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 (this is a screen shot):

NUS Open House - bad for your computer

When you click on the link, you get the following Google warning:

NUS Open House - 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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Posted in Computers & Internet, Travel & Culture - February 5th, 2008.

6 Comments on “NUS Open House 2008 – it may harm your computer”

  1. Peter Says:
    10 Feb 2008 at 8:57 pm Link to this comment

    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?

  2. Jaz Says:
    15 Feb 2008 at 10:16 am Link to this comment

    how about try this link: joinus.sg/openhouse/ [link no longer available]

    =) hope you got the info you required. coz i i was facing the same problem too.

  3. zac Says:
    15 Feb 2008 at 3:00 pm Link to this comment

    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.

  4. Wee Peng Says:
    19 Feb 2008 at 10:53 am Link to this comment

    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 joinus.sg/openhouse (yes, it’s safe ;-) ). [link no longer available]

    If you have any more problems with the website, please email me at webmaster@nus.edu.sg. Thanks.

  5. zac Says:
    19 Feb 2008 at 11:30 am Link to this comment

    Hi Wee Peng and thanks for your update and for the information.

    As a matter of interest, why did the ‘badware’ warning sign appear?

  6. Wee Peng Says:
    19 Feb 2008 at 12:45 pm Link to this comment

    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 joinus.sg/openhouse a clean bill of health. [link no longer available] I intend to keep it that way :-)

    Thanks for bringing this issue to my attention, zac.

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