If you run a website or blog, chances are you’ve had to deal with malicious users trying to hack into your site. Locally, we’ve seen some WordPress blogs get hacked and several other local sites have been attacked or hijacked.

Keeping up with software, patches and code is an essential part of maintaining a website of any size. Speaking of which, if you are running WordPress, version 2.8.6 is now available, please update your software.

A reader sent us a note this morning saying GoErie.com is being marked as downloading malicious software to your computer.

Here’s the safe surf report from Google:

From the report:

Of the 206 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 12 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. The last time Google visited this site was on 2009-11-15, and the last time suspicious content was found on this site was on 2009-11-15.

We can pretty much guarantee that GoErie isn’t doing this stuff on purpose, but some one is serving bad stuff either through an ad placement or a third-party service, if we had to guess.

Searching Google also returned the following screens:

And this when you following the Google link to GoErie:

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