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This is Luke Zimmermann from VOX Media, the parent company of The Verge and SB Nation. We've requested a formal review with Google after going to extreme steps to pull our advertising content to both do a thorough review and error on the side of caution that there wasn't anything malicious being inadvertently served up. At this time we're doing everything we can to get this on Google's radar and get it sorted out. We're continuing to monitor the situation as well and do everything in our power to make sure none of our readers and users are at any risk.

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Definitely check for any unusual included content and then request a malware review. I emailed the malware team to make sure that this is on their radar.

More info is at http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&... and by doing a [site:google.com malware review] search, but it looks like you've requested the malware review correctly. In the mean time, I'd just double-check for any way that malware could have been included/downloaded on the pages.

Just a quick note: the message is gone for me now, so it looks like the malware review went through with no problems.

You could get TheVerge unblocked right now: Move your stylesheets and other static files to a different CDN (not the sbnation domain).

If TheVerge can take it... just refer to the local addresses. Shove a Varnish instance in front to help if you fear for the web servers.

Unless you routinely serve up javascript from domains like 'dustym' on port 8888, then you apparently haven't done anything yet - it's still being included on www.theverge.com right now.

edit: thanks for the heads up, that was not the issue at hand.

If it helps or anything, this is what Chrome is reporting specifically to me: https://img.skitch.com/20120916-erdbdjn5w9dqp4rr8feu7f4ygm.j...

Might just be because they're on sbnation, but there ya go.

Do you pre-approve and scan every single new advertisement to make sure it doesn't contain malware?

Buying ads on large sites with lax controls is a very common and simple way to distribute trojans.

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