Since Monday night, Google has been warning people away from ArtsJournal, the popular arts-journalism site, saying it "may harm your computer."

As one Slog reader wrote: "When I went to ArtsJournal today, I got a thing that said it was a 'Reported Attack Site!' Can we ignore it? Is ArtsJournal the victim of a terrorist attack? Are the Chinese trying to keep us away from news of Fabio Luisi's appointment as Guest Conductor of the Met?"

Douglas McLennan, who runs the site, has a post up on ARTicles about what happened—and how Google is making things worse.

I removed all the malware scripts, then disabled the ad server, then shut down access to the ad server altogether. I went to every blog and took the ad call scripts out. Okay, way too much detail here, I realize, but I wanted to give at least a bit of a sense of the methodical work I went through to get rid of the malware.

But Google seems to be dragging its feet on their clean bill of health:

... should any one company have this much ultimate control over what we have access to? In my case (and probably for many others), the Google system for getting unblocked from the rest of the web sucks. Google offers low information about your status once you've been blocked and no information after you've done what they've suggested. For a news site that depends on constant updating, three days being blocked from most of the web is devastating.