I have the same problem at site http://www.arizona-bowling.com , but after deleting the code responsible for redirecting in .htaccess file the problem was not solved. Can you help with that?

P.S. How come the spam protection above filled itself in? I didn’t have to do it. Is this a bug?

Great post!

I’ve recently investigated similar issue with Googlebot redirection to malware sites. Hackers redirected crawlers to “bablo. me. uk”, which in turn redirected to various sites located on the same server. The only thing those sites do is serving trojans.

While I had doubts that this black hat SEO campaign would work, it appeared that those crappy sites managed to hijack top positions in Google’s search results. See this post of the owner of a hacked site. You can also see a screenshot of Google search results at the bottom of my post (I made it in case search results change by the time you check them).

I reported those sites to Google both as badware sites and as spam search results. But they are still not listed as “harmful”. Now that I see them on the top position of Google search results, I decided to let you know about the issue. Now they can infect unsuspecting searchers.

Maybe you can let right people in Google know about the malicious sites that game Googlebot. They are all on the same server (IP: 64 27 5 44) and should be pretty easy to ban/blacklist.

If you need more information, there is a contact form on my blog. Or twitter me @unmaskparasites

Thanks

Great post and thanks for bringing it to the attention of the masses. Is this something that you see often or is it few are far between?