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#154368 25-Oct-2014 18:25
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Going going super meta, now detecting malware on itself:

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  #1165404 30-Oct-2014 23:53

I thought that goo.gl is google's version of tinyurl.com So guessing that it is warning you that the redirected website has malware on it.







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  #1165441 31-Oct-2014 07:29
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The redirect site was actually Feedburner, Google's own RSS consolidation/management service. Makes it even funnier.




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  #1165463 31-Oct-2014 08:18
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The way their algorithms work, *any* site that someone uses a goo.gl URL to redirect to that contains malware could potentially flag the whole goo.gl domain... you'd think they'd have thought of that one ;)

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