Google Safe Browsing shows “Deceptive pages ahead” for my website. The Google Safe Browsing site status page says the site may trick visitors into sharing personal information or downloading software.
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Hello InfinityFree Support,
Google Safe Browsing has flagged my website as a deceptive site. The warning appears when visitors open the website. I have checked the Google Safe Browsing status page, and it reports that the site may trick visitors into sharing personal information or downloading software.
Could you please check whether any suspicious or malicious files have been found in my hosting account and advise me on how to secure the website?
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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.
I can’t scan your hosting account, and InfinityFree can’t remove this warning either. Only Google can remove a Safe Browsing listing, and only after you request a review. Our article on this warning covers what it means, how to find out what was flagged, and how to request that review:
The warning means Google’s automated scanners think the site is phishing. The article lists four common causes: a copy of another site’s login page, another brand’s name or logo, a hacked site, or a legitimate site that just looks like phishing. That last case mostly hits new sites where the first thing visitors see is a login form. Your account is only a couple of days old, and a site called “sistem absensi” (attendance system) may well open on a login page.
To work out which cause applies: what does the first page at your address show? Is it a login form, or a page that explains what the site is? Also, did you write the site yourself, or is it a script or template you downloaded? The Security Issues report in Google Search Console (steps are in the article) will also list example pages Google flagged. If you can tell me which URLs it names, that would narrow it down a lot.
Google says that your website is deceptive. It can only do that by viewing your website from the outside. It doesn’t scan your accounts contents, so it cannot find suspicious or malicious in your account in the first place.
And to stress again: Google says this, not we. I cannot tell you what Google found. You probably know more than we do.
And if you look closely, Google says that it’s deceptive, not that it’s unsafe. They are not saying there is malware or a security problem, they say that the content is misleading people.
I know that Google usually isn’t very specific on why they flagged your site. But we cannot tell you either.
So you’ll have to do what you can with the information Google provides you, solve the problems they list to the best of your abilities and request a review.