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As you know, the forum has been fighting spammers and bots for years. We have seen our fair share of "Custom Kitchens UK", scammy Internet hosting companies, and bots trying to send us to a business's homepage. But after fighting the tidal wave of spam for so many years, the admins had a persistent thought: what if the spammers are right? Not in terms of posting nonsense links and trying to scam our users, but in trying to make money through our unique platform?

Well, thanks to the helpful counsel of Taunt, we have finally decided to move the forum in a new direction. Please see his important post on the matter in this topic

"Visiting This Website May Harm Your Computer"

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landbeforetimelover

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on: January 31, 2009, 11:17:08 AM
Just search anything via google and you'll see what I mean.  It says this about virtually EVERY SINGLE WEBSITE!  When you click on the link, it makes you copy and paste it into a new tab in order to go there?  WTH is google thinking?  According to them, my website (www.landbeforetime.co.nr) and GOF are harmful. :rolleyes:

According to google's search results, www.google.com is also "harmful". :rolleyes:



There's gotta be something wrong here. :p

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Reply #1 on: January 31, 2009, 11:20:05 AM
I didn't notice this topic. I made another one about the same issue. ^^;

But yeah I'm having the same problem. It's Stopbadware.org and Google's partnership that seems to be causing the problem.

Edit: The issue is gone. You should be able to use Google now without those "This site may harm your computer" message. I'm able to anyway.

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Reply #2 on: January 31, 2009, 12:28:35 PM
I had trouble with that too. But you're right DH, it's gone now.

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Reply #3 on: January 31, 2009, 01:07:55 PM
Well for that I'm very grateful.  I couldn't stand searching on google and having to manually go to every single website because it was "harmful". :rolleyes: Glad that's all cleared up.  It's a good idea in theory, but I'd much rather view a few websites that are "harmful" then get websites that aren't "harmful" blocked.

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