Opera = virus or spyware?

    Date: 01/04/07 (Opera Browser)    Keywords: html, virus, spyware, google

    If I do a Google search by typing g whatever in the Opera address bar, I'm now getting a 403 Forbidden response, with an apology page:

    We're sorry...

    ... but your query looks similar to automated requests from a computer virus or spyware application. To protect our users, we can't process your request right now.
    Then there's a captcha - "To continue searching, please type the characters you see below:"

    I'm reasonably sure that the problem isn't a virus or spyware, but Google being suspicious of the Opera searches, so... Yuk!

    Is this happening to anyone else?

    Update: This seems to be related to where Google sees your request originating, and not anything to do with Opera. Apologies. It seems that Google has been doing this for quite a while. More info: http://www.spy.org.uk/spyblog/2005/06/stupid_google_virusspyware_cap.html

    Source: http://community.livejournal.com/opera_browser/63728.html

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