I don't think black-hat SEO is malware, at all. Their description ( http://www.avgthreatlabs.com/virus-and-malware-information/info/blackhat-seo/) seems incorrect. Here's a better definition: http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/B/Black_Hat_SEO.html . Black-hat SEO is targeted at search engines, so it has little to no impact (and certainly not harmful) for users.
Also, if you check the comments you'll see that someone got one of these warnings from browsing bing.com. So it looks like a bug in AVG. That said, the alert is probably triggered by a couple of script blocks that use document.write, which don't seem to be doing anything, so they might as well be removed. Cheers -- Mauricio On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 12:51 PM, Stephen Wicklund <[email protected]> wrote: > While navigating to the main site, castleproject.org, I got an AVG popup > saying it removed a "Blackhat SEO" exploit. > > Here's the info page the popup linked me to: > http://www.avgthreatlabs.com/website-safety-reports/domain/castleproject.org/linkreport/www.castleproject.org%252F/?utm_source=TDPU&utm_medium=OS > > It seems someone has injected the malicious code by some means into your > website, as the warning/malware-removed-popup shows up on each subpage as I > navigate to it. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Castle Project Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > . > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/castle-project-users. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Castle Project Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/castle-project-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
