NUS Open House 2008 - it may harm your computer
Now this is rather embarrassing for the National University of Singapore (NUS).
I was looking for their 2008 Open House information and a Google of “nus open house” brought up the following result:
When you click on the link, you get the following Google warning:
I didn’t recognise the joinus.sg URL, so I didn’t try it. Is it a legitimate NUS site?
I still don’t know when the NUS Open House is…
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Peter said,
February 10, 2008 at 8:57 pm
Ha - how hopeless is that?
Educational institutions have pretty terrible websites. I suppose they teach web design - or maybe they don’t.
I wonder what “badware” was on the site?
Jaz said,
February 15, 2008 at 10:16 am
how about try this link : http://joinus.sg/openhouse/
=) hope you got the info you required. coz i i was facing the same problem too.
zac said,
February 15, 2008 at 3:00 pm
Hello Jaz. The link you gave is the one that Google has decided will “harm your computer.”
That’s the one that I did NOT want to follow.
Wee Peng said,
February 19, 2008 at 10:53 am
Dear zac and readers of this blog,
I’m Wee Peng, webmaster of NUS. We’ve worked with Google to clear the website. If you do a search for “nus open house” now, you won’t see the warning message anymore. So sorry for the confusion.
Some quick info about the Open House for those interested:
NUS Open House
Date: 15 March (Sat) to 16 March (Sun) 2008
Time: 9am – 6pm
Venue: Sports & Recreation Centre, Kent Ridge Campus
For more details, please visit http://joinus.sg/openhouse (yes, it’s safe ;-)).
If you have any more problems with the website, please email me at webmaster@nus.edu.sg. Thanks.
zac said,
February 19, 2008 at 11:30 am
Hi Wee Peng and thanks for your update and for the information.
As a matter of interest, why did the ‘badware’ warning sign appear?
Wee Peng said,
February 19, 2008 at 12:45 pm
Dear zac,
Google does not provide any detail report, so I can only deduce that the version which Google indexed in early Feb is dubious. I’m still checking.
But, the search giant has did a recent review and gave http://joinus.sg/openhouse a clean bill of health. I intend to keep it that way
Thanks for bringing this issue to my attention, zac.