Google Adwords Ads rejected because of 'malicious or unwanted software'

M

Hi,

I have some big issues with my Google Adwords campaign, linked to a landing page. Yesterday my ads were rejected because of ‘malicious or unwanted software’. The first thing I did was redirecting the ads to the https url of my landing page. But Google still rejects the ads.

Someone who knows how I can solve this problem? Is it an issue that occurs often with Unbounce landing pages?

Thank you in advance!
Martijn

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Nicholas
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Hmm, never heard of an issue like that before regarding an Unbounce page. Do you have the page to share? Did you add any scripts/codes/redirects to the page that could cause this?

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M

Hi Nicholas,

The page is http://schatting.guvex.be/. We do have another page which has the same problem in Adwords (http://www.projectbotanique.be/).

There is a remarketing script and Facebook pixel script added to the guvex page, but I don’t think these are the problem?

M

Think it was the favicon image which was hosted on cloudapp. Will delete the favicon for a moment and see what Adwords says. 🙂

H

Hello,
Was there any solution to this? We just had all of our ads disapproved for the same reason across 2 separate pages. I tried removing the favicon which they said was malicious but still no resolution. They are picking something else up on the page. I have another URL that is not unbounce uploaded from the same website URL that is not flagged. Google is reading something off the page as malicious.
https://www.consumerawards.org/top-debt-relief/

Any help would be greatly appreciated… best, Jared

M

Hi Jared,

Removing the Favicon did the trick for us. So I’m sorry but can’t help you out.

Kind regards,
Martijn

H

Thanks Martijn,
Google has been no help on this. I removed favicon and still getting the dissapproval. I am at wits end here.

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