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Erroneous Phishing reports sent from G

Being reported as dangerous, phishing pages but no such pages here!

         

explorador

3:36 pm on Jun 17, 2010 (gmt 0)

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Hi webmasters, today I received two emails from Google (legit) reporting that two of my sites have pages reported as phishing. The same message appears on Google Webmasters Tools for each domain.

The thing is, G reports "www.example.com/~blabla/etc-page-blabla.html"

The page doesn't exist, no dir with that name, htaccess clean, I know the sign ~ its related to some server mapping but at least every single file on my account is clean. I already filled the report as a misunderstanding, false report.

I just received a mail from a friend telling me he has the same problem (same host). It occurs to me it might be a problem on the hosting service. The thing is, if you visit the page reported by Google, there is nothing there, nowhere.

Hope this is the right forum branch to share this

Sgt_Kickaxe

1:51 am on Jun 20, 2010 (gmt 0)



You might have more luck in the Google forum below or over on Google's own forums.

It's possible the page doesn't exist because Googlebot was redirected. If you haven't modified any files on your server in some time look at the file last modified dates for recent changes and inspect those files/pages for javascript (or other) content that doesn't belong.

There are a lot of how-to posts on this subject in other forums here, use the search feature for the ones you want.

lammert

4:16 pm on Jun 20, 2010 (gmt 0)

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Is it shared hosting?

With you and your friend infected with the same hosting company it could be that the central httpd.conf file of the host is infected. The /~blabla path can be inserted in all domains on a server with a one line Alias mapping in httpd.conf.

explorador

2:50 am on Jun 23, 2010 (gmt 0)

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thanks lammert, already reported