No, Classical Values is not “malware”

In yet another example of how much online annoyances suck, it has recently come to my attention that because I was once stupid enough or naive enough to use Blogrolling on the Classical Values blogroll, and because the company died or something, what were once good faith linking attempts on my part have now turned into “malware.”

getting a malware warning when trying to visit the site

I looked into that, and learned that it’s because of the blogrolling code in a template, which used to automatically list the links.
The links disappeared (which sucks, because I linked each blog for a reason), but the code remained. It is explained here:

Some people have recently seen malware warning notices whenever they access any blog that contains a blogroll (or link list) sponsored by BlogRolling. Among the blogs that have been affected are two blogs belonging to 1389AD, namely 1389 Blog and 1389 Message Blog.
You may be relieved to know that the security alerts are a false alarm. I have since moved the Blogrolling link lists to a separate page, so that the messages will not come up when readers attempt to access blog posts.
If you own or administer a blog or website that displays a link list via BlogRolling, you will need to be aware of this. Malware warning notices can frighten and upset visitors to your blog, even if the notices are bogus.

Anyway, I deleted all those damned rpc.blogrolling.com code snippets and java crap, so the “malware” problem should be solved.
But that does not solve the problem of the lost links. I have never intentionally deleted any blog from this blogroll. No delinking has ever gone on here as I don’t believe in it. The blogroll is disorganized to say the least, and it is very old, and while I should probably go through it and clean it up one of these days, it still upsets me to see the blogrolling links disappear. I am going to try to find them and get them back, but that will probably involve manually entering each one. (Ugh!)
So, if anyone who reads this was blogrolled here via Blogrolling, please bear in mind that I did not delink you or remove your blog, as I do not do such things. Feel free to leave a comment below or email me if your blog has disappeared, and I will make sure it gets back on the blogroll.
A pox on whoever is responsible for this annoyance! (Although I am sure that whoever that is will undoubtedly say it wasn’t his fault. And why should it be? Nothing is ever anyone’s fault.)