An unwelcome hidden extra

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charles cawley
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An unwelcome hidden extra

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A member has just kindly told us that we had unwittingly imported a link to casino insider .ca to our home page.

We had taken some 'free' buttons, not realising they came with that little extra. Usually we check the code but, in this case, phones ringing like made caused us to take our eye off the ball.

Our new web site would have got rid of this unwelcome extra... but it's a good idea to double check the code from time to time for 'foreign bodies'. We were lucky, it could have been far worse.

Many thanks to that kind person.
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Post by Normandie »

You probably want to "break" the link in your post rather than leave it live.
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Not one of my better days.

Thanks.
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Re: An unwelcome hidden extra

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charles cawley wrote:A member has just kindly told us that we had unwittingly imported a link to casino insider .ca to our home page.

We had taken some 'free' buttons, not realising they came with that little extra. Usually we check the code but, in this case, phones ringing like made caused us to take our eye off the ball.

Our new web site would have got rid of this unwelcome extra... but it's a good idea to double check the code from time to time for 'foreign bodies'. We were lucky, it could have been far worse.

Many thanks to that kind person.
Ouch - just shows that free things on the web often come with hidden items - need to be careful.
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