R help - Jan 2009 - This site may harm your computer - Google warning about cran website

This is extremely annoying (and it smells of rat). 
As of this time (1013 am ET), Google issues the following nasty warning:
"This site may harm your computer"
when I try to visit any of the CRAN package repository sites or CRAN task view. 

The funny thing is that Google's Safe Browsing Diagnostic page (it gives
diagnostics about any page that
it may contain Malware) does not seem to be working at the moment, so that the
problems that it found
with CRAN are not available for review.

Anyone else has the same problems? 

Christos Argyropoulos

University of Pittsburgh

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I am having this same problem with a huge number of sites, not just
CRAN.

On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Christos Argyropoulos
<argchris at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> This is extremely annoying (and it smells of rat).
> As of this time (1013 am ET), Google issues the following nasty warning:
"This site may harm your computer"
> when I try to visit any of the CRAN package repository sites or CRAN task
view.
>
> The funny thing is that Google's Safe Browsing Diagnostic page (it
gives diagnostics about any page that
> it may contain Malware) does not seem to be working at the moment, so that
the problems that it found
> with CRAN are not available for review.
>
> Anyone else has the same problems?
>
> Christos Argyropoulos
>
> University of Pittsburgh
>
> _________________________________________________________________
>
> !
>
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at r-project.org mailing list
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> PLEASE do read the posting guide
http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
>

What OS/browser versions are you guys using?

Christos Argyropoulos wrote:
> This is extremely annoying (and it smells of rat). 
> As of this time (1013 am ET), Google issues the following nasty warning:
"This site may harm your computer"
> when I try to visit any of the CRAN package repository sites or CRAN task
view.
> 
> The funny thing is that Google's Safe Browsing Diagnostic page (it
gives diagnostics about any page that
> it may contain Malware) does not seem to be working at the moment, so that
the problems that it found
> with CRAN are not available for review.
> 
> Anyone else has the same problems? 
> 
> Christos Argyropoulos
> 
> University of Pittsburgh
> 
> _________________________________________________________________
> 
> !
> 
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at r-project.org mailing list
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> PLEASE do read the posting guide
http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.

On 31/01/2009 10:19 AM, Christos Argyropoulos wrote:
> This is extremely annoying (and it smells of rat). 
> As of this time (1013 am ET), Google issues the following nasty warning:
"This site may harm your computer"
> when I try to visit any of the CRAN package repository sites or CRAN task
view.
> 
> The funny thing is that Google's Safe Browsing Diagnostic page (it
gives diagnostics about any page that
> it may contain Malware) does not seem to be working at the moment, so that
the problems that it found
> with CRAN are not available for review.
I suspect that the server that maintained those records was down, and 
their fallback was to assume that if it didn't respond, there was a 
problem.  The error message therefore showed up almost everywhere, but 
is fixed now.

One speculation:  The error page told you you could go to the selected 
URL "at your own risk".  Does that mean they'll assume
responsibility
that all links are safe if they don't warn you?

Duncan Murdoch