Hacked website

[Stephen Blair]

My website has been hacked, google have put a warning above it in the search results, it has been checked and there isn't any Malware, it just says it has, I am waiting for google to check out my hosts report on the matter, I never thought anything like this would happen to a tree cutters website.

I have already had a customer call me about it and who knows how much work I might be loosing. Has this happened to anyone else and can you take legal action if we find out who did it ?

[Fenland]

Very common mate I'm afraid.

 

Some people do it for gain i.e hidden links, redirects, use your site to host/share illegal stuff whilst others do it for fun (just cos they can).

 

Hopefully your host has a decent back-up for you and you can revert to a clean one ASAP. One thing I would check though is to find out how the hack occurred.

 

I suspect it will be virtually impossible to track the culprit...difficult enough to get stolen plant back, imagine what its like trying to catch a cyber-nerd.!!

[Stephen Blair]

cheers fenland, hopefully it gets sorted.

[skyhuck]

Bummer mate

 

This is the last thing you need in the current economic climate, were every inquiry counts.

[Rob D]

I've just had a look and yes doesn't want me to look at the site.

 

I've not come across it before so no advice sorry!

[gensetsteve]

I had a company hosting my site unless I made alot of changes it would cost £60 for the year. I made none but 6 months later got an invoice demanding a further £178 . I refused within a week my site was gone and a debt recovery agency on my case. They registered my website in their name and redirected all my traffic to a plant company they owned. It took about 3 years to snatch my web address back at 12 oclock at night. The debt recovery agency backed off when they realised the hosting company were crooks. Nearly 5 years later I am still getting grief from these cyber geeks. Moral of the story is dont upset cyber geeks and make sure your virus protection is top notch right now. We had a bucket load of malware last week on both our computers and it cost over £100 to get it sorted.

[roseyweb]

Thats why I do my own site,

its a rubbish site, but its mine and I can edit and add things in seconds. If someone hacked it I could reinstall it all in about 5 mins

[Stephen Blair]

i have had the site for a couple of years now and this is the first problem, the company that host it have been great and got onto it straight away. He is just waiting for google to remove the warning.

[tommer9]

Hope you get it sorted ASAP Steve.

[scraggs]

I run a couple of sites and both got hacked a couple of months back, to make things worse I hadn't checked them for a while and from the changed files they had altered they were hacked nearly a week previous.

I now check the sites every day.

 

We had a bucket load of malware last week on both our computers and it cost over £100 to get it sorted.

 

I might be teaching you to suck eggs but the free versions of these 2 normaly stop most of that.

Malwarebytes

Ad-Aware by Lavasoft

Edited May 13, 2011 by scraggs