[Soliton]

I had a virus warning yesterday and had to exit IE.

[vietvet67]

No problems here..

[pepperhead]

I just tried out the site and I got right in using firefox.

[trad_anglican]

I’ve noticed that I get blank ad windows popping up on that site the past few days, which I’ve never had before. The IE popup blocker does block something, but not these blank ad windows.

[Desron13]

The site may have been hacked in such a way as to cause it to push out some sort of malware. It will be interesting to see what the American Spectator Web Masters do about it.

[ConservativeMind]

It states that one of 66 pages hosted on the site in the past 90 days tried to download unauthorized software to a computer (likely a virtual computer) hosted by the Google search bot.

It is possible that an ad did it, or, hopefully not, a listing with the bad domain names triggered it (I say this because someone in a forum could have put that in their post and Google’s bots may not have understood that such a reference was not executable). The two domains listed as the referred ones have apparently infected Sears.com.mx, which is Sears for Mexico, along with a number of other sites.

[kingu]

http://safebrowsing.clients.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?client=Firefox&hl=en-US&site=http://spectator.org/

Looking at the listing, it appears that someone posted a link, possibly as a response, that triggered the site advisory. I use a DNS blacklist that blocks most malicious sites, but still, it appears to be a valid trigger. The domain holder can follow the tools available to have the site re-scanned and cleared once the content that was detected is removed.

Malicious content was found hosted though links on the spectator.org site on the following... Malicious software is hosted on 4 domain(s), including h25.6600.org, chinabnr.com, dns5.8866.org.

[ConservativeMind]

I would expect that the American Spectator could run through their code or filter out those referred domains and when Google reevaluates the site, it will be fine again.

[Doohickey]

Works on IE7. Maybe you just need a better browser.

[mnehring]

I am getting the same thing with Opera. Looking at the script, I believe Google is thinking it is malicious because the folks over at Spectator.org wrote all of their login script into the home page instead of calling out an external file. It makes the page you are running to bots appear like it is trying to pull malicious data from you. Also, it looks like one of their advertisers is using a zedo.com intercept advertising script which are notorious for setting off flags.