I was surprised to find that Google was blocking the chilis.com domain as malware!
A search for Chili's would result in the following Google results:
(Notice the subtitle of the result pages)
And clicking on one of the links would bring you to Google's standard "You-shouldn't-go-there" page:
I can appreciate that Google is trying to keep us safe, but blocking Chili's website? Are they trying to keep us from getting Salmonella via the web?
According to Google's explanation,
"Of the 48 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 2 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. The last time Google visited this site was on 07/28/2008, and the last time suspicious content was found on this site was on 07/26/2008.
Malicious software is hosted on 3 domain(s), including bce8.ru, iroe.ru, kpo3.ru."
So apparently this is not Google trying to protect us from web-based food poisoning, but simply a case of Russian hackers somehow inserting malicious links into the Chili's website.
2 comments:
Is the diagnostic page IE only? Why did you switch browsers between the second and third picture?
Nope, that diagnostics page is not IE only.
I had both IE and Firefox open while I was writing that post, and when I needed a screen shot of the explanation page just happened to pull it off of IE.
It was interesting to note that in IE, the built in "Phishing Filter" that is supposed to prevent you from visiting malicious pages does not stop you from visiting the Chili's menu page.
In Firefox 3, if the "Tell me if the site I'm visiting is a suspected Attack Site" option is enabled, even manually typing in the chili's menu URL into the address bar will inform you that the site is unsafe.
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