Google looking out for us?

Doing their part to prevent spyware

[MrFishGuy]

After reading an article about a particularly insidious spyware program that attempts to cover itself as legimate by requiring you accept a long, vague TOS allowing it to abuse you, I decided to visit one of the sites that push it to read the TOS and get a laugh. I entered the site name into Google and it came up as the number 1 result. When I clicked on the link, I got this warning from Google: "Warning - the site you are about to visit may harm your computer!" along with instructions on how to avoid it.

This is the first time I've seen that and thought it was great. Has anyone else received that warning when doing searches?

[tedster]

We heard a few weeks back that they were beginning to do this, but I have yet to run into it so far. Guess I don't get into that part of town enough.

[MrFishGuy]

I'm sure this will lead to webmasters who are upset that their site ends up in that category, but I think it's a great new feature and will save some less informed people alot of headaches.

[texasville]

google any crack site and it will pop up this warning. Also game cheat code sites have a lot of this.
I just wish google would concentrate on straightening out their algos instead of putting more bells and whistles on their index.