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Bulbapedia -- Google Warning: May Harm Your Computer???

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    is anybody else seeing this with Bulbapedia today??? Google keeps giving me a warning that the site may harm my computer!!! is this a bug with Google??? Bulbapedia is the most trusted source of Pokémon information according to MANY sites and now Google is calling it malicious!!! anybody know what's going on???
     
    I got this as well, and I know other Google Chrome users that got it. I think it's just a bug with Chrome though. Someone that bragged about using Safari seems to not be affected, lol. Hopefully it goes away soon though. :( Serebii is still available though if you need information, as well as the Q&A threads on PC.
     
    Sydian said:
    I got this as well, and I know other Google Chrome users that got it. I think it's just a bug with Chrome though. Someone that bragged about using Safari seems to not be affected, lol. Hopefully it goes away soon though. :( Serebii is still available though if you need information, as well as the Q&A threads on PC.
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    Actually I am using Firefox and Google search is the one telling me it is malicious...
     
    I'm using Explorer, and it was telling me the same thing...I wonder what's going on with Bulbapedia/Google?
     
    Hmm..It happened to me to.Something about programs being installed on people's without their permission or something :\
     
    I'm getting it too on my tablet

    No , just got it back!
    Yay thankyou
     
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    I've been noticing this too so I've been steering clear... I looked it up on Google to see if there was an explanation for why this is happening... Didn't find much; but what I did find that this has happened in the past.
     
    justinrpg said:
    is anybody else seeing this with Bulbapedia today??? Google keeps giving me a warning that the site may harm my computer!!! is this a bug with Google??? Bulbapedia is the most trusted source of Pokémon information according to MANY sites and now Google is calling it malicious!!! anybody know what's going on???
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    I use firefox got the same warning and a malware thing got caught in my virus blocker. So be careful using it for now. Problem is I didnt see anything to contact them. So beware
     
    Yeah - I just saw that too, on Firefox.

    'Sokay - I never use Bulbapedia anyway, since the site runs like molasses at the best of times, so it's no loss. Pokemondb has all the same information in a better format with better coding on better servers.

    In my opinion, of course...
     
    Yeah, I got this warning today too when I was looking up a Pokemon on there. I was like 'what happened'!? Bulbapedia is probably having a problem with their advertisements that they allow on their site, that could be causing it. This was a similar problem on a site that I go on sometimes, and the moderators and admins. fixed it.

    The problem will probably fixed today or in the next few days so their is no need to worry. :)

    Here' a Technical explanation: The first hosted network is TAKE2, which is the TNH (True Name Host) of bulbapedia.com. Google appears as the second "host" as the website, however the third, CONFLUENCE, could be using an intermediary hosted on Google's servers to redirect to their own website. All domain names referenced above have been registered within the past 10 days. This will most likely only be a problem to users if they have not modified their DNS settings using the instructions in this thread. Sadly, even if the user does this, they will still receive a warning if they attempt to browse to bulbapedia.

    I think that's right.
     
    Last time I saw a message like this was when a user where on PC had a image uploaded from an untrusted site, and google just generically listed it as malware, who knows, could be the same thing.
     
    I've been getting it as well. From both Internet explorer, google chrome, and my android browser....I love using bulbapedia's info although I have been steering clear(only visiting sporadically) because of it.
     
    Sydian said:
    I got this as well, and I know other Google Chrome users that got it. I think it's just a bug with Chrome though. Someone that bragged about using Safari seems to not be affected, lol. Hopefully it goes away soon though. :( Serebii is still available though if you need information, as well as the Q&A threads on PC.
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    Safari was affected though! For me at least. ;P
     
    Oh yikes, didn't know it was on other browsers. :( Well this puts us all in a pickle, right? Hopefully this gets fixed soon. I get all my old sprites from Bulbapedia!
     
    It seems that just about all the broswers are saying the same thing...

    I been on the Bulbapedia forums for over two year and I have never had this problem...

    Could it be that something about New Years Eve might have a influence to this or the The Pokemon Company just had enough with them...Sad really....But I can still get on the web site the back way which is through my email but I really shouldn't take that chance...I guess ill give it a shot and monitor everything going on in the back ground of my computer to make sure things are going to be ok...

    https://twitter.com/Bulbapedia Read some of the posts down on the Bulbapedia twitter feed.

    EDIT: I got on the web site the back way which is by my email so you could try that if you want to get on there.
    Double EDIT: I just found some more info why this happened: https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/mon...ogy/story/2011-10-31/corrupted-ads/51048084/1
     
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