Yandex Search found malware on your website

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I have quite a few websites and occasionally I get a message like this from Yandex. See message below.

I wonder if Yandex puts the virus on the website thus creating the problem and then offers a solution? I am not saying they do, and I hope not.

I replaced any identifiable information below with xxxxxxxxxxxxx so Yandex could not link this post to the real me.

If anyone has any wisdom regarding Yandex please post. I want to know what their intentions are.

Thank you.

======== The kind of message I get from Yandex below==========

Hi,

Some of the pages on your website may pose a threat to your visitor's computer security. The number of potentially harmful pages is 1. You can view the details of our malware scan at xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.net is either not infected or the virus has not yet been identified . To learn about how to find malicious code and delete it from your pages, please go to the help section http://help.yandex.com/webmaster/?id=xxxxxxxx of our free website management service Yandex.Webmaster Yandex.Webmaster.

Yandex is one of the world's leading search engines and a popular web portal (Yandex.Company). We continually check all websites in our search index using our own antivirus suite which integrates the signature and the behavioral approaches to malware detection. Read more about our antivirus technology at Yandex.Company.

This is an automated message to alert you about a problem detected on your website. This service free and does not require registration.

To receive additional information about your website, including the list of infected pages, or to request a check-up after the malicious code has been deleted, please register on our free website management service Yandex.Webmaster (Yandex.Webmaster).

Best regards,

Yandex Safe Search Team

If you are not the intended receipient of this message or if you do not wish to receive messages like this in the future, you can unsubscribe from our mailing list by clicking this link http://webmaster.yandex.com/subscrip...n=xxxxxxxxxxxx . To subscribe to our mailing list again, click this link http://webmaster.yandex.com/subscrip...xxxxxxxxxxxxxx .
  • Profile picture of the author Dennis Gaskill
    I don't know about Yandex, but Norton (Symantec) once flagged my site as unsafe because I was giving away an old style ebook ... you know, the .exe kind that required Internet Explorer to display. Somewhere along the way .exe ebooks have become false positives for viruses. So if you have a .exe ebook on your site it could be that.
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    • Profile picture of the author seasoned
      Originally Posted by Dennis Gaskill View Post

      I don't know about Yandex, but Norton (Symantec) once flagged my site as unsafe because I was giving away an old style ebook ... you know, the .exe kind that required Internet Explorer to display. Somewhere along the way .exe ebooks have become false positives for viruses. So if you have a .exe ebook on your site it could be that.
      Many old .exe books used code M/S suggested!!!!!!! MS, seeing the disaster they created, started trying to back down with XP SP2. Ever since then THIS problem occurred. It continues even TODAY! VISTA, WIN 7, etc.... have this "some annonymous program wants to do something, will you allow it?" WHAT A JOKE! But they do this to CTA!

      Steve
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