for what goes on at the server end.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: 9:30 AM.&#0160; <a href=\"http:\/\/alexanderpruss.blogspot.com\/\">Alexander Pruss<\/a> informs me that the problem has been fixed.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: 1:30 PM. Google <a href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">explains<\/a> the origin of the error.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using the Google search engine this morning, I noticed that every search I did brought up sites&#0160;flagged with the &#39;This site may harm your computer&#39; warning.&#0160; I even Googled &#39;Google&#39; and got the same result!&#0160; Could Google be flagging every site brought up by its engine?&#0160; That would be such an obvious piece of fear-mongering &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/01\/31\/this-site-will-not-harm-your-computer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;This Site <i>Will Not<\/i> Harm Your Computer!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}