Jan 29 2009

Hacked!

wayne

About a week ago I found out that all my sites base off of wtweddings.com was hacked and it was redirecting visits to a malware site.  My web host says its my site, but I have a feeling it’s my web host that got hacked.  Either way it’s all cleaned up now.  If anyone reading this visited my sites between 1/1/09 and 1/23/09, you should do a virus scan on your computer.

I found out my site had a problem when I tried to visit it with Firefox.  Firefox refused to load the site, instead displaying a red box that said my site was an Attack Site.  Apparently Firefox reads from a list that Google maintains about bad sites.  If you have a website and this happens to you, clean up your site then go here https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/diagnostics.  Sign up for the service and add your site.  Then on the Overview page for your site click the “review” link.  If your site is clean, this should remove you from the bad list within 24 hours.

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