A major hiccup at Google Saturday morning caused the entire Internet to be flagged as malware.

For a short period during the hiccup, Firefox was blocking access to Web sites with the standard “This is an attack site!” warning.  And, Google search results had the “This site may harm your computer” next to each result.

This was a Google problem and didn’t have anything to do your website, but so many people use Google to reach sites, it could have seemed to your customer something was wrong.

If your customers happen to have experienced this when trying to access your site through Google, you may want to explain this to them.  Here is an article for more info:  http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/this-site-may-harm-your-computer-on.html

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