Unfortunately, it doesn’t matter how trusted and legitimate a site is. Sites are hacked constantly … often because of compromised passwords related to malware on the local computer or vulnerabilities related to the site.

Scanning your site files with an anti-virus may catch some things, but it won’t catch everything. Same thing goes for Dasient … it does not detect everything.

A clean bill of health with any product does not mean that everything is OK. It may just mean that the product is not checking for the right thing, under the right circumstances.

Most products are a work in progress and are constantly tweaked to detect constantly changing methods that the malware writers use. The products are tremendous aids when they identify something for you, and when they can show that you successfully removed that particular problem. But, if there are other indicators that there is a problem, and that product didn’t detect the problem, you should keep looking.

If Google flagged a site, it is an indication that their scanner ran into something that exhibited malicious behavior. Sometimes that “something” is random and elusive, but it presented itself at the time that Google checked it.

However, if you don’t find anything that stands out, after thoroughly reviewing all possible situations, and you have re-uploaded known, clean files … go ahead and “Request a Review” and see if Google clears the site.

Most of the times it is compromised passwords. Do a scan of your PC and make sure there are no Trojans/viruses capturing your ids/passwords, change ALL passwords especially FTP, it is likely your passwords have been compromised. Never store/save your passwords in your FTP client, use secure FTP if available.

Have one extra (beer) this afternoon and will call it even.