UPDATED: I’m pleased to announce that this evening Google’s Webmasters Diagnostics has found Arkanoid’s site clear of any malware, and has removed all warnings.
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One of the best infectious disease news gatherers in Flublogia is Arkanoid Legent out of Malaysia, whose website normally sits prominently in my side bar.
This morning, visitors to this site with certain anti-virus software started getting warnings about potentially malicious code emanating from Arkanoid’s site. This prompted a good deal of back channel communications between me, Arkanoid, and fellow blogger Crof to try to figure out what had happened.
In short order it was determined that the problem did not to have anything to do Arkenoid’s page, but rather with a banner ad to another website (now removed) where some malicious code was apparently embedded.
Arkanoid has submitted his site for a security review to get the `attack site’ designation removed.
Until this matter is resolved, I’ve inactivated the link to Arkanoid’s site to avoid my visitors getting a warning pop-up, and to prevent the further maligning of an excellent website.
None of this should reflect negatively on Arkanoid’s site. He does a terrific job, and has simply been tarnished by someone else’s misdeeds.
I know how distressing all of this must be for Arkanoid, and I’m hoping that this can get put right as quickly as possible.
