Google warning about malware

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So, is this some new Google feature or something? Well, I just went to that stopbadware.org site and got some info.

stopbadware.org
Warning

The website you attempted to visit has been reported to StopBadware.org as a site that hosts or distributes badware.

What is this page?
You landed on this page because members of the public reported this website to StopBadware.org as hosting or distributing badware. Though our researchers have not yet reviewed this website, once they do, this warning page will be replaced with a detailed report on the site's badware. To see the reports we've done to date, click here.
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stopbadware.org
What is StopBadware.org?
StopBadware.org is a "Neighborhood Watch" campaign committed to fighting badware by providing reliable, objective information about downloadable applications so that consumers can make informed choices when they download programs to their computers. StopBadware.org is led by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, the Oxford Internet Institute, Google, Lenovo, and Sun Microsystems.
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Pretty interesting.
 
Is it a Google feature or an IE7 feature?

I'm asking because although this looks like it was definitely from Google, I remember seeing something like this in my brief use of IE7 Beta.
 
wfooshee
Is it a Google feature or an IE7 feature?

I'm asking because although this looks like it was definitely from Google, I remember seeing something like this in my brief use of IE7 Beta.
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He's using Firefox and it says: "advisory provided by Google" so I'd say it's a Google feature.

You are thinking about IE7's phishing filter.
 
dougiemeats
You are thinking about IE7's phishing filter.
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Which is absolute rubbish. Every once and a while I get the phishing emails, and I go to the site to see if the filter traps it, and it hasn't yet.

It has triggered a few false positives on sites for opensource software, though.
 

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