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Beware of Badware on Your Site
Filed under SecurityJun 10These days it is very important to check anything for its illegitimacy that you going to put on your website. It may be a software, a script or giving a link to any website. You should be more careful if you are using free or open source stuffs. It is the major source of spyware, virus or as a whole badware. You may not even know that you have been affected. I was carefree about this until I found on Google search that visiting to this site “www.technewsbeats.com” may be harmful.
It was quite a shocker as I was not trying to install automatically any software on any of my user’s system and to the best of my knowledge there is no software or script on the webspace for this site. So for further checking, I logged into Google Webmaster Tool. There I found the news that I may be having badware on my site or my site may be linking to sites which may be spreading badware. Indeed bad news for a new site! Following this I quickly did a search of my site using bad-neighborhood.com and found 2 bad neighborhood sites. One was a link from one of my post and the other was the link on the free template I was using. First I checked the link from that of the post, but the domain had a good listing on Google and did not look too bad. Then my attention went to the free template link which I was using for my home page. Making no delay, I removed the link. Then when reloading the site I noticed it is downloading something else too apart from the regular features. I noticed this before but did not gave any heed to it thinking it may be a part of the template. Accordingly, I downloaded the template from the webspace and checked the codes. To my amazement, there was a Java script, which did not looked like had to do anything with the template. Also, there were some junk codes. Swiftly, I removed all those codes and reloaded the template page to see if it is working. It was working, while confirming my thought that these codes had nothing to do with the actual templates. So here was the Badware, which got my site the harmful tag and I did not event knew about it.
So all webmaster, particularly amateur site builders and bloggers, be very careful when you are using free blog themes or websites templates. As this may come in-built with Spyware/Badware and you may not even know until you get into trouble. Check all the links with bad-neighborhood.com to check for any potential problem. If you are giving any software for download, check Google’s Software Download Guidelines. After you believe that you have cleaned your site to the best of you knowledge, then request a review via Google’s webmaster Tool. You can also do so via stopbadware.org. I have filed via stopbadware.org as they claim to test your site and tell where the issue was along it forwarding to Google for a re-scan. Now keeping my fingers crossed – hoping the notice will be taken off quickly.
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