First Reported Google Malware Notification Via Email

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In February of this year I reported, Google Steps Up Web Page Malware Notifications at Search Engine Land, covering a Google Webmaster Central post that Google will be now emailing webmasters if they find their site is infected with malware.

Since then, I have never seen an actual report of a webmaster being emailed. That changed today. A DigitalPoint Forums thread has a webmaster who has said he received this email. Here is a copy of the email he received from "Google Search Quality [[email protected]]":

Dear site owner or webmaster of xxxxxxxxx.com,

We recently discovered that some of your pages can cause users to be infected with malicious software. We have begun showing a warning page to users who visit these pages by clicking a search result on Google.com. Below are some example URLs on your site which can cause users to be infected (space inserted to prevent accidental clicking in case your mail client auto-links URLs):

http://www.xxxxxxxxx .com/pm/xxxxx
http://www.xxxxxxxxx .com/in

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