It appears that mal­ware has been down­load­ing to unsus­pect­ing web­sites with Win­dows update (yikes!) Read the arti­cle here:
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=printArticleBasic&articleId=9019118

Note: This is no doubt what hap­pened to my site

“The threat of mali­cious web­sites host­ing exploits has reached a point where Google’s engi­neers have decided to respond with a secu­rity analy­sis of the pages they index. ”

For web­sites that con­tain mal­ware through no active fault of the web­mas­ter, or sites that do not prop­erly san­i­tize user con­tributed con­tent, the ulti­mate Inter­net penalty could be imposed on them — a Google advi­sory that the site found in a search is unsafe. That could effec­tively destroy traf­fic to a site that has been hacked or designed poorly.” Nick Carr calls Google’s secu­rity aims a plan to police the Web.

Read more on this and my ques­tion to Matt Cutts:

http://www.jbcr-virtualsolutions.com/tips-and-articles.html#Not

Jan

Just wanted to pass along some infor­ma­tion that has helped me through this ugly period.

Both Google Ana­lyt­ics and Google Web­mas­ter Tool­box have been extremely help­ful with list­ing of key­words (see­ing the bad ones dis­ap­pear) and page vis­its. With­out this kind of infor­ma­tion I would be very much in the dark. I would also not be able to see when things are start­ing to change — right them­selves. So if you don’t Ana­lyt­ics or Web­mas­ter Tool­box I highly recomend you do.

Also, as I men­tioned in my arti­cle, a very nice WebProWorld mod­er­a­tor passed along an htac­cess file which I mod­i­fied to cover spe­cific key­words and phrases that were being used. We are now in the process of alpha­bet­iz­ing the list to eas­ily add need words or phrases, so it if you would like a copy just drop me a note.

Live Help Crafty Syn­tax has allowed me to watch who comes online and what pages they visit so I can feel secure.

I sure don’t wish this on any­one, but I sure have learned a lot. If you every find your­self in this spot I will be happy to pass on what I have learned.

Jan