On 23 July 2009 my website was hacked into.
The result was that some malware was put into the code of my theme of my website. This activated links to hundreds of pornographic sites whenever I uploaded new material.
Recently I have been quite busy uploading new pages about my blogging beginners self-help e-courses, so all my activities had been blasting off all this pornographic stuff left right and centre throughout the net.
I do have a wonderful brother who is a wizard in website programming, and he worked his magic behind the scenes, locating and removing the malware. Let’s just hope it doesn’t have secondary programming to reappear again later.
Meanwhile I have tried to submit my website for reconsideration by Google. I have contacted my server and have closed all my FTP access (which I will have to temporarily open every time I want to upload something). That was the back door that was wide open and allowed the hacker in.
So check all the portals of your website to make sure they are secure. Change all your passwords to everything regularly and use combinations of letters, numbers and punctuation to make them stronger.
Keep an eye out for anything suspicious or out of the ordinary with your website. This malware was totally invisible on my website, so it was the fact that I couldn’t see my theme that alerted me that something was wrong, but only after all the damage had been done.
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So what did you do specifically to stop the intrusion?
By the way, I can hardly see what I’m typing. The font is small and faded a lot.
Hi Don, I had to use my wonderful brother to cast his magic in the background scenes of my blog to get rid of the malware and make my blog visible on the web again. It’s still not right, as you can see when you tried to write your comment – you’re not the first to complain that the font is too small. This is something to do with my theme, and I will have to consult my brother to see if anything can be done about it.