2009 February 09 — HighTechDad HighTechDad

A few months ago, I got an email from a family member that told me that when they visited my blog, they received a “malicious software” warning. I found this very odd, since I visit my own blog fairly regularly and hadn’t noticed anything out of the ordinary. I found out that the issue only appeared with Safari for the Mac. The thing is, I rarely used, Safari on my Mac since my default cross-platform browser is Firefox. So I fired up Safari, and sure enough, I was greeted with the following warning:

My website contains “malware” or “malicious software”??? HUH?!! WHAT!!! The whole idea of my blog is to HELP people get out of computer issues, not cause them. So, of course, I panicked. Clicking through the only link on the warning page (which happened to be “ssl-google-analytics.com“) gave me the following information:

I found this very odd since while I was indeed running Google Analytics code, the domain that was showing in the warning looked a bit strange. So I followed the link at the bottom and requested a review of my site using the Google Webmaster Tools. Note that the site in question was not my domain.Â The review of the site is a process that can take several weeks so I submitted and assumed that it had occurred and all had been taken care of.

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