''this site may be hacked''

Hi and thanks for highlighting this, I have pinged Tim/Jim to have a look at this.

 

We don't know but its BS. We have contacted Google. Last time it took months.

 

Looks as if one side of Google is not talking to the other.

 

Yeah we spent a bit of Sunday on this and have written them. Of course they pull this BS on a holiday weekend and getting Google to respond is ... well.. rare.

The link there says to go to your webmaster tools for and explanation and... There is none. Zero. Nada. Then there is no real place to reply to them. Eventually we hunted down maybe the correct mail.

We've been down this road before - last time it was a hacked Google ad that Google distributed over thousands of sites. We informed them and they blasted "hacked" warnings in the same manner. It took forever to clean that mess.

We could write a book on this stuff.

 

Cheers Jim for the update.

 

Some of the recent ads on the site seemed suspicious to me.

 

Google never gives a reason -- and sometimes sanity doesn't prevail. For example, for months they indicated to us that Cleanmem is a virus. http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/cleanmem.html It isn't and I sent them the virus total report. https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/...05e1a60d219f8aa38b33f701166925cdeea/analysis/ 2 scanners has it tagged -- ByteHero and TheHacker - both are known false positive meccas. Well, seems those are the ones Google uses because they wont remove it and won't say why.

So we are at an impass... We're right. They are wrong. They won't talk about it.

Hell - Last year we have a blogspot site copy almost our entire forum. It took 7 MONTHS for them to correct the problem. man, if Tim and I tried to pull that crap we'd be out of business in 7 days.

Oh - BTW Eldon, we are freaks about scanning. As near as we know we are the first download site to start virus scanning and quality testing everyone of our files -- going back 15 years. Tim has to reinstall windows weekly because of it.

 

So.... To give you an idea of what it is like to deal with Google. They accuse us of being hack with no explanation - very publicly. No real way to contact them. We spend countless hours doing research on the problem and find nothing.

I finally write through the webmaster tools interface that basically we have no idea what they are talking about and no place anywhere - including Google's own reporting - indicates anything of any issue at all. I asked to provide me proof of what they were accusing us of.

Today I get a note ...."Congratulations! Google has received and processed your malware review request. We did not detect any malware on your site."

But of course no mention of what started the whole mess... #donoharm, my a&&

I should get more pissed off, but this is the problem with "security" these days. Automated false positives rule the web.

 

Google is god in some folks eyes but are they?

"To google" for a search comment is that right, should the common phrase be "to search" over "to google it", great marketing to fool everyone to use the term "to search " as "google it"

They are not right in many searches, personally I prefer Bing or Clusty Clusty is awsome as it filters searches, to narrow down things.

 

They did. It was gone for a week and back again.