Tag: Mumblings, very definitely Mumblings, today!

If you've made it thus far, today, you are very brave — very brave indeed.
Or you are using an outdated browser ...

My site has been blacklisted by Google, King of the Universe.
Actually, it is very kind of Google to inform me that my web pages have been compromised but, hello-oo, it's the weekend, I get the most traffic at a weekend, you can take that bloody sign down again now!

My site was attacked on Friday afternoon; all of the .html pages on the site were hacked and a Java script inserted. The script contained an iFrame, an invisible frame that, in this case, whisks your computer off to a site in China that distributes malware.
I have been unable to find out, yet, whether it is my hosts server or just my pages that have been hacked.

I spent a couple of hours replacing each and every .html document on this sub domain and the main domain it is hosted on — this blog alone contains 395 .html pages, then there are my galleries etc. — a lot of work, I can tell you.
Anyway, I did my homework and informed Google of the fact.

Google was very quick in putting up the sign to inform everyone that I am actively supplying malware it took them just a few hours. When I informed them that the danger has been removed, I got a message that they will check my site again in due time, but this might take a while ...
... not good, not good at all — this is costing me traffic and a lot of those visitors won't return again!
Please take that sign down ...



Of course, I also had to change all the passwords that allowed people to access my sites and had to check my computers for trojans (to my knowledge there are no confirmed virus for the Mac OS X, last count there were 140'000 or so for that other operating system) or keystroke loggers. There were none, so I must presume that the passwords for access to my web site were too easy to guess.

If you visited this site between 15:00 and 24:00 on Friday and were not warned about doing so, please check your computer for malware!