Website problem

[ohiofish]

A lot of people have been e-mailing me stating that when they go to my site, it is saying that the site may be harmful to your computer enter at your own risk. So I googled my site, and underneath the the site header, it did have the statemnet. Why is this happening and how can I fix it? My site is www.ohiofishingsource.com (http://www.ohiofishingsource.com)

[quickcrx702]

Are you running 3rd party ads on your site? If so it may be some of their content that is causing google to flag your site.

[spiderman]

Here is a link for more information on the problem:
http://safebrowsing.clients.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?client=Firefox&hl=en-US&site=http://www.ohiofishingsource.com/

Google has partnered with Firefox, IE does not show that message when you visit the site directly. If you search for the domain in Google it will show a warning.

[felgall]

It has nothing to do with Firefox.

Google display that message for any web site where they think they have detected malware.

[EricJ]

Google display that message for any web site where they think they have detected malware.

If you are using an older browser (FF 2.0ish or IE 6ish or anything around that time period).. it will not display this warning. however its good that they do it with the new browsers, because it will keep your faithful website visitors from getting viruses from your site..

you should look through your code and see if there is anything rogue in there.. If there IS something that you did not add in, you should restore from an earlier backup (you have backups right?).. IF you don't have backups, contact bluehost support, they might have one or two for you.. remember though -> if the date of the backup was AFTER the site was infected, the malware will Still remain. Also, the backups only Overwrite things, they do NOT delete then restore.. the best way to do the backup would be to rename your public_html to public_html.old, then restore your backup.. This way you can ensure that you have left zero possibility of a backdoor staying in your public_html folder..

Word of the Wise: if you contact support DO NOT nuke your site before you restore.. the nuke will delete your backups :P Rename of the public_html is much safer.

[MrDelish]

It has nothing to do with Firefox.

Google display that message for any web site where they think they have detected malware.

Firefox actually does do that when you reference the site directly - it's a separate page from the one Google displays beneath the title link ("This site may harm your computer"). See: http://media.photobucket.com/image/firefox%20get%20me%20out%20of%20here/manley620/firefox3beta5attack.jpg

Basically, that means that Google detected malware on your site and that message will pop up in newer versions of Firefox (3.0 and later) until Google rescans it and finds no more of it on your account. Keep an eye out for any HTML code that mentions an iframe, remove it, then upgrade/remove scripts as necessary.

[felgall]

Firefox actually does do that when you reference the site directly

The Firefox message has nothing to do with the Google one.

Google (and Firefox and IE if you enable the test in the browser) will each separately report on sites that they suspect contain malware. Each of the three does it separately with the difference being that Firefox and IE have an option to turn it off.