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Google Warns That Google.Com Could Be Dangerous

Internet technology giant Google warned users on Tuesday that its own website is potentially dangerous. Google’s own Safe Browsing Tool responsible for filtering malicious websites found “google.com” to be “partially dangerous.”  Chicago Tribune reports: “Some pages on this website install malware on visitors’ computers,” the Safe Browsing Site Status page warned, adding that “[a]ttackers on this site might try to trick you to download software or steal your information.” Google declined to comment on the site’s status by Tuesday afternoon, but those ominous warnings likely don’t mean that visiting “google.com” itself is dangerous. Instead, they suggest that some people have used Google services to host or link to something malicious, so the tool is flagging the whole domain as a little risky. “Users sometimes post bad content on websites that are normally safe,” the page explained. It’s not clear how long google.com has been flagged as “partially dangerous,” although some reddit users noticed it Tuesday — the same day the Site Status page says its information was last updated. A flurry of blog posts from last November suggest google.com was also flagged with the dubious distinction back then. But google.com is far from alone. Several other major sites that thrive on [...]