Tips to get rid of a link from an infected website ?

[JohannCR]

Hi,

During some netlinking analysis I found that a website linking to one of the sites I do SEO for triggers my antivirus... It seems infected by JS/Dldr.Scripy.A Java script virus.

Being the first time I deal with this kind of problem, and having not found any info on the Q&A or anywhere else, I wonder a few things :

1°) How to verify the reality of the threat and be sure it's not a false positive ? Is there some tool to scan the website, maybe an online vrus scanner ?

2°) How to contact the webmaster since I cannot look for a "contact us" page ? I looked in a whois, but I only got the e-mail of his hosting service, can I contact them directly ?

3°) Any tips or important things I should know ?

Thanks for your help

[Highland]

I wouldn't worry about one of your backlinks being infected. Google will probably flag their site but doesn't assume that sites it was linking to are bad.

One solitary link still can't really hurt you. Now if they have a sitewide to your site I might be concerned.

[SEODinosaur]

Here is a free tool to check if a site has malware http://www.avg.com.au/resources/web-page-scanner/

You should look good for an email address and have them take down that link if possible. However, I doubt having one bad link will influence your results. The new updates were targeting spam networks and over optimized sites (mostly sites that used exact anchor text's).

I hope this helps

[JohannCR]

Thanks Highland and Donnie for your input.

It's not a sitewide, though there are three links from it. AVG's tool confirms the threat so it's definitely a bad seed (thx for the link).

I know it's not that bad and that link alone can't penalize the website I work with, but that one gives me a lot of work : borderline spammy profile, with two "satellite site" heavily linking to it that were penalized (because of abuse of anchor text precisely)... not quite natural, though itself wasn't penalised by Penguin. I guess old numerous triangle links between the same webmaster's websites aren't triggering the algo, even if they're penalized, but I prefer to do a little bit of cleaning now before it's too late^^