"The website at thomashawk.com contains elements from the site thomashawk.com, which appears to host malware – software that can hurt your computer or otherwise operate without your consent." Whaaaaaat? - EricaJoy

i got the same warning. Whats up Thomas - Roberto Bonini

Hey so apparently this is related to a hack that happened to my blog a few weeks ago that Aaron Brazell was able to clean up and fix for me. It was a pain in the ass. He said that the problem now though is that Google has my blog/stylesheet blocked because they still think it's malicious(?) It should be fine now though and Aaron says that the Google block should go away in 90 days, but does anyone know how I can contact someone at Google and get them to check it out to get the block off sooner now that it's cleaned up? grrrrrr. - Thomas Hawk

Let me see what I can do. - EricaJoy from IM

Hi Thomas, there's still some hacked content on your site -- check out http://web-sniffer.net/... or http://web-sniffer.net/... - John Mueller

Your blog uses content from those folders, so users who use a browser with the SafeBrowsing-API will see the malware warning. Once you've removed the bad stuff (*do it now!* :-)), you can request a malware review in your Webmaster Tools account. It'll generally get processed within a few days (usually hours) and the label will be removed. You can find out more about that process at http://www.google.com/support... - John Mueller

... and finally, try to figure out how they were able to hack your site so that you can be sure that any security holes are plugged properly :-). Good luck! - John Mueller

thanks John. Will keep trying to fix it. - Thomas Hawk

Excellent post Thomas. Where do you spend you FF time now that you aren't posting current events like did last year? I spend more time on FB following my IRL friends now. - Russellreno

Russell, spending most of my time in DMU on Flickr these days. A vibrant intimate community of photographers and non-photographers even. I'm pretty involved there and post every day. All are welcome. http://www.flickr.com/groups... - Thomas Hawk

thanks for the advice John, I think I got it cleaned out and resubmitted my blog using Google's webmaster tools. Hopefully things are looking better. - Thomas Hawk

Keep us updated of the progress! - TrafficBug

It looks like it went through :-) -- I don't see the malware warning anymore. Thanks for fixing it! It sounds like it took (apparently) less than 12 hours from your review request to the malware tag being removed :-). - John Mueller

GREAT! John, thank you so much for your helpful advice. - Thomas Hawk

Thanks for answering the bat (G?) signal John. :) - EricaJoy from IM