Google’s had their own interstitial warning page on malware results since 2006. If you clicked through to a URL which was on their Safe Browsing Malware or Phishing Blacklists you would be served the following warning page:

Old Google Malware Warning Page

Although Google stopped you on your way to the target page, you were still presented with an option to ignore the warning and continue to the URL. However, their current interstitial page seems to have gone one step further and removed this option. As you see below:

Current Google Malware Warning Page

As you see from the screenshot above, the destination URL is now not active. The user is not presented with any link to continue onto the page and would have to physically copy and paste the address into their browser to continue. Of course, this might set off the same protection mechanism in the browser.

So live becomes even harder for those infected with malware or phishing exploits. Traffic would now be brought to an absolute stand still.

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