rakeshsankar.wordpress.com has been reported as malware

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  rakeshsankar · Member · Jun 5, 2013 at 10:21 am

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  Hello There,

  I received the below email from webhostingsearch.com reporting that some of the links (pages) on my wordpress website contains malware contents and they are suggesting Google to remove my website from their index which is BAD. This must be coming from the ads that are displayed under each blog post and as far as I know these are ads are controlled by WordPress.com and not by me, hence the request.

  Please take a necessary immediate action to filter out such contents of my blog and send me an acknowledgement.

  Email Content:
  I’m Brian with WebHostingSearch.com.

  We recently received an unnatural link warning from Google and are
  currently in the process of removing a lot of links to our website.

  Your website currently links to us and we would sincerely appreciate if you
  would consider removing the link(s). We’re not saying that they’re
  necessarily bad, but we have to be 100% certain that we comply with
  Google’s guidelines and so we err on the side of caution.

  Example(s):

  http://rakesh.sankar-b.com/tag/xml/
  http://rakesh.sankar-b.com/tag/user/
  http://rakesh.sankar-b.com/tag/ssh-2/
  http://rakesh.sankar-b.com/tag/server/
  http://rakesh.sankar-b.com/tag/security/
  http://rakesh.sankar-b.com/tag/phpmyadmin/
  http://rakesh.sankar-b.com/tag/php-2/
  http://rakesh.sankar-b.com/tag/mysql/
  http://rakesh.sankar-b.com/tag/mail/
  http://rakesh.sankar-b.com/tag/linux-2/
  http://rakesh.sankar-b.com/tag/lenny/
  http://rakesh.sankar-b.com/tag/installation-2/
  http://rakesh.sankar-b.com/tag/error/
  http://rakesh.sankar-b.com/tag/debian-2/
  http://rakesh.sankar-b.com/tag/aptitude/
  http://rakesh.sankar-b.com/tag/apache/
  http://rakesh.sankar-b.com/page/2/
  http://rakesh.sankar-b.com/category/tips/
  http://rakesh.sankar-b.com/category/subversion/
  http://rakesh.sankar-b.com/category/php/
  http://rakesh.sankar-b.com/category/linux/ssh/
  http://rakesh.sankar-b.com/category/linux/debian/
  http://rakesh.sankar-b.com/category/linux/
  http://rakesh.sankar-b.com/category/installation/
  http://rakesh.sankar-b.com/category/database/
  http://rakesh.sankar-b.com/author/rakeshsankar/page/2/
  http://rakesh.sankar-b.com/2010/09/10/install-setup-debian-os-server-machine-for-web-development/

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  helper-heroponriki · Member · Jun 6, 2013 at 6:06 pm

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  Hi there!

  From their email request, it sounds like they just want you to remove the link to their site in the second paragraph of the blog post here:
  http://rakesh.sankar-b.com/2010/09/10/install-setup-debian-os-server-machine-for-web-development/

  All the other links in the email are just different ways of referencing that post since you tagged and categorized the post, it would appear under an archive page of that tag or category.

  I see no request where they’re asking Google to remove your site from the internet. It will, however, take Google up to a few months to reindex your site if you make any changes, so unless they request your site be reindexed immediately their site may still show up in a search.

  I also don’t see anything in their correspondence saying you have malware on your site.

  I hope that clarifies things.

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  rakeshsankar · Member · Jun 9, 2013 at 7:31 am

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  Thanks a lot, I should have spent a couple of more mins to read the mail properly :).

  Thanks once again for the prompt response.