Last year I visited a website, which deposited adware / spyware on my computer. I didn’t remember which website. However, I was left with a terrible taste from its wrath.

It weaseled into my computer start up system. I tried the remover software out there, and none of it seemed to work. A huge nasty package was deposited on my computer and it went out of control. After I thought I had gotten it deleted, it would actually reinstall itself each time I restarted. I ended up having to reformat the computer and lost a bunch of emails, contacts, etc. Most of my stuff was backed up, but some was lost. I also switched to the Firefox browser since it was known to help prevent this type of thing from happening.

Now forward to today where I was researching some things for my first ebook in Google. I typed in ‘ celebrity resale ‘ and I happened to notice a new showing in the search results. Right below the title, there is a notice that says, “This site may harm your computer”.

If you click the link, it tells you… “Why do some of my search results say, “This site may harm your computer?”"

“We want our users to feel safe when they search the web, and we’re continuously working to identify dangerous sites and increase protection for our users. This warning message appears with search results that we’ve identified as sites that may install malicious software on your computer.”

If you click the title of the result, you’ll be shown the following warning rather than being taken immediately to the webpage in question.

How cool is that? Hopefully this helps prevent others from experiencing the issue I had to deal with.

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