Purpleslinky Listed as “suspicious” by Google
What is going on? I look at pages from Purpleslinky regularly and now my advice is that the site has been listed as suspicious by Google!! No smoke without fire – or is there?
Over the past eighteen months exploring the online writing world I owe my start to TRIOND, however, my main area of activity over the past six months has been over at BUKISA and the excellent REDGAGE. At all these sites I keep an eye on security whilst blogging, picture sharing and writing.
Imagine my shock when my online security warned me against viewing Purpleslinky this morning!! I have a 4GB Dell lap top with Windows 7, using Firefox with its inbuild browsing security and Norton for overall protection. Take a look at the screen print I was faced with today:
Okay, I’m happy to believe that this is over zealous security, but my advice to Triond and the “Head of Purpleslinky” is sort it out!! Google visited yesterday and were not happy. They have found 26 pages that resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent in the past 90 days.
What are the options? “Nothing to worry about”, “writers being malicious”, “Triond being malicious”, “Google over reacting”, “everyday occurrence so calm down” OR “hackers”. Whichever, please add your feedback and let’s keep Triond the place we know and love.
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September 9th, 2010 at 7:47 pm
This issue is resolved now, thanks for sharing
September 9th, 2010 at 8:41 pm
Thanks for letting us know – I thought it was just my computer acting up.
September 9th, 2010 at 11:32 pm
I think the issue is resolved now. Check out Triond’s blog.
September 9th, 2010 at 11:45 pm
Thanks for sharing and good to know it’s been resolved.
September 10th, 2010 at 3:57 am
yes, it’s been resolved!! The article took 48 hours to publish although it was intended to be a “news” story (not knowing the outcome) – now the struggle is to make sure readers come back
September 10th, 2010 at 9:15 am
Actually it was ALL triond sites, in the forum there were many threads about this and at Trionds “getsatisfaction” page there was a massive thread.
when you have problems the forum is the first place to go to check to see if it is just you, your computer, or Triond itself
September 16th, 2010 at 11:27 pm
thank you bringing it to our attention, best wishes!
September 20th, 2010 at 9:57 pm
Good reporting, I recieved a message about the hackers when I logged in at Triond today. They are suppose to have it fixed.
P.S. It’s great to see a RedGage friend here
September 23rd, 2010 at 6:51 am
I hope it won’t happen again
October 8th, 2010 at 4:49 am
Yeah Unfortunate incident…but i hope triond’s back to its usual self.
October 15th, 2010 at 7:18 am
Nice share my friend.
You’ve made a great piece!
Sincerely Yours,
Ishinimrod
Signed
October 19th, 2010 at 7:09 pm
That was really annoying. Hope that malware problem don’t happen again. Good post.
October 28th, 2010 at 1:27 pm
Thanx for the info, I constantly check for viruses, malware, and delete the cookies regularly.
Great article
October 28th, 2010 at 9:58 pm
LOL i burst out laughing spilling my coffee all over my laptop. Nice article
November 21st, 2010 at 2:55 pm
Your article is good.
November 30th, 2010 at 8:34 pm
Well, it’s always something. I had the same warning about webupon.
January 14th, 2011 at 1:44 am
It’s good to know the problem with PurpleSlinky has ben fixed. It would do wellf or Triond to work well with Google.
January 17th, 2011 at 12:26 pm
Good to know the problem is resolved.
February 13th, 2011 at 11:06 pm
Interesting, never knew about this problem. Thanks for writing about it
December 15th, 2011 at 2:39 am
The site is okay now. Even Writinghood had that problem with google before but is now okay too.,