PNWDweller Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 Rebooted router, rebooted machine, rebooted modem, full spyware, virus scan, all clean. Still thinks I am a spybot for some reason. Any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobster Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 Cleared temporary files? Deleted Google cookies? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Veteran Posted February 20, 2008 Veteran Share Posted February 20, 2008 what did you search? ste Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abhishek kapoor Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 If u have any other PC try from that ......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PNWDweller Posted February 20, 2008 Author Share Posted February 20, 2008 Yeah, I did. Both IE and Firefox yield the same results. Searching through the internet right now is yielding some interesting results. I am not alone in this, apparently from what I am gathering, people who have complained to Google about this are getting a canned response saying that someone on the ISP (in my case Charter), is abusing the network doing automated searches, so they turned the page on for those who are in the same ISP or in my figuring, since Charter is so large, maybe just my geographical area. My search query was 7.1 surround speaker testing. But it is anything on my end. I have tried several different things from that to looking for support on my laser printer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tha Bloo Monkee Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 Know anyone else with your ISP who's getting the same message? I'm curious as to how Google "knows" you're a spybot :s what methods do they use!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OPaul Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 Does the following page identify your browser correctly? http://www.iacta.com/BrowserTests/script/browserid.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PNWDweller Posted February 20, 2008 Author Share Posted February 20, 2008 Does the following page identify your browser correctly?http://www.iacta.com/BrowserTests/script/browserid.htm Yup! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Cryton Subscriber² Posted February 20, 2008 Subscriber² Share Posted February 20, 2008 Rebooted router, rebooted machine, rebooted modem, full spyware, virus scan, all clean. Still thinks I am a spybot for some reason. Any ideas? I used to get this crap all the time, but I've not seen it for a while. I think it's purely done on your IP... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YaZoR Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 Use a proxy when viewing google.com in the meantime if it's annoying you. Here's a quick list for you; 69.217.73.52: 8080 anonymous proxy server Feb-20, 17:44 United States 75.82.204.246: 3128 anonymous server Feb-20, 16:38 United States 68.167.209.90: 8000 anonymous Feb-20, 15:31 United States 8.12.40.183: 80 anonymous proxy Feb-20, 15:32 United States 194.0.163.148: 80 anonymous proxy Feb-20, 16:33 Germany 213.157.69.92: 80 anonymous proxy Feb-20, 16:38 Finland 70.86.151.66: 80 anonymous proxy server Feb-20, 17:42 United States 220.178.98.59: 80 anonymous server Feb-20, 17:30 China 155.136.224.10: 80 anonymous Feb-20, 17:07 United Kingdom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jokeripa Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 What actions would the PC be doing to think its a spybot? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PNWDweller Posted February 20, 2008 Author Share Posted February 20, 2008 Somewhat annoying, but not too bad. I just am surprised by this. I guess I am annoyed that they would assume that I was one, but on the same token, I am glad that they are taking preventative measures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YaZoR Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 Have you contacted them and queried this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PNWDweller Posted February 20, 2008 Author Share Posted February 20, 2008 Not contacted no, because they do canned responses. HMPF! Just saw that it only does this with my personalized home page. Basic gadgets there.... My gmail, movie listings, weather, google calendar and my bookmarks. Nothing more than that. I like to keep the page uncluttered. It has been that way for a long time. Tried several different themes as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OPaul Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 There's a Google Group somewhere for posting questions like this, I can't find it right now though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrimReeper Posted February 21, 2008 Share Posted February 21, 2008 I have got this once before but I've never had it reappear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
randy_tho Posted February 21, 2008 Share Posted February 21, 2008 We were getting this at work the other day. It has been around for a few years. Basicly it is they are seeing an unusal number of search requests from your IP or public subnet. Remember Google bombing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMann Veteran Posted February 21, 2008 Veteran Share Posted February 21, 2008 This happens occasionally with different ISP's, first off reboot your Router to try and get another WAN IP asssigned to your connection. (Hopefully your not on a static WAN. :)) Someone posted a while back about this and Google's servers just do it occassionally when it get's a larger amount of traffic from a range of ISP IP Addresses, if it happens again after around 2 day's and a couple router reboots I would give either Google an e-mail, or maybe if your really that bad call your ISP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HighOnAmbien Posted February 21, 2008 Share Posted February 21, 2008 I get this sometimes when I use the search bar in Firefox, but never when searching directly from the site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
p858snake Posted February 21, 2008 Share Posted February 21, 2008 Its caused when a large amount of quieries come from one ip address, but it usally fixes it self within a day or two, this might be caused if your isp sends your data though an invisable proxy server they run. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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