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Originally Posted by Midpack
That's interesting. Google (not Chrome) has blocked a local sailing site I visit for more than a week warning 'this site may harm your computer,' though Yahoo! breezes right through. And no users are having any problems with the local site? So it appears Google is "mistaken?"
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Google is pretty harsh about screening sites for "malware" links.
A couple weeks ago my blog host security contractor (Sitelock) sent me a stern warning e-mail that I'd have to take down their logo from my site if I did not immediately fix my malware problem.
Hunh?
It turned out that each of two websites that I linked to had links to other websites, and those other websites were linked to sites that downloaded malware.
In other words, in over a thousand sites that my blog links to, two of them linked to sites that linked to "bad" sites. And because of the potential danger of two third-degree-removed URLs, my Sitelock service (that I was paying for!) was about to kick me off.
A day later a live Sitelock human placed an actual telephone call to warn me of this all over again, and to say that Google would blacklist my site in a few days if I didn't "act now".
So I edited the links. Now my readers couldn't click through two other sites to download something that might cause problems.
I don't think Google is often mistaken, but they're certainly paranoid.