A Hack Attack Is Only Funny When It's Bill The Cat!

We were hacked. Bet the thought of it gives you shivers. It sure did me, and more!

Mid week I signed up for Google Webmaster Tools and was horrified to see a list of keywords that were pornographic AND not on my site. The first question, of course, was where on earth were these coming from.

I went on the server and started checking every file to see if I could find something that did not look right. As I was doing this my Live Help (Crafty Syntax Live Help http://www.craftysyntax.com//) popped up with a visitor on my site. As usual I checked to see the keywords they used to find me and what page they were searching for and was horrified to see pornographic keywords and a url on my site that I did not know existed.

OMG!

I immediately searched the particular folder and there were pages and pages of pornographic text files that had been uploaded to my site. I reported it to my hosting company who did give me information that helped. I downloaded one of the pages to view the code and saw that there was a script underneath. On further research (google search) I discovered that these pages were simply jumping off points, due to the script, to actual pornographic sites. But there was my url listed with these awful pornographic words - in Google :-(

Read the entire article here:

http://www.jbcr-virtualsolutions.com/tips-and-articles.html#Attack

Jan