Internet Archive Above: An Internet Archive screenshot of one of the scam websites, presumably with the main image missing. From Malwarebytes in March: a Semrush impersonation scam has hit Google ads. While I would never side with bad actors, it is difficult to sympathize with a brand like Semrush after the nine months of […]
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When we put our sites on a new server last year, one Wordpress plug-in we retained, despite a known exploit, was Yuzo Related Posts. Basically, nothing else could do related posts as well. It just worked. Everything else, inexplicably, either did not do post relationships terribly well, was too resource-heavy, or was too ugly, Fortunately, […]
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Yesterday, I received an email purporting to be from Facebook, with the body reading: Hi, We are obliged to inform you that your page has been flagged because of unusual and illegal activity, therefore your page might be permanently deleted. In order to avoid such actions from our side, you need to fill the forms […]
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I’ve done this a few times now: looked through my year’s Tumblr posts to get an alternative feel for the Zeitgeist. Tumblr is where I put the less relevant junk that comes by my digital meanderings. But as I scrolled down to January 2015 in the archive, I’m not that certain the posts really reflected […]
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Does anyone have the rivers.pro tagcloud code in their Tumblr theme? If so, it’s time to remove it. The code forwards to a website which McAfee SiteAdvisor labels dodgy. It is very hard to remove from a customized theme, since every time the page loads, the forwarding takes place. You’ll have to find a way […]
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One last post on this topic for now, since this entry is pertinent for a complete picture of what is happening with the Google malware bot. Let’s just say for argument’s sake that I’m wrong, and the combined minds of the Google hive are right. An entire company of boffins must be smarter than […]
Read More… from Someone has it worse: a site, clean since April 7, that Google still blocks
Not a political post, sorry. This one follows up from the Google boycott earlier this month and is further proof of how the house of G gets it very, very wrong when it comes to malware warnings. As those who followed this case know, our ad server was hacked on April 6 but both […]
Read More… from Putting back allegedly “malicious” code: has Google caught up with reality?
No matter how bad you think you’ve got it, some poor bugger has it worse. One webmaster, Steven Don, has had Google claim that he has anywhere between nine and fourteen trojans on his website, but he has none. The Google Safe Browsing page claims nine trojans presently, but can’t say which domains he […]
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The Google experience over the last week—and I can say ‘week’ because there were still a few browsers showing blocks yesterday—reminds me of how brands can be resilient. First, I know it’s hard for most people to believe that Google is so incompetent—or even downright corrupt, when it came to its bypassing Safari users’ […]
Here’s Google’s Webmaster Tools this morning. Apparently, now it says there has been nothing wrong at the Lucire website since April 6. Which is what we’ve been saying for six days. Gee, we all must have imagined those attack warnings for the last six days. Google’s record now shows they never happened. As it’s Google, […]