Google saying This site may harm your computer on most searches

I own the site stopbadware . org... I was just doing some BH'ing! Sure did bring me lots of traffic!!! ;-)

Normally I just lurk around here, but couldn't resist!
 
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Wish I had a site in Yahoo or MSN with PPV or CPM position #1 for "This site will harm your computer"...

Now "thats" what I call BH!!!
 
Chill, Its fixed now ppl. Stuff happens to everyone and the big G is not an exception!
 
the official explanation :http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/this-site-may-harm-your-computer-on.html

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. Fortunately, our on-call site reliability team found the problem quickly and reverted the file. Since we push these updates in a staggered and rolling fashion, the errors began appearing between 6:27 a.m. and 6:40 a.m. and began disappearing between 7:10 and 7:25 a.m., so the duration of the problem for any particular user was approximately 40 minutes.
 
I wish next time they put in my sites name by mistake (err... ahem... human error) :D :D
 
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