has my site been hijacked?

inurl search in Google reveals a .proxy version

[Pro_Editor]

I did an inurl search for my site in Google and found this: www.mysite.com.proxy.example.de

When I click on it, I get an internal server error (500), but there is also an invitation from G to translate the site from German (my site is located in the US and written in English).

Does anyone know what this is, what to do about it, and what the fallout might be? Am I penalized by G for dup content if it is up and working, penalized if not working, etc.?

[edited by: jatar_k at 7:19 pm (utc) on April 6, 2006]
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[Pro_Editor]

Update: today this URL produces a proxy page with a thumbnail of my site on it. I am assuming this is a spammer trick, that this jerk puts this proxy page up long enough to get some traffic and plants cookies on the visitor machines to use their computers to spread e-mail (there are worse possibilities, but I am choosing to be in denial about it at this point).

There is a contact location on another web site from this page, but the certificate is funky according to MS and so I am not comfortable checking further. So, I have asked my site host to contact this jerk (no word yet), and I am sending a spam report to Google in the hope they'll so something (not much chance of that, I suppose).

That said, any insight into what I am experiencing would be greatly appreciated.

[jomaxx]

It's just a proxy that reads your page and converts it into hackerese. It's kind of a goof; I don't think there's anything malevolent going on, although they really shouldn't let Google spider the proxied URLs.

I don't use the inurl function much, but I think the reason that site shows up in your request is that they actually put your domain name in their URL. I don't know if there's a way to remove the page, but it might help to display a random page from your site, check your logs to see what IP address the proxy uses, and block it.

[Pro_Editor]

But if there is nothing malevolent going on, what is the purpose for somebody to do this? And wouldn't you think that G might be hammering me for dup content because of the variation on the URL that includes a thumbnail of my site as well as a link to my actual page?

[jomaxx]

I just noticed that they do use a robots.txt file to block spiders. That's why, in the examples I saw, Google had listed the URL only but displayed no content.

I have seen a few proxy sites listed in Google that DO show the identical content as my own, and I definitely block those. As for this, like I said they probably set it up as a joke.

[Pro_Editor]

Thanks for the info. Just heard from my site host that they are looking into it, but alas, they are not all that on the ball in most regards so I have my doubts they'll figure this out. But if not, I will definitely block the IP. Thanks again.