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What do you do when you are a normal, clean site but Google tells people otherwise?
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from avi 1573 Days ago #
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that totally sucks man- go to webmaster central i would guess?

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from g1smd 1573 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?

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from shimsand 1573 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.

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from planetc1 1573 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?

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from shimsand 1573 Days ago #
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I use Wordpress.  Perhaps this is affecting a bunch of similar Wordpress themes?

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from jimbeetle 1573 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/

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from searchcommander 1571 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.

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from TimDineen 1571 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.

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from MattCutts 1571 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.

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from MattCutts 1571 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.

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from shimsand 1570 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.

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