Monday, April 19, 2010 at 8:53 AM
Webmaster Level: All
A little over six months ago we released a new malware diagnostic tool in Webmaster Tools with the help of Lucas Ballard from the anti-malware team. This feature has been a great success; many of you were interested to know if Google had detected malicious software in your site, and you used the tool's information to find and remove that malware and to fix the vulnerabilities in your servers.
Well, a few days ago we promoted the malware diagnostics tool from Labs to a full Webmaster Tools feature. You can now find it under the Diagnostics menu. Not only that, we also added support for malware notifications. As you may already know, if your site has malware we may show a warning message in our search results indicating that the site is potentially harmful. If this is the case, you should remove any dangerous content as soon as possible and patch the vulnerabilities in your server. After you've done that, you can request a malware review in order to have the warning for your site removed. What's new in our latest release is that the form to request a review is now right there with the rest of the malware data:
We've also made several other improvements under the covers. Now the data is updated almost four times faster than before. And we've improved our algorithms for identifying injected content and can pinpoint exploits that were difficult to catch when the feature first launched.
On the Webmaster Tools dashboard you'll still see a warning message when you have malware on one of your sites. This message has a link that will take you directly to the malware tool. Here at Google we take malware very seriously, and we're working on several improvements to this feature so that we can tell you ASAP if we detect that your site is potentially infected. Stay tuned!
For more details, check out the Malware & Hacked sites help forum.
8 comments:
Thanks for this informations
Very cool stuff. It's not easy as a small webmaster to keep your site clean and secure.
Thanks again for the tools!
Nice feature! I'm glad to see the Webmasters team is constantly working on updates for the tool.
Thanks for he useful information. This would be of great help... :)
Our site is hosted at Network Solutions, and a few days ago, we got blacklisted by Google because it said we were hit with Malware. I've contacted Network Solutions, and they assure me that everything is clean and nothing is infected. I've submitted to Google to remove the warnings on the search results, but they still appear. How long does it take to remove the warnings? How else can I contact Google to expedite this process, as we are a Healthcare facility, and patients need access to their medical records through our site? Please help ASAP
I had malware in the form of an iframe, I removed it but now I don't have that yellow box with a form to Request a review as shown in your screenshot.
How do I request a review without it?
we've been blocked now with unsafe malware message... our site links are pure HTML!!!! and has been the same for last 5 years+... NO MALWARE!!! so this doesn't appear to work properly.
http://www.traction-software.co.uk
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