Dark World of Badware attacks Creator of Dark Worlds of Gaming

American McGee, noted video gaming renaissance man, recently had a run-in with badware. (details here)

Like many people who are flagged by Google about badware, McGee blogged “My initial (useless) response to this knowledge was indignation. “How could my site be infected?” StopBadware.org sympathizes completely. Badware on your website is often a little like getting mugged: you really didn’t deserve it, and you really didn’t do anything to cause it. Unfortunately, it is there and you need to deal with it, which is exactly what American did. “Next I requested ‘review’ from StopBadWare – and received a note informing me of certain evil residing on ’/page/2’ of my blog.” Evil was found in the form of some iframes that could have automatically infected visitors with badware without their knowledge.

McGee removed the pox from his website and soon the Google flag disappeared and his site was removed from our clearinghouse. Case solved, good triumphs over evil and the internet is a better place for it.

I wish American the best and look forward to his excellent blogging and more of his beautifully dark vision of the world.