New oddity with Google

[Bill Campbell]

On Sun, Jul 08, 2007, Collins Richey wrote:
>On 7/8/07, Bruce Marshall <bmarsh at bmarsh.com> wrote:
>> On Sunday 08 July 2007, Collins Richey wrote:
>> > > No this is Kosher. Google appears to be doing some pre-scanning so it
>> > > doesn't serve a page that is hosting exploit code, but warns you in
>> > > advance. I had this occur to me the other day under FF 2.0.0.4 under
>> > > Fedora 7
>> > >
>> > > I suppose if you are looking for db functions then it's going to be all
>> > > hot and bothered about anything that looks like an attempt at SQL
>> > > injection.
>> >
>> > Kosher but dumb! And a pain in the butt.
>>
>> Might this be something to do with your gmail usage?   I suspect those of us
>> who reported normal answers to the query don't use gmail.
>>
>
>Anything is possible, but I fail t see the connection
>
>> I've never seen a 'this maybe spam" mentioned on a google query.
>>
>> Are you using any 'google goodies' (extentions) in your browser?
>
>Nope, none.
>
>OK, here's the irony. If I visit www.google.com, I get the expected
>response - list of pages to view. If I issue the same query through
>the Firefox search (top right in a Firefox screen), I get the popup,
>so Firefox must be adding something to the search that causes the
>popup.

I did my search from the Firefox search.

Perhaps you have a Firefox plugin that's doing this?  The only plugins I'm
running are Adblocker, web development tool, firebug. and Selenium IDE.

Bill
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