How to Check If a Website is Hosting Malware?

[Ceres]

One way to check if a website is hosting malware is to use the Google Safe Browsing diagnostic page.

You'll need to replace "mysite.com" with the url you want to check. Google will then provide a malware status report for that website.

If you're checking your own site and learn that it has been injected with malware (unfortunately, it does happen ), then once you've removed the malware you should request a review of your site via Google Webmasters Tools.

Can anyone recommend similar tools that check for malware?

[RaghavK]

has happened to me before..contacted my webhost and sorted it out immediately..google was pretty quick to remove it from their list and my site was up and running (without malware) in no time..

[vikas1234]

Google has not visited this site within the past 90 days. Does it mean tat google has stopped crawling .. but when I check cache:mysite it shows last cached day as 4th july

[Ceres]

Google has not visited this site within the past 90 days. Does it mean tat google has stopped crawling .. but when I check cache:mysite it shows last cached day as 4th july

Hello vikas1234, Perhaps Google uses one spider to cache a website and another spider to search for malware? This is just a guess on my part - I don't know for sure...

[pubdomains.in]

There are plugins available from McAfee SiteAdvisor for IE and FF. You can get details from HERE

[Jeff]

Thanks for the link pubdomains.in!

In the middle of the right hand column, it looks like SiteAdvisor has a website check for hosted malware that is similar to Google Safe Browsing.