Is Top Digger Hosting Malware, or is Google unfairly 'Burying' Him?

Self-proclaimed "Social Media Maven," top digg user, and blogger, Muhammad Saleem is a forced to be reckoned with on Digg.com. He regularly has numerous stories on the homepage of digg- almost on a daily basis. He' part of a weekly podcast, the drill down, and as one of digg's unofficial top 3 submitters, he's literally directing hundreds-of-thousands of eye balls in web traffic per week.

I've followed "msaleem" on digg.com and netscape's social new site, propeller, where he is a paid member of the community. He consistently submits popular content and is an active and high profile participant and contributor in the social ecosystem of many of these bookmarking communities.

I was therefore very surprised when I googled him to find out that Google's search says Muhammad's site will literally be harmful to my computer and won't even allow me to click through to his blog! I've visited Mu's site numerous times in the past. I have never wondered about my privacy, safety, or security in doing so. However, at least according to Google anyway , I should be concerned. Considering the number of other visitors and digg users that likely have visited it, I think perhaps we all should be, at least until Muhammad comes forward, or the issue is cleared up.

Which leads me to this: I have contacted Muhammad on pownce about this 2 days ago, and he still hasn't responded. I'll update if he does. In the meantime, if anyone out there is a web expert and safely can attest to the veracity of Google's finding (or lack thereof) and the safety Mu's site, I'd definitely want to hear about that as well.

Complete Update From Muhammad on Pronet Advertising

Update 2 - 10/29: I've heard from another webmaster, that this is something that has happened by mistake before. I find that to be troubling, especially when it comes from Google. If certainty is in doubt, Google really needs to take the site/result out the index instead of labeling it like this. The lack of specific information as to what the alleged badware is, is very frustrating too.

Update 3 - 10/29 10:17 PM, cst: A friend emailed me that they think there is something running on this site. Upon clicking through from a bloglines reader, their My Avast software popped up virus alerts. Still lacking complete details, but be careful. There are two kinds of viral content and this is one you don't want.

Final Update: See the linked Update from Muhammad above regarding what happened and how it's been fixed. It turns out that his index.php file was hacked and there was in fact some malicious code there (a Javascript Trojan from what some vistors could discern) It's more important than ever to make sure your systems are secure and up-to-date. As we increasingly put our lives online, and the dark hackers get ever more sophisticated, we are constantly at risk. Look for more posts on security to follow.