Fine bloggers, 

There has been a decent amount of chatter recently from people who are
concerned about losing access to their blogs due to a malware Terms of
Service violation. While this is admittedly an imperfect system at the
moment, please understand that all of these efforts are in place with
the best of intentions. 

Malware is a very serious issue and our standards have to err a bit on
the side of caution for the sake of securing our users and our
service. It's nothing personal we promise ;-) 

That being said, and after putting a good amount of thought into the
issue, we think it is only fair to give everyone a chance to clean up
their blogs. So here is the plan that we have come up with: 

Step 1: Locate and remove malware from your template 

My guess is that many of you folks have either custom templates or
third party gadgets, and the malware is somewhere within that code
that you copy and pasted into your template. 

-Open up the Html editor from either the Template | Edit Html or
Layout | Edit Html tab.

-Select 'Expand Widgets Templates' to show all of the code.

-Now comes the tricky part of pulling out the nefarious code. 

Oftentimes, it is located at the bottom of the page so starting from
the bottom is a good idea. Look for things like <script> and <iframe>
tags that link out to third party URLs, stat counters, as well as
third-party javascript elements. Remove these items from your template
and then make sure to save it afterwards. 

Step 2: Submit your cleaned up URL into the appeal form below: 

https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?key=pZHHZdeYKeHgXlmtdMIRfbw&... 

Step 3: Within 48 hours we will review your submission and, if it is
free of malware, go ahead and restore your blog. 

 I will post a list of restored URLs every other day at the following link: 

http://groups.google.com/group/blogger-help/web/restored-urls-from-ma... 

This list is also located within the 'Resources' Section of the
Blogger Help Group. 

If you do not see your link after 48 hours, then you can assume that
the malware was not removed. You may then repeat the process and re-
submit, if you wish. 

Thanks for hanging in there everyone,

-Gatsby