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Google Chrome is detecting malware on The Verge

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Re: Google Chrome is detecting malware on The Verge

#11

What can a site Owner do in this situation? Does Google provide information on why a site is flagged?

I wrote this a while back after having Google flag my site as malicious. http://www.besttechie.com/2011/09/19/how-to-fix-site-google-...

Re: Google Chrome is detecting malware on The Verge

#14

What can a site Owner do in this situation? Does Google provide information on why a site is flagged?

The Safe Browsing diagnostic page is your best bet when this happens.

http://safebrowsing.clients.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnost...

Edit: Firefox provides these links in the form of a button labeled "Why was this page blocked?"

Re: Google Chrome is detecting malware on The Verge

#16
post #8

This is Luke Zimmermann from VOX Media, the parent company of The Verge and SB Nation. We've requested a formal review with Google after going to extreme steps to pull our advertising content to both do a thorough review and error on the side of caution that there wasn't anything malicious being inadvertently served up. At this time we're doing everything we can to get this on Google's radar and get it sorted out. We…

Unless you routinely serve up javascript from domains like 'dustym' on port 8888, then you apparently haven't done anything yet - it's still being included on www.theverge.com right now.

Re: Google Chrome is detecting malware on The Verge

#17
post #8

This is Luke Zimmermann from VOX Media, the parent company of The Verge and SB Nation. We've requested a formal review with Google after going to extreme steps to pull our advertising content to both do a thorough review and error on the side of caution that there wasn't anything malicious being inadvertently served up. At this time we're doing everything we can to get this on Google's radar and get it sorted out. We…

You could get TheVerge unblocked right now: Move your stylesheets and other static files to a different CDN (not the sbnation domain).

If TheVerge can take it... just refer to the local addresses. Shove a Varnish instance in front to help if you fear for the web servers.

Re: Google Chrome is detecting malware on The Verge

#18
post #8

This is Luke Zimmermann from VOX Media, the parent company of The Verge and SB Nation. We've requested a formal review with Google after going to extreme steps to pull our advertising content to both do a thorough review and error on the side of caution that there wasn't anything malicious being inadvertently served up. At this time we're doing everything we can to get this on Google's radar and get it sorted out. We…

Unless you routinely serve up javascript from domains like 'dustym' on port 8888, then you apparently haven't done anything yet - it's still being included on www.theverge.com right now.

edit: thanks for the heads up, that was not the issue at hand.

Re: Google Chrome is detecting malware on The Verge

#19

Already posted earlier http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4528963

Why would you link me to that? There is no discussion there that is of any value above what's in this thread (there are no comments). Please don't do that; I realize it was only a couple seconds of my life wasted (plus the 30 seconds to write this comment), but I would really appreciate it if this didn't become a trend.

Re: Google Chrome is detecting malware on The Verge

#20
post #8

This is Luke Zimmermann from VOX Media, the parent company of The Verge and SB Nation. We've requested a formal review with Google after going to extreme steps to pull our advertising content to both do a thorough review and error on the side of caution that there wasn't anything malicious being inadvertently served up. At this time we're doing everything we can to get this on Google's radar and get it sorted out. We…

If it helps or anything, this is what Chrome is reporting specifically to me: https://img.skitch.com/20120916-erdbdjn5w9dqp4rr8feu7f4ygm.j...

Might just be because they're on sbnation, but there ya go.

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