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My company is joining an Industrial Association. Part of the membership is a link to our site from theirs. I've found that going to their site triggers a "threat alert" through our company malware detection system and shows a link that may be infected with malware. With all of that said I have (2) questions...

1. Since this is a paid membership, will Google penalize us for having a link to our company from this association's website?

2. Since a link on their site has potential malware issues, should we add our link to their site or could it be harmful to us?

Any helpful advice is appreciated.

I did make the mistake of not re-directing...and just fixed and are looking at the results. The majority of decline was in Google but didn't seem to be a huge ranking loss...hoping I may have just fixed it with re-directs but still too early to tell. Thanks for the input. Will report back soon.