Swamppifi Posted November 2, 2014 Share Posted November 2, 2014 (edited) While I was using google today, trying out new seach strings, I was searching for SQL files accassable from the net. not trying to do anything out of line, just using google to find open stuff. Next thing I know , I been flagged, everytime I tried to use google, it redirected to a google page saying strange browsing activity was detected, please enter the below string to comfirm that I am not a robot, it had one of those catcha strings.....???? WTF.. i shut down and restarting the browser without comfiming the string, but straight away, redirected to this page. I have never had this happen before. when did this start? Edited November 2, 2014 by Swamppifi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THCMinister Posted November 2, 2014 Share Posted November 2, 2014 I remember having this happen at least 5 -6 years ago when I was in college. We were doing searches for sites that could have a possible SQL injection hole. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digininja Posted November 2, 2014 Share Posted November 2, 2014 Google has a system that tries to spot anomolies, most often it is caused by doing to many searches in to short a time, I get picked up for it when doing site recon for clients as I tend to search, refine the search then go again. They are basically tring to stop automation on the main web interface so they can push bots to their API instead. They do it at least based on IP address and maybe tie it to your google login if you have one. Either clear your cookies and change your external IP address or just wait a while, it clears down on its own soon enough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooper Posted November 2, 2014 Share Posted November 2, 2014 Actually, they're trying to prevent commercial products from using them without paying the fee. There are services out there that can, for instance, check if some dissertation or other scholary/academic paper has been plagiarised by simply googling for specific sentences from the text. Problem is that these programs need to perform a _LOT_ of searches in a short timeframe. Google doesn't mind you doing that, but you have to pay a fee for that which is apparently significant enough for those that make the software to find ingenious/illegal ways around the problem. When you see any form of anti-plagiarisation software, there's a 99% chance that underneath it's just a program that's calling Google and the only logic they add is in trying to find the best text snippet to google for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
i8igmac Posted November 2, 2014 Share Posted November 2, 2014 (edited) Lots of tools use a google dork search queries. Sqlmap fimap if you send request to fast you will be flagged, if you send to many in a short amount of time you will be flagged... You have to understand how many did you send? Also the length of time? Then you must slow your scanning down to evade there flagging algorithm... inurl:.php?PAGE=index.html send this query threw your browser 20 times in a row and see what happens... Let me know how many queries untill your flagged Edited November 2, 2014 by i8igmac Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swamppifi Posted November 3, 2014 Author Share Posted November 3, 2014 (edited) Thanks for the feedback guys, I am a bit relivied now I understand whats going on. I never had this happen to me before, I was in a bit of a panic about it, thinking I had done something wrong. I will be more careful in the future. Thanks Guys Edited November 3, 2014 by Swamppifi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biocow Posted November 4, 2014 Share Posted November 4, 2014 yes. Had this happen to me a few times. It usually drops off after a few hours. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silentbob Posted November 11, 2014 Share Posted November 11, 2014 yeah I got flagged after finding a program called the Renamer for TV Shows and movies, I guess ReNaming your hard drive of over 8000 items may cause a flag or 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr-Protocol Posted November 11, 2014 Share Posted November 11, 2014 yeah I got flagged after finding a program called the Renamer for TV Shows and movies, I guess ReNaming your hard drive of over 8000 items may cause a flag or 2 I'm not sure how using that would trigger Google to flag you for malicious activity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooper Posted November 11, 2014 Share Posted November 11, 2014 If you automatically on a per-item base google lookup something to give it a standardised filename, I can see that happening quite easily for a store of 8000 items. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smart-Aswood Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 Good for Google! Used to be, someone with an advanced degree in AI couldn't find a job outside a univeristy. Not anymore. Google and Amazon are snarfing them up and paying well. Them and Wall Street. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DataHead Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 And thus proxies are handy here for such reasons. I have to use scrapebox often enough, that if it weren't for me using my proxies, I'd be flagged for a thousand lifetimes lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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