What's All This Brouhaha? » Malware https://whats.all.this.brouhaha.com miscellaneous musings and random rantings Fri, 01 Nov 2019 06:31:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9 Suboptimal search results — Google reports this blog “may harm your computer” https://whats.all.this.brouhaha.com/2008/04/24/suboptimal-search-results-google-reports-this-blog-may-harm-your-computer/ https://whats.all.this.brouhaha.com/2008/04/24/suboptimal-search-results-google-reports-this-blog-may-harm-your-computer/#comments Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:59:07 +0000 http://whats.all.this.brouhaha.com/?p=661 Continue reading →]]> Les brought to my attention that Google seems to think my blog hosts or links to malware, as shown here. I certainly don’t deliberately host any malware nor have any links to such, and a brief investigation doesn’t turn up any evidence that my site has been compromised, so I’m baffled as to what malware Google thinks is present.

Google says that I have to check with StopBadware.org, and StopBadware.org says that my site was reported to them by Google. That kind of finger-pointing is not very helpful for finding out what they think is wrong. If Google is going to report a site to StopBadware, then the Google Webmaster Tools should give the reason, rather than passing the buck.

The finger-pointing can be seen in two screenshots from Google and StopBadware.

Update 13-May-2008:  Chris Wright was kind enough to look at my sight and find the offending code, an iframe tag that had been injected into one blog post.  Once I removed that and requested a review again, Google removed the warning.  Thanks, Chris!

I’m still irritated that Google and StopBadware each claimed that the other reported the problem, rather than one of them admitting that they found it.

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