Sphinn - “This site may harm your computer.”

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Sphinn It!

Went Hot: October 24, 2007 - 3:46 am
Posted By: chriswinfield 622 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.shimonsandler.com)
Category: Google Other

What do you do when you are a normal, clean site but Google tells people otherwise?

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from avi 622 days ago #

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that totally sucks man- go to webmaster central i would guess?

from g1smd 622 days ago #

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Are you absolutely sure that hackers have not injected something somewhere into your site, or into any of the third-party adverts that you might be serving?

from shimsand 622 days ago #

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I just have some affiliate banners (cj, atlas, amazon, and adbrite) and YPN ads. Noting that should trigger a malware warning.

from planetc1 622 days ago #

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I've seen some joomla sites get hacked and injected with malware. Could it be happening on wordpress as well?

from shimsand 622 days ago #

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I use Wordpress. Perhaps this is affecting a bunch of similar Wordpress themes?

from jimbeetle 622 days ago #

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Here's the scoop from Matt Cutts on how to handle this:
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/info-about-malware-warnings-and-how-to-appeal-them/

And the background:
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/how-google-handles-malware-a-historical-overview/

from Jill 620 days ago #

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Once it's fixed, be sure you go through the process of having it rechecked by the stopbadware people so that Google will remove that note from your site.

from searchcommander 620 days ago #

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FYI, Shimons site was not (at the time) a "normal clean site" - and you can read in the post comments line for line what it did to my hosts file.

It was delivering the W32 Partriot virus - and yeah, I suspect it was a Wordpress hack. He gave me permission to blog it so i did, but with limited details.

from TimDineen 620 days ago #

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I still see the warning when I see Shimon's site in a SERP. It'll be interesting to see how quickly that'll be removed.

from MattCutts 620 days ago #

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The important thing is it sounds like Shimon has managed to restore from a backup, so odds are good that the malware is gone now.

from MattCutts 620 days ago #

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Shimon, I tried to leave a comment on your site, but it's not loading for me right now. I emailed the malware review team and asked them if there's anything they could do to help get your site reviewed now that it looks like the malware is gone.

from shimsand 619 days ago #

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Thanks Matt:-)
My guess is that the reason it wasn't loading is because I was moving it to another server.