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"this site may harm your computer" in google search results

Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 4:51 pm
by Luke
So I decided to search for "Miva SMT" today on Google and my surprise my website was ranked #1. To my even greater surprise, below the link to my site there is another link that says "this site may harm your computer". When I attempted to click on my website link, I was sent to a page explaining that the site I was attempting to visit is suspected of distributing "badware" by StopBadWare.org. So I went to StopBadWare.org to see what the hell the issue was... and I found out that I can submit my site for review if I think there has been an error. First I must find my site in their database though. So I search their database and it can't find my site. So what the hell? :banghead:

I've searched my site up and down for possible exploits or places where somebody was able to place "badware" on my site. Can't find anything. This is really lame. Anybody have experience with this garbage?

Re: "this site may harm your computer" in google search results

Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 6:21 pm
by RobertGonzalez
Have you read this -> http://www.google.com/support/webmaster ... swer=45432

it might help you.

Re: "this site may harm your computer" in google search results

Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 7:03 pm
by Josh1billion
Very odd.. I'd take a look at your site and see if I noticed anything bad, but Google says your site is dangerous and I just don't trust you...

Just kidding of course. :P

Looks like just a regular blog to me. I don't see why Google would think your site is "distributing malicious software"... hmm. I imagine it would likely be due to some sort of Javascript. I noticed you have a few Javascript scripts on the page, could any of those be misinterpreted as malicious if a bot were to glance at them?

Re: "this site may harm your computer" in google search results

Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 4:20 am
by Jenk
Seems clear now.

Re: "this site may harm your computer" in google search results

Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 3:27 pm
by John Cartwright
Jenk wrote:Seems clear now.
This site may harm your computer.
I still see it

Re: "this site may harm your computer" in google search results

Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 4:03 pm
by RobertGonzalez
From here I am able to locate your site in the clearinghouse using the search term mc2design.com/blog/. I am actually at the page to handle the request right now.

Re: "this site may harm your computer" in google search results

Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 4:19 pm
by Luke
I found the issue. Somebody was able to embed an iframe into my site somehow (probably through a wordpress vulnerability) and it was serving something from wp-stats.info. I have upgraded wordpress and submitted a request for review to StopBadWare.org. Thanks for all your help guys.