The above message appeared for all the search results from Google search engine on Saturday. The conditions prevailed to nearly an hour between 9:30 am and 10:25 am E.T.
Google gave explanations for the errors in a company blog stating that every site that is found running infected software gets such flagging. To detect such sites, Google uses the StopBadware.org site. It is a nonprofit site project run by Harvard and Oxford Universities’ legal scholars to look for consumer complaints and problems.
Google explains that the error occurred due to human mistake. As the list issued by StopBadware was mistakenly checked in a way that all URLs got accompanied with the alarming message. The problem was noticed through a complaining call received at the consumer help call center. Soon after, the error was rectified.