Yes, I am. I just cannot help it! 
Sorry to have been unable to offer something useful for you....

Sir, I have told you that I have played these lines. chess is about concrete aplications, if you follow my article you shall see my games, that is all that I can offer. Sorry if it is not enough for you. Perhaps somebody else cares enough to answer you something else, I am done.

What should I play? Nothing, because I only play dxc4 and Bb4...
Of course, Black must go for f5 and the plan with Nf8...But I don't like such positions, as I already said.
Why don't you come with something? Apparently you have everything very clear on tyour head, enough "to refute" anything that appears from your coleagues here....

Ok, now the issue seems to be clarified, you have a choice, which seems to be the move 7...h6. I cannot give any advice on a move I just don't understand, Black is giving White something on which to bite later on. Perhaps it is the correct move, someone else may have a clue, I don't. I can only talk about my experience with both sides of the position, and that does not include the move 7...h6.
I would rather call White plan a bluff and play immediately Nxg4. But the position that arise from both of these moves are so tactical that to give variations is rather pointless. Both Bb4 and dxc4,on the contrary, allow strategic disquisitions...But that is not what you want.

First, you are proposing something that implies an insoluble dilemma: "I do not like beeing attacked " There is nothing you can do about it, because "to be attacked" is a choice of your opponet's not yours. The only thing you can do is to be in a solid position to resist any eventual attack.

Shabalov's is an attacking line.

The author of the article is not just "using huge databases", he says at the beginning of the article, about 7...Bb4 "This is a solid move" A little later he adds:"My personal choice would be 9…Bxc3, which I consider the most solid move here. Black has a reasonable game after 10.Bxc3 dxc4 11.Bxc4 b5"

Therefore, he is clearly stating his opinion about the two most reliable lines dxc4 or Bb4.

If you go to your huge database and do some research, you shall see that both moves are the ones that give most chances for Black in terms of resisting White onslaught.

If you are going to critizice some other's work, please, do it `properly: read the complete article.

Last, nobody knows for "absolutely" sure such things in chess. If you listen to the greatest masters commentaries many times they say "I just don't know what is happening here" The day "they come to know for sure" would be the end of chess. We have not arrived to that yet.

The most reliable moves are Bb4 and dxc4. But still, if White so likes to, You are going to be attacked, like it or not.

Take a look at Lasker, Petrosian and Kortschnoj and develop some taste for defending. We are all prone to self-defeating propositions in terms of our development, I don't like this and I don't like that...But if you opponent likest it, you are going to be confronted anyway. The only measure is to be in a position where his/her attack is not going to succeed.

First, there is another game between the same players quoted, one that ended in a draw. In second place, if dxc4 is good for Shirov, who have used it regularly, it could be good for anyone. And in third place, it is abolsutely NORMAL for White to tretain a small advantage in most openings, the question is that this small edge be kept just "academical" in order for Black to draw. If you want something more secure and reliable, why don't try parchis...? 

Here you have a fairly good coverage for picking a line against the Shabalov's


http://www.jeremysilman.com/chess_opng_anlys/shabalovs_7g4_in_QG_semi_slav.html


http://www.jeremysilman.com/chess_opng_anlys/shabalovs_7g4_in_QG_semi_slav_Pt2.h...