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While searching for a specific keywords or just typing my domain name in google and after clicking on my site, it generates a warning named: "Malware Warning". Further they say:
"Warning - visiting this web site may harm your computer!
You can learn more about harmful web content and how to protect your computer at StopBadware.org.
Suggestions:
* Return to the previous page and pick another result.
* Try another search to find what you're looking for.
Or you can continue to xyz.com at your own risk.
Advisory provided by Google"
This is the warning i m getting from google since last 10 days. What does it mean? Does google have blocked my site?
How can i resolve this problem? I think this is very serious matter for me as mine is a shopping site.
Can anyone please guide me to solve this problem?
Thank you in advance.
Rahul
The message sounds like the type you get from Pc-cillin Internet Security or McAfee. These, and probably some other anti-badware software, don't just wait to see if you download a virus from the site; they are proactive and visit the site either by crawling or by visiting it an instant before you do (they get the URL from your browser). Then they label sites as ok or not ok so they can warn their users before they even get to the site.
You could look up your site here to see if this service has actually found anything bad on your site: [siteadvisor.com...]
If they have, note what it is. One cause could be that your site got hacked.
Some of these services are overly aggressive. PC-cillin used to give a warning something like "Warning: Spyware!" on any site that had advertiser links served by Commission Junction because they use tracking cookies.
if you do not find anything call them
or find a friend that runs PCC and call them
they are very good with cust svces
& no I do not work for them but use the product for years on all my machines :)
[edited by: alfaguru at 7:18 pm (utc) on Jan. 10, 2007]
The google search results will issue this warning if you attempt to to click through ..it will ask if you are sure as the site or page requested may contain malware or similar ..
I suggest that if your pages are clean ..that you email google and ask them why they think you are not ..
Wether you see these warnings in the normal course of events probably depends on the colour of your hat ;-)
HTH
Actually the site i m talking bout is mine. and i m receiving this since last 10 days. I gone through siteadvisor.com, but i dont think they might help me.
Further i m sure enough and can say that my site is not distributing any kindo badware or malware. and i have also mailed stopbadware.org regarding my issue.
But is there any other way to solve this problem quickly. I m losing my traffic and users daily.
Do you happen to be running anything on your site that's being called from another server, like some content or graphics? I've actually had a malware issue from simply clicking on a site that was from a GIF file - so nothing is impossible any more.
Secondly i have checked my folders on server side. There is nothing found like badware or malware.
So now wat should i do?
How about it, are you or not?
This could occur, Stopbadware.org wrote, if a site contains advertising from third parties that has links to other Web sites with malware. Also, an organization's Web server may have been hacked, or the site itself could have been hacked using a security exploit.
Hope that helps, good luck, your not the only one.
"We have no bad software or installs or anything that would indicate a need to ban people from viewing our site," wrote Matt Blatchley, who works for the Greenbush Southeast Kansas Education Service Center, in a posting on Friday to Google Groups.View the source and look at the bottom of the page. See the code that looks like
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">var k='(encoded gibberish)',t=0,h='';while(t<=k.length-1){
h=h+String.fromCharCode(k.charCodeAt(t++)-3);}document.write(h);</script>...I've checked out a quite a few "we don't have any malware" reports at this point, and I've yet to see a false positive -- the sites in question have each had some malware on them.
[mattcutts.com...]
He also mentions that Google will be working to help site owners better diagnose why their sites got a malware warning.
The principal message seems to be that even though YOU didn't place malware on your site, somebody else may have. Servers do get hacked (malware writers are often into hacking) and not every employee is on the level.
Any /subdirectory/ that doesn't have an index page should be protected against accessing, so that the "index" of files in it isn't visible - whether it's scripts, includes, or even graphics.
Let me correct what your hosting provider said about website security and scripts.
ANY software that doesn't checketh both high and low including but not limited to the very software that services the server software can be exploited.
Exploited software may lead to unwanted results up to and including the ability to control the server.
I’ve checked out a quite a few “we don’t have any malware” reports at this point, and I’ve yet to see a false positive — the sites in question have each had some malware on them. But this change is also relatively new, and we’ll keep working on ways to help site owners diagnose if their site has been hacked and is distributing malware.
Doesn't mean there'll never be a false positive, but I'd hesitate to dismiss it without thoro investigation - on a third party PC!
[edited by: Quadrille at 3:13 pm (utc) on Jan. 12, 2007]
as per your intructions I have mailed stopbadware.org and they have atlast replied back..and my site is back in google...:)
Thanks a lot again...
The message sounds like the type you get from Pc-cillin Internet Security or McAfee. These, and probably some other anti-badware software, don't just wait to see if you download a virus from the site; they are proactive and visit the site either by crawling or by visiting it an instant before you do (they get the URL from your browser). Then they label sites as ok or not ok so they can warn their users before they even get to the site.
Often libeling innocent sites (like mine) in the process. What they chiefly fail on is toolbar addons, which they often falsely identify as malware, but then tell the world the site is dangerous when it is not.
Matt
