Google malware warning when trying to visit wedding florist

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by ThrobbingBrain66, Oct 8, 2008.

  1. ThrobbingBrain66

    ThrobbingBrain66 Private E-2

    My fiancee was trying to visit our wedding florist's website, when the following warning was displayed instead of the site:
    http://www.google.com/interstitial?url=http://www.thepetalsedge.com/Testimonials.html

    I have to admit I don't know much about this sort of thing, but does anyone know how accurate these tests are? It seems odd to me that anyone would try to infect a florist's website, but I suppose anything is possible.

    Visting the link to the diagnostic page shows 19 trojans and 7 exploits! If this is all accurate, "they" really hit that website hard. For now, I've told her not to visit the site until the warning goes away.

    Any other suggestions?

    Thanks,
    Brad
     
  2. buggabear

    buggabear MajorGeek

    Some people make it their business to infect whatever they can just because, no rhyme or reason. Since this is a business you have had contact with do them a favor and call them or send them a email explaining what message you are getting maybe their IT person can get their site back up and running virus free. they may not be aware of the problem.
     
  3. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    Hi

    This warning is real from Google and a good catch by their filters, as the below picture that I just took now from entering that page on a PC of mine shows that my AntiVirus software stopped a Trojan from installing.

    http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/9509/58334043kl1.jpg

    As the website looks like a homemade one and can easily be infected with malware as the webmasters are not always upto speed on webpage infections, as buggabear mentions do contact the company and let them know, but for now search for flowers at other sites.

    Sadly this one has a few multiple pages infected, some pages are ok, but its an unsafe site to surf, unless like me nuts! but I do run infected sites etc through a VM.


    (truncated the email address to curb email harvesters who use live email addresses posted on websites for sending spam)
     

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