My website was hijacked - something to look out for

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paolo
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My website was hijacked - something to look out for

Post by paolo »

Here is something I did not know could happen, and I don't know what it is called, but it feels like someone hijacked one of my websites.

I noticed a few weeks ago that my homepage was all in lower case, and made a mental note to fix it. That certainly wasn't how I designed it. Today when I opened it up in Dreamweaver I saw at the bottom of the page that these links had been added, but in such a way that they don't display, but a search engine spider can certainly see them:
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Each of these words linked to a very dodgy website.

The problem with this is that the search engines will probably penalise a site that links to such bad neighbourhoods.

This is something to look out for. Presumably they got access to my FTP details. Does anyone know more about this?
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Post by mvus »

Have you tried contacting your hosting company and ask if they can produce a log/record of recent ftp access?
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Post by A-two »

This may be completely unrelated, except that it also looks like a hosting problem, but I noticed a few days ago that http://laymyhat.com does not resolve to the same place as http://www.laymyhat.com . It should.

The other thing sounds like your host's servers were hacked, you may not be the only one. I'm sure they are aware of it.
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