Google Malware Bug

Like many others, I was hit with Google's harmful site message. I needed to return a textbook, so this morning I ran a search on Google for the Virginia Tech bookstore. I got the "This site may harm your computer." message, except of course for then Sponsored Links; they worked fine.

Clicking on the first link returned led to Google's blocked site page. I had just rebooted my MacBook after a MacOS update and for a brief moment thought it might be a result of that. The same search at Yahoo quickly showed it was a Google problem as the Yahoo search was successful.




Curious as how they handled the redirection, I saved the page. Examining the page source showed the active link to Virginia Tech's bookstore, nvgc.bncollege.com, was replaced with the redirection to the malware warning but that the original link was still available in the page source link.
So, if the malware warning is real and you are intent on visiting the site, it looks like you can find the link in the page source.

Google has a good description of the bad link problem on their blog.