Google Search Quality Team say my site was compromised

Not quite sure what this means (sorry;)but when I upgraded to 2.5.1. the database was cleaned and rebuilt. Will that do it?

Mandeville,Google can’t possibly be picking on your post out of all the other anti-Googleness on the web. Relax on that score.

You can read about the Slammer Worm here. Note this sentence:

If a selected address happens to belong to a host that is running an unpatched copy of Microsoft SQL Server Resolution Service, the host immediately becomes infected and begins spraying the Internet with more copies of the worm program.

I think you need to talk to your host about this problem, as it sounds like your host caused the problem.

And any time your site is hacked or exploited, you should notify your host, because it needs to take steps to protect other sites on your shared server.

And good for you for not giving up!

Rosie,
Thanks for your interest. Following your advice, I have notified my host and provided them with a copy of the Trend Micro report. Interesting to hear what they say.

OK, ok – I looked up your link to “anti-Googleness” ?? quite amusing, we didn’t go that far – easy to get paranoid when this sort of thing happens to you for the first time.

As far as not giving up – well, that is largely due to the kind help and support of people like you and the others who have given up valuable time to read my posts and offer help.

Have a great day,
James

Update:

My hosting co. say this is nothing to do with my MYSQL database which runs on a Linux Server – the warnings received from Trend referred to Microsoft Desk Engine.

I have applied to Google to have the site unblocked ?? We will just have to see what happens!!

So? What happened?

I see that Google is listing your pages.

Also, I get no warnings in visiting your site from Kasperky Anti-Virus, which is a pretty strong antivirus program (see May 2007 tests).

Hello DianeV,

Thanks for the interest.

Well from my side a lot is happening, from Google’s side zero.

For a start, I decided to learn something about WordPress and read ALL the documentation this time before I started again with WordPress. I read up a bit on coding and managed to intall a menu bar with help from Thomas Natter (Drikatruu Jelly template designer).

I deleted my old installation and installed 2.5.1 with the automatic upgrade plugin this time! I deleted MYSQL and started with a new database because I found the old one had been hacked into as well as the wp-admin folder. My web hosting company deny this is possible, but none-the-less it happened.

I decided to republish my previous posts, so I’m please with that because I use the BLOG as an info page for new writers. They can access these new pages now from my website fine.

So, some progress, except Google are still blocking specific old posts – although on WebMaster tools it does say that they can take several weeks to process a review request. This is annoying, but only affects people who find these pages through Google search. On other portals you get the missing 404 error (because I deleted most of them). I have just requested that Google remove all the old BLOG pages that now return error 404. This may help to clean things up.

Technorati and Pingoat are now accepting my pings, they didn’t when Google first blacked the site.

That’s where I’m at with all this.

Update
Google removed the site warning today!

Now I just have to wait for the search engines to find my BLOG again ??

So, this is over – finally. Thanks to everyone for your good help.

Really has been appreciated.

James

Glad everything’s been resolved!