Thread: Warning - visiting this web site may harm your computer!

Warning - visiting this web site may harm your computer!

Have you ever had to deal with this message, when trying to access your website ? If yes, then you must have gone through all the information you can find in help center, trying to understand how to locate the badware in your site`s pages.

Well, few if the things you should do, if you get the above malware warning when accessing your websites are :

- check things with your hosting provider; they have some tools and are able to see if there are problems with the servers` security;

- check the source code of your website; install a powerful antivirus and antispyware to protect your computer, ignore the badware warning message and check out the code of the site; Javascript or unsual links ( hidden using CSS or other methods ), XSS injections and similar are few of the things you should look out for

- if you cannot locate any problems in your page source, make sure you are not voluntarily linking to a page that has badware problems; in the help center from Google you will find the "name" of your problem, give it a search and see if sites that you`re linking through are not affected ( simple site:url should show you enough )

- if you still cant find any problems, you can try and use SpyBye to check your website for badware; you can find more informations on how to use SpyBye right here, follow all the steps, test the website and see if you can use the results.

- if you are using an open source CMS, make sure you are at the latest release of this CMS. If you are using custom CMS, contact the person who developed it for you and ask it to test-run your website for badware, as he is the person knowing the system the best.

- if you are using open source CMS, update to the latest version, check the templates file to be clean

- request a review for the site, from the Webmaster Tools panel; if you have problems, you will see a message, with a brown background -> Parts of this site may be distributing malware. More Details; click on it and at the bottom of this message you will find the "request a review" link.

- as an ultimate solution, as your hosting provider to change the location of your files; just move them on another server and then follow the steps above again;

Hope this information will, at a certain point, help someone.

Thank you for sharing important information with each other. The security of the computer should be considered firstly. So users don't visit the webiste blindly to search for information . It is very good for their computers. And people should put the above into practice and protect their computers.

thanks for sharing this outstanding topic, i have lost a website due to this hack, but now due to your post i have a decent piece of idea how to tackle this sort of problems