koan - 2:57 am on Mar 14, 2007 (gmt 0)

Yes Google could have informed you first. OTOH, if not for that warning you'd still be injecting spyware onto people's computers. Bottom line is that they had to do your job for you. I'm not hearing that gratitude.

I got a vicious trojan once because I visited an infected site, which took me days to finally remove. I agree with you, webmasters shouldn't be whining about losing ranking on Google because they weren't notified and the world didn't stop to make sure their feelings weren't hurt. It's up to webmasters to have secure web sites and be vigilant about it. They should be more worried about the hundreds of computers they infected rather than their precious little web sites getting a bad rep.