November 21, 2007
The Ethiopian Herald is harmful - says Google
When I just tried to go to the website of Ethiopia's state-controlled newspaper the Ethiopian Herald, Google flashed up a warning message saying: "Visiting this web site may harm your computer."
It added: "continue to http://www.ethpress.gov.et/ at your own risk".
Of course, we knew this already.
Posted by aheavens at November 21, 2007 5:09 AM
Comments
Ha!
Posted by: aaron at November 21, 2007 3:12 PM
Far more than you ever wanted to know about these messages at http://ethanzuckerman.com/blog/?p=1346 . My guess - the Ethiopian Herald is hosted by a service provider that's been hacked and there's now a hostile javascript on one or more of their pages. But I'm at Berkman and can ask my colleagues at Stop Badware whether this is, instead, a commentary on the content of the paper in question...
Posted by: EthanZ at November 21, 2007 3:38 PM
ROFL, how appropriate. You made my day :)
Posted by: zewdu at November 22, 2007 12:50 AM
I though you were in the Sudan now.
busy man eh? :/
Posted by: jim at November 22, 2007 2:17 AM
Got the same result in Google. However, I tried to access the site using ZoneAlarm ForceField software which has an inbuilt phishing detector and also Anonymizer which also comes with anti phishing and anti pharming packages. The site is okay to surf though it is under construction. Google got it wrong. But don't be surprised as the government agents are mean enough to put malicious softwares to attack the site's visitors.
Posted by: Werre at November 22, 2007 9:09 AM
Sudan must be boring... ha? :)
Posted by: Wossen at November 24, 2007 2:14 AM