Yahoo says Google is a malware
Apparently, Yahoo’s partnership with Mcafee has some minor glitch. Yahoo Search tags a Google result as malware. Curiously, searching for “google” doesn’t display this warning. Searching for “altavista” does.
Do you think this is an honest mistake, a prank or a joke? Whatever it is, my guess is Google is not laughing.
Update: Yahoo already fixed the glitch concerning Google. However, one site, whose not as big as Google, is also affected by this anomaly. The site owner claims they are not spammers as tagged by Yahoo Search. E-mail correspondence with Yahoo, so far, isn’t doing very well, according to the site owner. Ouch!
"blog out of a machine". I just like the sound of it.
hahahaha! this one made me laugh
malware ang google.. toink!
Things like that are minor glitches… until it hits you. Yahoo has pegged our site as a spammer. I’ve posted the e-mails from Yahoo about how it has no control over its site or marketing programs. No word from McAfee.
http://www.revenews.com/davidlewis/my-life-as-a-spammer-or-so-says-yahoo/
I think this is an obvious case of unfair competition by McAfee. I wrote about my experience with the unfair ratings - Want to know how McAfee “SiteAdvisor” makes money on you? See if you are one of the targets: http://www.smartpctools.com/truth
You can get a negative rating just for a link to a site that is considered hazardous by them.
This is serious stuff. They can’t just go and police anybody without having a quick way of undoing the negative rating. Who’s going to police the police?