We're back in business!

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on July 15th, 2009

The security people at our new host– HostGator– have given the site a clean bill of health. The folks at Google are reviewing the site. (It takes a behemoth like Google forever to do anything.) We trust the folks at HostGator– so far, their customer service and tech advice has been above and beyond tremendous. We highly recommend them.

If you’re still getting that “attack site” warning, just change your browser settings to ignore it. That’s what we did, early on.

In Firefox, it’s easy:

tools > options >security > uncheck “tell me if the site im visiting is a suspected attack site”

We didn’t advise anyone else to do it until we were absolutely sure that no harm could come of it.

We never did find out what, if any “badware” was on our site. (In fact, we’re of the opinion that it was on a different site that our old host had on their server… but Google’s robots are very sensitive. But, browse with confidence, as we have long ditched our old host.) Badware, from what we could learn, is a annoying (but not fatal) script that tracks folks’ browsing.

We fully intend to ramp up our posting now and we should be in full SHECKYmagazine mode shortly after The Male Half’s birthday.

Thanks to all for your patience! We missed you!

ADDENDUM: We just received the following from StopBadware.org:

We have processed your request for review of your website, http://sheckymagazine.com/. At this time, none of our data partners are reporting badware activity related to the site. Any warnings displayed by our partners about your site have either already been removed or should be removed shortly.

ADDENDUM II: FOS Paul Ogata just emailed us to say that Google has dropped the Attack Site warning. So it looks like we’re good to go and no jiggling of any browsers is necessary!

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