Site Audit 101: Does Your Site Have Malware?

by Rocky Fu on May 26, 2008

If a user perform a search in Google, he or she might see an alert from Google right between the subject line and description like this:

search results in Google

If you go ahead and click on the listing, you would not see the listed page but Google malware warning instead:

google malware warning image

You would believe me that more than 90% of users would abandon this website and try out another result. What is malware?

Malware is a type of software that attempts to steal your personal information or use your computer to do things that you do not intend. Malware pages are web pages containing malicious code that could be downloaded and installed on your computer without your consent.

To make sure your website is not listed as suspicious in Google, you can append your site to this URL “google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=”. Or, you can use this tool from Blogscoped.

If your site is listed as suspicious, you can use the above tool to find out what happened when Google visited. In addition, you can request a review of your site using Google Webmaster Tools after attempt to fix the problem.

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Internet Marketing Links for May 26 2008 from the Web Success Diva
May 27, 2008 at 5:53 am

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Web Success Diva May 27, 2008 at 4:38 am

Great tip! Thanks!
Maria :-)

sedencoumeped October 17, 2008 at 11:12 pm

You site very good and interesting . Thanks and sory
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