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1 Jan 04, 2008 08:10    

My b2evolution Version: Not Entered

Just tried to activate my adsense account again, I get this message about my site"
Googlebot last successfully accessed your home page on Dec 31, 2007.
Index status: This site may be distributing badware, as determined by StopBadware.org's guidelines for websites. Google searchers will see a warning page when they attempt to visit pages within this site that have been flagged as containing badware. [?]
Warning page searchers will see: http://www.google.com/interstitial?url=http://www.arcadeheaven.com/&hl=en
Sample URLs that violate the guidelines:
http://www.arcadeheaven.com/
http://www.arcadeheaven.com/index.php?start_from=50&ucat=&archive=&subaction=&id=
http://www.arcadeheaven.com/index.php?start_from=90&ucat=&archive=&subaction=&id=
http://www.arcadeheaven.com/index.php?start_from=30&ucat=&archive=&subaction=&id=&;
http://www.arcadeheaven.com/index.php?start_from=40&ucat=&archive=&subaction=&id=&;
http://www.arcadeheaven.com/index.php?start_from=80&ucat=&archive=&subaction=&id=&;
http://www.arcadeheaven.com/index.php?start_from=100&ucat=&archive=&subaction=&id=&;
http://www.arcadeheaven.com/index.php?start_from=120&ucat=&archive=&subaction=&id=&;
http://www.arcadeheaven.com/index.php?start_from=130&ucat=&archive=&subaction=&id=&;
http://www.arcadeheaven.com/index.php?start_from=140&ucat=&archive=&subaction=&id=&;
http://www.arcadeheaven.com/index.php?start_from=150&ucat=&archive=&subaction=&id=&;
http://www.arcadeheaven.com/index.php?start_from=160&ucat=&archive=&subaction=&id=&;
http://www.arcadeheaven.com/index.php?subaction=showcomments&id=1149245307&archive=&start_from=&ucat=1&;
http://www.arcadeheaven.com/index.php?subaction=showcomments&id=1173947812&archive=&start_from=&ucat=6&;
http://www.arcadeheaven.com/index.php?subaction=showcomments&id=1175418682&archive=&start_from=&ucat=6&;
http://www.arcadeheaven.com/index.php?subaction=showcomments&id=1177113464&archive=&start_from=&ucat=6&;
Please review the guidelines and make any necessary changes to your site according to StopBadware.org's Security Tips for Websites. When you have cleaned your site, you can request a review, and we'll evaluate your site.

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All of those supposed bad links are from b2evolution stories I have posted in my blog.

Anyone else had this problem, TIA.

2 Jan 04, 2008 13:58

The first thing is missed css file. You don't need this string in /skins/_html_header.inc.php

<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://www.arcadeheaven.com/media/blogs/arhblog/style.css" type="text/css" />

Please, comment or delete it from there and check the status.

3 Jan 04, 2008 14:03

The HEAD section must be like this


<head>
	<?php skin_content_meta(); /* Charset for static pages */ ?>
	<?php skin_base_tag(); /* Base URL for this skin. You need this to fix relative links! */ ?>
	<?php $Plugins->trigger_event( 'SkinBeginHtmlHead' ); ?>
	<title><?php
		// ------------------------- TITLE FOR THE CURRENT REQUEST -------------------------
		request_title( array(
			'auto_pilot'      => 'seo_title',
		) );
		// ------------------------------ END OF REQUEST TITLE -----------------------------
	?></title>
	<meta name="description" content="<?php $Blog->disp( 'shortdesc', 'htmlattr' ); ?>" />
	<meta name="keywords" content="<?php $Blog->disp( 'keywords', 'htmlattr' ); ?>" />
	<?php robots_tag(); ?>
	<meta name="generator" content="b2evolution <?php app_version(); ?>" /> <!-- Please leave this for stats -->
	<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS 2.0" href="<?php $Blog->disp( 'rss2_url', 'raw' ) ?>" />
	<link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="Atom" href="<?php $Blog->disp( 'atom_url', 'raw' ) ?>" />
	<link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" type="text/css" />
	<?php include_headlines() /* Add javascript and css files included by plugins and skin */ ?>
	<?php
		$Blog->disp( 'blog_css', 'raw');
		$Blog->disp( 'user_css', 'raw');
	?>
</head>

4 Jan 04, 2008 19:47

I don't think the stylesheet is the root cause here. It looks like you've enabled one of the "other stylesheet" options on your blog setting?

I'm seeing two things that are quite odd about most of the URLs you linked. First, they contain parameters that aren't part of b2evolution. Second, they contain empty parameters. Here are two samples pulled from the middle:


http://www.arcadeheaven.com/index.php?start_from=160&ucat=&archive=&subaction=&id=& 
http://www.arcadeheaven.com/index.php?subaction=showcomments&id=1149245307&archive=&start_from=&ucat=1& 

Um... on January first you have a post that says you were hacked. I'm kinda thinking maybe that's part of the problem? I'm also kinda thinking "stopbadware" is crap, but that's not going to help you. Here's the deal: the links you posted are not findable on your page. I didn't view source, so it's possible they're "in the source but hidden from view". Problem with that theory is *why* would that be? I mean: they're pointless links. They go right back to your main page.

So perhaps those nice folk at stopbadware have deemed you bad for something that went wrong when your site was hacked? Dunno, but if I was you I'd be trying to deal with the sbw people.

5 Jan 06, 2008 10:20

I was hacked before I installed b2evolution, I cleaned my main directory out.

I had trouble with the install because I didn't have the sql password right and it wouldn't continue, I deleted some files and uploaded them again, maybe something messed up there. I will wait for a new release and install over the top of it.

I have a second .css in the skin user directory because I was attempting to fix the fact that my title and tagline don't line up for me, see another thread I posted.

I'll blame most of it on a failed install and my incompetance and wait for a new version to see if that fixes the problems.

6 Jan 06, 2008 14:37

If you didn't solve the hack problem, it 'll tend to reoccur.
On the other hand if you did solve the problem, you can simply delete the folder where the bog is and upload a fresh copy of B2evo. The database is not affected by any hack, so you can simply continue where you left.

The database connection info is in /blogs/conf/_basic_conf.php
You may want to backup especially the /media/ folder if you uploaded pics and the /skins/ folder to remember yourself to the changes you made to the skin.

Good luck


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