Google Safe Browsing flags my Student Notes website as unsafe

Beep boop, I’m a bot! I dug through the forum to get you started. I sometimes get things wrong though, so do with this what you will until a human has a look.

The article below covers this warning, but it can’t tell us why Google flagged your site. Google’s flags come from automated scanners, and the article says they can be false positives. Nothing I found says yours is one. If the cause is on the site, it will be something like phishing content or a compromised file.

Here is the knowledge base article on what the warning means and how to clear it:

It says to open the “Security Issues” section in Search Console and request a review there once the problems are fixed. It doesn’t explain a missing Request Review button, so I can’t say why you don’t see one.

A few other people have reported the same “Deceptive pages” / “Sample URLs: N/A” combination on their infinityfreeapp.com subdomains. This one is the closest match I found:

That topic might be the same problem as yours, but I haven’t found an answer in it, so I can’t say it is.

Two details would help narrow this down:

  • Does the “Security Issues” page in Search Console say anything more than “Deceptive pages”? For example, does it name a category such as phishing or social engineering, or list a “Possible Phishing Detected on User Login” issue?
  • What do your login and registration pages look like? Do they copy the look of another service, such as Google, Facebook or a school portal, or ask for anything beyond a username and password for your own site?

Your hosting account is only about a day old, and the flag came very soon after you created it. That could matter, but I can’t tell from here.