Re: Google blocking domains - conflicker?

google has been doing this for a while, it tends to happen a lot if you are
behind a large proxy as multiple search requests from the same ip do look a
bit like bot-like activity. I don't think this is to do with conficker.
IIRC they did this to stop malicious search engine optomisation but I could
be wrong. Check you aren't behind your ISP's transparent proxy with one of
the many online checkers
eg: http://www.lagado.com/tools/cache-test

On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 11:52 AM, Michael Lake <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi all
>
> At the UTs here it looks like Google is blocking all searches. I get this
> from my Linux and Windows boxes. My colleauge also gets this message so its
> occuring on 3 machines:
>
> "We're sorry...
> ... but your query looks similar to automated requests from a computer
> virus or spyware application. To protect our users, we can't process your
> request right now."
>
> Is anyone else seeing this? I'm wondering if the conflicker virus is
> responsible and how far widespread this might be. I use Google instead of a
> brain these days and can't do much without it :-)
>
> Mike
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