Google thinks I'm malware?

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  1. TonyPSchaefer

    TonyPSchaefer Your Friendly Moderator
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    It started this past weekend. When I do a search, I get the attached error message from Google. My wife gets it also on her Mac.
     

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    It probably has something to do with your avatar Braaaaa...

    Turn the sheep around... I'm sure then you'll be recognized by their system and get more... Google... and less ware.


    :D
     
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    Tony, I don't know what to say. Maybe you've been a baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad boy?
     
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    loose wire in the hatch, now this...I hope you have your affairs in order....
     
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    qbee42 My other car is a boat

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    I would guess user error.

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    Ya know, in time the sheep will make sense. I wasn't going to explain it until needed, but here's the story.

    Last year I was walking through a town fair when I saw a card on the ground. White with red diagonal stripes, I couldn't help but to pick it up. When I turned it over, there was a sheep staring at me with the word "SHEEP" printed underneath it. The absurdity of the whole thing made me smile. So I put it in my wallet.

    I'm guessing that somewhere there's a kid with a memory game and only one sheep.

    So now I have this card with a sheep. Every once and I while, perhaps when we're having dinner at a nice place, I pull that card out and show it to my wife, "I bet you never expected to see a sheep here." It usually gets at least a smile.

    But then I got to thinking. Last year I posted a picture of one of my 73+MPG tanks and received one reply from someone to the tune of "in your dreams." That got me thinking: an MFD is an MFD is an MFD. There's no way to distinguish one from another. A well-cropped image would not reveal whose MFD it is. I could hold up my driver's license, but I'm not posting that on the web. I do, however, have a card of a sheep.

    There's a really blurry picture I tried to take in Detroit of the sheep on the hood of the blue 2010.

    So that's the story of the sheep.
     
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    qbee42 My other car is a boat

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    You expect us to believe that story? I suspect there is a lot simpler sheep story.

    Tom
     
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    Agreed

    And where's the ice...

    In all fairness... his story sounds plausible...

    Well... except for that one part...

    And that was just silly.
     
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    Tony

    I like the sheep, she's a real cutie. Youl lucky guy

    jay
     
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    I fully expect to turn on the news one morning and get this Breaking News Story:

    "Chicago feared vaporized in incident involving Prius and sheep"
     
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    This is truly one of those situations in which the safest course of action is to stop talking.


    Unfortunately, I not only rarely take the safest course of action but I also rarely stop talking.
     
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    Since this thread seems to have no chance in Hell of ever addressing the original post - still happens, by the way - I'm going to go ahead and post the picture referenced in the above post.

    And I bet you never expected to see a sheep standing on a 2010 Prius.
     

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    :doh:

    Does it work once you enter the Secret Code Word? You've flushed/cleared your browser cache/cookies?
     
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    Well, certainly not a cutie like that one
     
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    You know I only tease you because I like you? Right?

    :boink:

    I'm laughing *with* you, not *at* you
     
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    Well Braaaaa... it sorta looks like there is a Prius stalking a sheep on a Prius...

    Is this just before the point where a sheep gets porked by a Prius on a Prius...

    Is that even legal in your state...

    Is this what we should expect from ours... I mean... I'm not watching it all the time when it's parked on the driveway... and we do have stray cats in the neighborhood and all... should we chain it to the boat ramp while we're inside asleep or something... I don't want the neighbors to fear our Prius... :D:D
     
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    You say that while poking him with a stick...
     
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  18. TonyPSchaefer

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    Oh yeah, that's Priapite sitting on the wipers there.

    No worries, Jay. :fish:
     
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    But seriously, after you enter the Secret Code Word in Google, can you then proceed with your search?
     
    #19 jayman, Mar 2, 2009
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    Just what kind of search parameters do you use in order to get google to think that you're a bot? Do you type in the letters it asks you to so that it knows you're not a bot?
     
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