Well before shifting over to wordpress, I was and still am quite active on the blogger platform. Recently when I checked one of my blogs, it showed me that all the pages of my blog had been reported as an attack page! As far as I know Google’s blogger servers should be pretty safe and hacker-proof and I haven’t intentionally placed any malicious code on my own.

I clicked on the ‘Why was this page blocked?’ button in the ‘Reported Attack Page’ in Firefox, and came upto the Google safe browsing Diagnostic page. And now I quote from that page as to the reason why my blog was blocked:

Of the 181 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 134 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. The last time Google visited this site was on 2010-05-25, and the last time suspicious content was found on this site was on 2010-05-25.

Malicious software is hosted on 1 domain(s), including manilis.com/.

1 domain(s) appear to be functioning as intermediaries for distributing malware to visitors of this site, including bidvertiser.com/.

Oh boy, yeah, bidvertiser! I had put on two ad blocks of advertiser, less than a month ago.

Sure enough, I logged into my Google Webmaster Tools and checked the blog out. Yup there was that glum yet dangerous warning : ‘This site may be distributing malware. More Details ‘

In the details section of each and every page was the same text:

What the hell? Malware? Earlier users were clearly unhappy with their tracking, review and certain black hat SEO methods.And now malware? As a result of the site being ‘closed down’, I’m already losing thousands of visitors and not to mention the revenue.

In what I could make out is that advertisers using the bidvertiser are somehow ‘advertising’ malware, which could be the result of the bidvertiser guys not having a proper advertisement-review policy in place.

As you might have guessed, I’ve already removed their advertisements from my site and am just about to close down my bidvertiser account. Don’t want to take anymore chances. Nuh, their not getting a share of my money no more!

Below I am attaching the Google safe browsing Diagnostic page of both my blog as well as that of bidvertiser.com. Check it out and I think you might have a clearer idea.  Note that for personal reasons  I am not divulging the name of the blog which was blocked.

Google safe browsing Diagnostic page of my blog

Google safe browsing Diagnostic page of Bidvertiser.com

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