Google Problem "computer or network may be sending automated queries", what to do?

Hi,
yesterday google told me this message "...computer or network may be sending automated queries...." now I Installed OSX Lion, deleted Firefox, reinstalled it, but now I get this message again. By now Google's Chrome and Safari work fine and no message appears in google. What can I do? I'd like to use Firefox...
Thanks for your help
Max

I had never heard of such a message before, but a search turns up:
http://support.google.com/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=86640
It's unlikely that your Mac has malware that is causing this. It's possible that a Windows computer on your local network is infected with something. It's also possible that, if you're using a wireless network with no password that you have a "squatter" (a nearby neighbor) using your network, whose computer is infected. Lock down the network with WPA2 encryption using a good, strong password. If that's not it, note that the IP addresses used by most home networks are allocated from a pool of addresses, and may change at any time. So it's possible that someone who was infected with malware drew the attention of Google's algorithms, and then the IP addresses were reallocated and now you're using that IP address. You can try rebooting your cable or DSL modem, as that can give you a new IP address, if it's given a different one from the pool.

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