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Avoid “This site may harm your computer” note in Google results

Steps to avoid “This site may harm your computer” note in Google Search Results:

  1. Clean your computer with any Good Antivirus software (NOD 32, Norton or Microsoft One)
  2. Change the FTP password of your website and other sensitive data
  3. Download the website and clean it antivirus and upload or reload the unaffected website from backup’s, if you are using any third party CMS, upgrade with the latest patches
  4. Check if any forms in your website is accepting special characters, if so disable special characters insertion, Examine your own PHP or ASP.NET code for security holes
  5. Change the FTP password after the upload
  6. Register at http://www.google.com/webmasters and submit your website for reconsideration
  7. Allow 24 to 48 hours to respond for your reconsideration request to Google

More information: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35843&hl=en