Safer Browsing
Google has recently allowed users to see why it may flag a site as “suspicious.”
The service will show any information Google has about potentially harmful websites, including sites that have been compromised and sites that host malicious programs or malware. This is good in two ways— first, users can take advantage of this service whenever they question a site’s legitimacy; and second, website administrators may be alerted if their site gets compromised without their knowledge and starts serving up harmful content.
Of course, this assumes the compromise results in something that catches the attention of the Google application.
Although this is FAR from a 100% reliable test to determine if a website is safe to visit, it does provide an extra layer of protection just in case.
Example:
http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=http://badsite.com
Just replace the value of the “site” variable with whatever website you want to check out.
I think its good that Google is allowing this— they have an enormous amount of information at their disposal. Offering some of it to help keep people away from malicious sites definitely fits their motto— “Don’t be evil.”