![]() But the Google Safe Browsing service says deore-medias is not now suspicious - and we are!Īs you can see in Google's own diagnostics page, MadAdsMedia may have distributed an advertisement that linked to Here is Google's publicly viewable diagnostics page for It is now listed as not suspicious. The great irony is we are suspicious because we might have carried an ad from MadAdsMedia that linked to which at some point might have been hacked. Google hosts a publicly accessible website that shows the diagnosis of any security alerts it has posted. I've had no reports of any readers who have clicked on an ad from my website and been directed to a site that has harmed their computer.īy late Sunday night there could be no question that any potential risk, no matter how tiny, had been removed from my website. This article in techworm should explain the MadAds issue. Who appointed Google as the great decider of what suspicious software should be acted on an what shouldn't? Note that a competitor to Google, MadAds is in the frame here. But it is an example of Google's power and the damage that can be done by its misuse. ![]() This is not the result of any targetted attempt to discredit my website as large numbers of other si Google and I agree on that point.Ī site that a MadAdsMedia advertising server linked to had been compromised and there was potential for a MadAds advertising link to direct readers to a malicious software website. Malicious software was never distributed from my website. I was kept appraised of the process of that review via the Google Webmaster Tools program connected to By early Monday morning, all the warnings for the presence of suspicous software on my website had been removed on the Google Webmaster Tools service and the status advice for my site was changed to "We have not detected any security issues on your site". Late on Sunday night I requested Google urgently review the status of my website. Not me distributing Malware, not MadAds distributing Malware, but another step removed with a site called suspected of distributing Malware. I immediately removed all MadAds links from my website. Google Inc told me that the online advertising company had posted an advertisement that included a link to an advertiser whose servers had been hacked and who might have been distributing suspect software. On Sunday evening 9 February, I had reports from Google Analytics and the Google Webmaster Tools services. On Sunday, 9 February readers of our website reported that on entering the URL their screen displayed this image. I want to update you on Google's continuing intervention in our business.
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