selomelo - 8:52 pm on Mar 15, 2007 (gmt 0)

Good News: Google removed the warning note.

WeirdCode & SteveWH:

Thank you for your insightful comments. Now, I am studying some papers on vulnerabilities involving php, as my site hosts a dictionary with some php code. However, I have a suspect. A free php script that I installed recently has an upload option for updating database. But this updating script is not password protected. I do not know if the coder delibrately left it as it is, but it might be culprit. So I deleted it.

As to Google's removal of the warning note: I applied to stopbadware.org for review. But my site's status is still "underetmined" at stopbadware.org. Meanwhile, Google recrawled my site the day before yesterday.

Right now, I see that Google removed the warning note with a fresh cache dated 13th March.

This may mean that after re-crawling and analysing the page, Google chose to remove the note, and did not wait for a report from stopbadware.org. This is really a good news for me, and may be a good news for anyone concerned.

As a side note, I see a rapid increase in the number of reported sites at stopbadware.org. On 12th Feb, the number of sites reported was around 25,900. Today, I read the number as above 27,300. This means that within just 3 days, around 1500 new sites were reported. This is really alarming.