Are you worried about stumbling onto a blog that contains Malware? Has someone told you that your blog is hosting Malware? Thanks to Google there is a tool that tells you if a site is hosting any suspicious files or if it has been picked up by Google as a malicious site.
To find out if a website has Malware simply go to http://google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=websiteurl and replace websiteurl with the name of the website or blog you wish to check.
Google will then answer four questions about the site.
What is the current listing status What happened when Google visited this site?
Has this site acted as an intermediary resulting in further distribution of malware?
Has this site hosted malware?
Here’s a screen shot of what Google returns if a site has malicious results.
If you do have badware, you can get information on removing badware from your website or host here:Hey Google I no longer have badware
I hope you found this post useful. I realize this isn’t something new, but I’m posting it for those of you who didn’t know about it.
Rose DesRochersRose wears many hats. She's a wife, mother, respite worker, proud shih-tzu owner, blogger, published poet, freelance writer, as well as the owner and administrator of Today's Writing Community and Blogger Talk Blog Community. Feel free to contact her with any questions you may have.Rose DesRochers has 1216 post(s) at Rose DesRochers – World Outside My Window
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Wrote: Feb 11, 2010 at 2:41 pm
Thanks Rose – didn’t actually know about that tool, very useful.
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Rose DesRochers Reply:
February 11th, 2010 at 8:24 pm
Thanks heather. That was thoughtful of you.
Wrote: Feb 11, 2010 at 8:54 pm
Thanks Rose, this is a very useful post. One of my sites did actually have a code injected into it my some malicious fiend and no matter what I did I couldn’t find it. In the end I just deleted the whole site.
That second link would have come in real handy.
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Rose DesRochers Reply:
February 11th, 2010 at 10:53 pm
Now you know for next time. Hopefully there won’t be a next time though.
Wrote: Feb 11, 2010 at 9:08 pm
I didn’t know about this. Thanks! I’ll have to check it out. I have never checked my blog for malware.
Short compact post with lots of good information. THANKS!!
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Rose DesRochers Reply:
February 13th, 2010 at 1:00 pm
Why thank you.
Wrote: Feb 11, 2010 at 9:11 pm
I join the others in saying I didn’t know about this tool.
I came up clean which was nice.
You certainly do know a lot about things. Have you ever thought of starting a blog,ha,ha..
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Rose DesRochers Reply:
February 11th, 2010 at 10:53 pm
I thought that’s what I was doing. lol
Wrote: Feb 11, 2010 at 10:12 pm
I didn’t know about this Malware thing.
I guess is time to check and do regular checks to make sure everything is alright.
Thank you for the information!
Raul
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Wrote: Feb 12, 2010 at 1:17 am
Oh! My breath just get easy. My site is ok. I hate malware and don’t want to see my site as a malware distributer.
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Wrote: Feb 12, 2010 at 2:27 am
I used this 4-5 month back to check iframe attacked blogs
Wrote: Feb 12, 2010 at 2:41 am
Hey, thanks for sharing this valuable information. I have immediately checked mine and thank God its negative.
Wrote: Feb 14, 2010 at 2:10 pm
I’ve been on blogs where my antivirus recognises the favicon as malware though the site is a creditable one. False positive I guess
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Rose DesRochers Reply:
February 15th, 2010 at 3:22 pm
I guess so.
Wrote: Feb 20, 2010 at 7:24 pm
I am totally going to check this out, Rose!!!
Thanks!