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Malware on my website

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  • 17-09-2009 10:43am
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    davidmdot
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2 ✭


    I got red-flagged by Google two days ago for having malicious software on my website (irishboard.ie). I didn't put it there. In fact, I wouldn't know how.

    What other explanations might there be for how it got there?

    (Btw, I've since taken down the site and put up a temporary page which has been declared clean by Google.)
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    RoadKillTs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,710 ✭✭✭RoadKillTs


    What other explanations might there be for how it got there?

    You might have been hacked.
    I'd change your login details for your site and run an full scan on whatever pc was been used to edit the site.
    Also its no harm to inform your hosting provider.


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    davidmdot
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2 ✭davidmdot


    Thank you for your suggestion RoadKillTs. That's what I thought. No idea why anyone would hack into my site though.


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    oeb
    Registered Users Posts: 2,793 ✭✭✭oeb


    davidmdot wrote: »
    I got red-flagged by Google two days ago for having malicious software on my website (irishboard.ie). I didn't put it there. In fact, I wouldn't know how.

    What other explanations might there be for how it got there?

    (Btw, I've since taken down the site and put up a temporary page which has been declared clean by Google.)

    This happened to me a while back. I can't remember the name of the virus, it's a worm that I believe was delivered through a flaw in Acrobat and/or Flash. What it does is listens for outgoing FTP connections, then it modifies the code.

    It inserts a bit of javascript up the top of the pages, it's obfusticated, so it's not easy to tell what it's doing, but the code does look out of place. Go through every file in your site (including pages you may be including) and strip it out. The malware error is not actually with your site, what the script does is fetches a .js file from a remote site that is known for hosting malware, that's what is causing the error.


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