Re: Google blocking domains - conflicker?

Morgan Storey wrote:
> 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

Ok. That shows I have a caching proxy in front of me.
Looks like though it's ok now for Windows. Its giving me search results again.
Looks like its tempory. I was putting 2 + 2 = 5

> 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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