On 31 October, Google mistakenly blocked access to certain users\u2019 files, including Google Docs.<\/p>\n
This was due to a bug that incorrectly flagged files as violating Google\u2019s terms of service.<\/p>\n
Google said<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0Google Docs and Drive products have automatic, preventive security precautions in place to protect its users from malware, phishing, and spam.<\/p>\n \u201cVirus and malware scanning is an industry best practice that performs automated comparisons against known samples and indicators,\u201d said Google.<\/p>\n The bug caused the Google Docs and Drive services to misinterpret the response from these protection systems, however, and erroneously mark some files as violations.<\/p>\n This caused access denials for users.<\/p>\n \u201cWe removed the bug and worked to restore access to all affected files,\u201d said Google.<\/p>\n Google explains what went wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":152157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[167,4552],"class_list":["post-235960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-google","tag-google-docs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235960"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":236000,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235960\/revisions\/236000"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read:\u00a0Google improves the way it gives local search results<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"