Virus/Malware
Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2010 4:16 pm
Unfortunately seems like some malicious code was injected into some of the site pages recently. If you use FireFox you might have gotten an alert when trying to enter.
I have removed all pages that were updated by something/someone otherwise recently and wiped the suspicious code inserts off and replaced those with cleaned files.
Also spent all last night running virus/malware scans and working with the hosting company about verification of removal and further steps. Also Google put a malware alert associated the site and I've contacted them through webmaster tools to review to see if problem removed.
Ugh, hate the scumbags who create this kind of junk out there...
These days people should have some kind of anti-virus software, and there are some very good pay ones but thought I'd throw out some free versions that don't cost and if GMs here didn't already have strong anti-virus/malware protection that they might look into some of these free products and at least scan your system to make sure you weren't impacted.
Sorry for that guys, and trying to resolve it and prevent in the future. One of these days will get a dedicated server without anything or anybody else on it.
IF YOU DON'T HAVE A GOOD ANTI-VIRUS OR MALWARE PROTECTION SOFTWARE, CHECK INTO THESE FREE VERSIONS. Any other suggestions are welcome.
MICROSOFT SECURITY ESSENTIALS
http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/
MALWARE REMOVAL TOOL / ONECARE SCAN
http://www.microsoft.com/security/malwa ... fault.aspx
http://onecare.live.com/site/en-US/cent ... mscom_msrt
AVG FREE
http://free.avg.com/us-en/homepage
I have removed all pages that were updated by something/someone otherwise recently and wiped the suspicious code inserts off and replaced those with cleaned files.
Also spent all last night running virus/malware scans and working with the hosting company about verification of removal and further steps. Also Google put a malware alert associated the site and I've contacted them through webmaster tools to review to see if problem removed.
Ugh, hate the scumbags who create this kind of junk out there...
These days people should have some kind of anti-virus software, and there are some very good pay ones but thought I'd throw out some free versions that don't cost and if GMs here didn't already have strong anti-virus/malware protection that they might look into some of these free products and at least scan your system to make sure you weren't impacted.
Sorry for that guys, and trying to resolve it and prevent in the future. One of these days will get a dedicated server without anything or anybody else on it.
IF YOU DON'T HAVE A GOOD ANTI-VIRUS OR MALWARE PROTECTION SOFTWARE, CHECK INTO THESE FREE VERSIONS. Any other suggestions are welcome.
MICROSOFT SECURITY ESSENTIALS
http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/
MALWARE REMOVAL TOOL / ONECARE SCAN
http://www.microsoft.com/security/malwa ... fault.aspx
http://onecare.live.com/site/en-US/cent ... mscom_msrt
AVG FREE
http://free.avg.com/us-en/homepage