The cleanup is done, the malware is gone - and the warnings are still there. That is not failure; it is how blacklists work. Each one keeps its own list and its own queue, and asking in the wrong order, or too early, leaves warnings alive for weeks.
A hacked site accumulates flags in several independent databases while it is infected. Cleaning the site fixes the cause; it does not press a single master reset. Every list has to be asked, separately, to look again - and each asks the same question first: is it really clean now? This is the order that works, and why.
No review survives a dirty site. Before requesting anything, be certain the job is complete:
A review requested on a still-infected site fails, and a failed review can make the next one slower. Finish first.
Reviewers are convinced by evidence, not adjectives. Rescan the site with Sucuri SiteCheck and VirusTotal, confirm Google Search Console's Security Issues report shows no problems, and save dated screenshots of all of it. When any reviewer asks what you did, you will answer with a cleanup date and clean scan results - the two things every process asks for.
If Chrome or Firefox showed the red warning, that is Google Safe Browsing, and it affects the most visitors. In Google Search Console, open the Security Issues report for your site and use Request a Review, describing what was infected and exactly what you removed and changed. A clean, specific request is what gets the browser warning lifted.
With the site provably clean, go to your Norton Safe Web report and file the dispute - verified ownership, a message that states the cleanup date and that independent scans are now clean. Norton re-evaluates the domain against its own data. If your visitors are mainly Norton and Symantec users - offices running Endpoint Protection, for example - this review matters as much as Google's, which is why it follows immediately.
Smaller lists clear on their own schedules. A few days after the big two, look your domain up in the other raters - McAfee TrustedSource and the blacklist view inside Sucuri SiteCheck - and dispute any that still flag you. Keep one simple note: list, date requested, date cleared. When a customer reports a warning, that note tells you instantly which list is still holding you.
Watch the video to see the warning from the visitor's side - after a cleanup, that page is what you are working to make disappear.
▶️ Watch Full VideoBecause the lists are independent. Google, Norton and McAfee each re-check on their own queue. Clearing one never clears another.
Almost always reinfection: a missed backdoor, or one password that never got changed. Clean deeper this time - then dispute again with the new cleanup documented.
The clean-proof step must come first for all of them. After that, order by your audience: Google for browser traffic, Norton for Norton and Symantec users. Filing everywhere on the same day, once clean, is fine.