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@@ -919,28 +919,25 @@ Captcha or tells me I have spyware installed.</a></h3>

 <p>

 This is a known and intermittent problem; it does not mean that Google

-considers Tor to be spyware. Instead, Google tries to detect certain

-kinds of spyware or viruses that send distinctive queries to Google

-Search. It then notes the IP addresses from which those queries are

-received, and tries to warn the users of those IP addresses that it

-received queries indicating an infection.

+considers Tor to be spyware.

 </p>

 <p>

-When you use Tor, you are sending queries through exit nodes that are also

-shared by thousands of other users. If some of those users are infected

-with software that Google detects, Google may mistakenly conclude that

-the exit nodes themselves are infected (because the requests appeared

-to originate from the exit nodes) and, for a limited period of time,

-will try (incorrectly) to warn all Google users who share an exit node

-with an infected machine that they are themselves infected.

+When you use Tor, you are sending queries through exit relays that are also

+shared by thousands of other users. Tor users typically see this message

+when many Tor users are querying Google in a short period of time. Google

+interprets the high volume of traffic from a single IP address (the exit

+relay you happened to pick) as somebody trying to "crawl" their website,

+so it slows down traffic from that IP address for a short time.

 </p>

 <p>

-You may also get this sort of message when lots of Tor users are querying

-Google in a short period of time. Google interprets the high volume of

-traffic as somebody trying to "crawl" their website, so it slows down

-traffic from that IP address for a short time.

+An alternate explanation is that Google tries to detect certain

+kinds of spyware or viruses that send distinctive queries to Google

+Search. It notes the IP addresses from which those queries are received

+(not realizing that they are Tor exit relays), and tries to warn any

+connections coming from those IP addresses that recent queries indicate

+an infection.

 </p>

 <p>

@@ -950,11 +947,9 @@ should clear up again after a short time.

 </p>

 <p>

-If we think of a measure that would prevent users from seeing this sort of

-spurious warning message, we will certainly suggest it to Google and to

-other web site developers. There may also be technical workarounds for

-Tor end-users affected by this problem; if you find a useful workaround

-and write up a description of it, please let us know.

+Torbutton 1.2.5 (released in mid 2010) detects Google captchas and can

+automatically redirect you to a more Tor-friendly search engine such as

+Ixquick or Bing.

 </p>

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