I have a problem with my web page. As a complete newbie at html coding and all things web designee, I am at present simply experimenting while gradually setting up some content. However, when I attempt to view the page from a computer outside my home message appear telling me that the web site is a virus enabler or that it could be dangerous to download it.

This could be a coding problem. Or my web page might really be a virus or virus enabler. I do not know how to tell, let alone how to fix this. If anyone could assist, that would be great.

My web page is www.balestar.com

Thanks

David

One thing you need to do is compress that image on the index page. That thing is hunk-in at 587 kb. Makes for a slow load.

David, you need to clean up the markup. You have errors in the coding. Not sure if that helps against the 'virus', I see no hidden code or anything that could be suspect.

Which anti virus programme are you running anyway? Some of them have the habit of 'finding' virus on a page because you haven't verified the site with them. Norton is one of those progs.

The computers that I have tried viewing the web page from run a variety of anti-virus software, but Norton is one of them. I will see about verifying the site.

Thanks - I will endeavour to clean things up; learning it as I go.

And I will compress the image - it is a new one that I put up yesterday, and it was indeed slow.

If it means anything, I just went to your site and I get no warnings at all. I'm using PC Tools Internet Security which is usually pretty good at nailing sites that are problems, and some that aren't even lol.

You definitely need to fix that image issue though, 2 minutes into loading your site and it had barely gotten the bottom quarter of an inch loaded. Extremely huge, I would suggest you doing that A.S.A.P. so that people trying to help you won't have to sit and wait on that to load. Good luck on it

2 minutes, Are you using your neighbors connection.

haha, no I'm actually on 6 Mb DSL which is pretty good. That image is so huge I finally just closed the page and gave up lol

David, when I run your site through the validator, I get 11 errors and 7 warnings. A lot of those errors have to do with html code that should have been css instead. But you'll get a long way if you:

Remove the meta tag: <meta name="created" content="Tue, 22 Nov 2011 02:37:59 GMT"> (that is not your fault but CC's. If you want the date to appear, chuck it in with the 'generator' tag like this:
<meta name="generator" content="CoffeeCup HTML Editor (www.coffeecup.com)created on Tue, 22 Nov 2011 02:37:59 GMT">)
Remove all the border="0" from the html. If they make a difference, then use css.
Give all your images and other files names consisting of one word. If you have e.g. 'Balestar Cover v3-small.bmp', either write %20 instead of the spaces (not recommendable, only if you insist on having the names with the spaces) or write 'balestar_cover_v3-small.bmp' (recommendable, also with all lowercase).

When you have done this, there will be far less errors. Regarding the file format .bmp for images, I don't know when it was allowed for websites, you may possibly run into problems with older browsers. It would be better if you saved them as .png, which is a much leaner format, so then the file size of the images will be further reduced.

Thanks very much, everyone. I will make a start on cleaning up the code tomorrow.