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WWW.PRC.GOV.PH – Harmful Website

Posted by Sustines Laplana, 2 August 2009 at Category/ies: Internet, Security
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This afternoon, I noticed that Google considered the official website of the Professional Regulation Commission or PRC as a harmful website.

Here’s the screenshot of the SERP when searching for the “www.prc.gov.ph“.

wwwprcgovph

And right below the title of the website, Google placed this comment “Ang site na ito ay maaring makasama sa computer mo (my translation: This site may cause harm to your computer)“.

But what really are the causes why Google considered the PRC’s official website as harmful?

The flag, “This site may harm your computer”, is Google’s way of protecting its users from the harm brought by websites that install malicious codes in the background or the websites that are promoting harmful websites.

In other words, if your website is flagged in the search engine result page, then it only means either of the two: (1) contains or simply spreads malicious codes; (2) linking to a harmful websites.

But in the case of the PRC’s official website, the flag by Google to the website could mean that Google found malicious codes from the website itself especially that the said website offers documents and forms in ZIP and PDF files.

What I means is that maybe some of the files hosted by the site are infected by malicious programs like virus, trojan, worm, etc.

In the Google Safe Browsing – Diagnostic page for www.prc.gov.ph, we’ll find this information:

What is the current listing status for prc.gov.ph?

Site is listed as suspicious – visiting this web site may harm your computer.

Part of this site was listed for suspicious activity 1 time(s) over the past 90 days.

What happened when Google visited this site?

Of the 89 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 2 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. The last time Google visited this site was on 2009-08-01, and the last time suspicious content was found on this site was on 2009-07-14.

Malicious software includes 4 scripting exploit(s), 4 trojan(s), 4 exploit(s).

Malicious software is hosted on 2 domain(s), including gamemaill.com/, f1y.in/.

1 domain(s) appear to be functioning as intermediaries for distributing malware to visitors of this site, including f1y.in/.

This site was hosted on 1 network(s) including AS9658 (ETPI).

But sometimes the flag is false. Maybe Google identified something from the site as malicious code but in reality it’s not.

However, we still need to check our site just to make sure that it’s really safe because while your site is still flagged by Google, then you might lose a lot of traffic that should be driven into your site.

Remember that when clicking  a flagged website from the SERP, instead of redirecting you to the website, Google will direct you first to a warning page that is shown like the screenshot below:

googlewarning

Those who understand what are written on that warning page will of course decide to return to the SERP instead of visiting your site.

And while you’re losing visitors, you’re also losing income.

In checking whether your site or blog is harmful or not, use a site-advisor tool. Here’s few of the site-advisors I knew:

  1. McAfee Site Advisor.
  2. Norton Site Advisor.

But the best thing to do is to use the Google Webmasters’ Tools. It’s Google that flags websites in the search results, so it’s Google that can help us identify the file or the webpage in our site where it found something wrong.

Once you checked and corrected the problem, file a reconsideration request at Google Webmaster Central and explain in your letter what have you done to correct the problem and why Google should remove the flag on your site.

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10 Responses to “WWW.PRC.GOV.PH – Harmful Website”

  1. Miss Blogger says:
    August 5, 2009 at 6:57 pm

    These past days PRC website surely received tons of traffic because of the last NLE. New nurses been surfing PRC site for new informations and they won’t bother if PRC is harmful. :D

    That’s based on my experiece, I won’t bother if its harmful. :D

    Reply
    • Jake says:
      August 6, 2009 at 10:36 am

      i agree lalo na kung ang gamit ng isang surfer ay ang computer ng internet cafe. Bat ba tayo magalala na masira ng virus ang computer na gamit natin kung hindi naman ito atin?

      Pero kung ako mismo ang may ari ng computer at nais kong magkaroon ng problem dahil lamang sa pagvisit ng isang website na considered as harmful, siguro mas mabuti nang wag na lang akong dumalaw sa mga ganong website.

    • Json says:
      October 19, 2009 at 2:22 pm

      Let’s not be thinking of selfish thought/s only. Let’s try to be considerate to other people’s property.

  2. Ariston|Money-tise Online says:
    August 7, 2009 at 10:10 pm

    tama kayo, halimbawa nga nasa internet cafe kayo kaya oks lang kase nde nga sarili ‘yong computer… pero kapag mag-open or naglog-in din kayo ng email nyo(sa cafe), may posibilidad na may makakapasok na virus(depende sa klase) sa email nyo. O kaya mas maganda na hwag nalang buksan. :)

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    • Jonha Ducayag Revesencio says:
      December 14, 2009 at 11:39 pm

      Tama nga naman si Ariston, try to open your email while you’re surfing a harmful or unsecured site and you’ll see kung ano ang resulta ng pagiging borara or apathy nyo. I don’t mean to be offensive pero tama nga naman, wag naman yung basta nalang. Remember kung tayo din may business tapos ganun ang mindset ng mga customers natin, tayo din ang lugi. See, our tricks often boomerang.

  3. Technologian says:
    August 8, 2009 at 1:18 pm

    I blogged this 2 weeks ago… Even if it was flagged by Google, I still entered the site but I tweaked my browser first so the malicious codes (if there is) will not run… I compared the original PRC site before with the current flagged site, and there’s no difference… I was looking for a certain page that I believed, contains the links mentioned to be a malware – but just to see nothing… When I tried viewing the source code- it’s not only Google which doesn’t permit, but also Firefox… I tried IE, but still I can’t view the source code… That’s why I blogged that PRC website is not a malware site! See my post here: http://cite-technologian.blogspot.com/2009/07/prc-website-is-not-malware-site.html

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  4. joreel says:
    August 15, 2009 at 11:29 am

    I also blogged about this, http://emag.joreeldiaz.com/prc-website-unavailable/

    some were complaining about this… they cannot open the site of PRC.. the site is still flagged by Google. Sometimes na oopen minsan naman hindi.
    I hope na sana ma fix ng site admin yung site nila.

    Reply
  5. Selboy says:
    August 30, 2009 at 11:49 am

    I accessed the Official website of Professional Regulation Commission or PRC this afternoon and a threat was detected by my PC’s anti-malware software. It is said that the threat name is called “Exploit Script Injection 367″.

    I wonder if the PRC website admin knew this.

    Reply
  6. Technologian says:
    September 23, 2009 at 11:32 pm

    Hi all… I come back to comment on this post ’cause someone else visited my blog, and based on the “track”- the visitor came from this post… Anyway, for those who are still interested what’s going on the PRC website, it is working now…. Thanks also to the Selaplana, maybe our posts triggered also the admin of PRC website to work out the issue…

    Reply
  7. George says:
    November 20, 2010 at 9:31 pm

    For my opinion,there have some seasons that why the people don’t want to leave a comment here.

    Reply

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