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Is this a google problem, an ad sonar(who were my alternative url) or have I been hacked-i.e. anyone else have this problem?
Can't e-mail google as I am at work and can't access my domain e-mail
[edited by: Jenstar at 12:48 pm (utc) on June 4, 2004]
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If so I would start with checking your own system for spyware and viruses.
The only change I made to my site was adding new google code because I had added a default url. It definitely isn't(trojans/virii) on my own machine as I work in a multi machine organisation and it only happened when my site is loaded.
Think I better e-mail adsense to let them know
[edited by: Jenstar at 12:50 pm (utc) on June 4, 2004]
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2. Check the page you have your alternate ad on, and see if there is a problem with the code, and if the problem occurs when viewing your alternate ad page.
3. Upload fresh copies of your affected pages, and see if the problem corrects itself.
I also suspect it is probably something on your machine itself. Have you already run a virus scan as well as something like Spybot/AdAware/HijackThis?
However, spybots can alter the way YOUR browser sees webpages, so that when you "view source" you see the way your browser has interpreted the data.
You never know, though... best to check everything. Also run Lavasoft Adaware 6.0 every other day or so.. or on startup.
MQ
I have just received an e-mail from my domain host. It appears they were hacked and this malicious code was placed on all domains that they hosted-which must have been quite a bit of work for the techs as they are manually deleting the code from each web site and each page!-thats service
[edited by: blairsp at 7:41 pm (utc) on June 4, 2004]
which must have been quite a bit of work for the techs as they are manually deleting the code from each web site and each page!-thats service
Hummn.. you'd better hope that they are doing more than just that! Usually, a complete system restore is in order after a hack, as it's virtually impossible to detect exactly how they got in and what critter they might have left lying around that would let them *back* in after all the work to restore..
Are you sure they are not just running a backup into your domain from a previous day, prior to the hack?
Shortz
A matter of "who benefits most of a crime" to start with a list of suspects. Of course then the ISP would need to prove that this indeed came from an associate with that company - hard, since anyone anywhere in the world could have done that - even without direct link to the company in case. But if this is an affiliate account, the company could simply terminate the affiliate, just to avoid this kind of problems in the future.
Common sense? Don't quote me, INAL.
an ad sonar(who were my alternative url) or have I been hacked-i.e. anyone else have this problem?
Are you allowed to have **** for alternative ads? Isn't this against the google TOS?
Its bloomin happened again (other thread). My hosting company appears to want us all to upload our pages again now. Jeez-somebody is probably making a fair bit from adsnese for doing nothing at the moment other than highjacking legitimate clicks
err... did you read my post? If all they did was manually remove the altered code on the pages, then the hacker was, likely, still able to access the server and do it over again..
In cases of hacks, unless your host is far smarter than the hacker, and or, very energitic and has a ton of time to search out every possible place that access tools may have been left by the hacker, then, you will get hacked again.. or, rather, you are *still* hacked..
Shortz
