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Illegal Linking

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JoeHouse

2:39 am on Feb 6, 2004 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



Hello everyone

I am concerned. Recently I was at a friend's house and I visited my website that I own from his PC. To my surprise in the body of my own homepage text were keywords linking to another competitors website.

These keywords in my text contained no links just simple text which directly relates to my business.

However on my friends PC when I go to my site this same text is transposed into links directing my visitors to my competitors site.

This has to be illegal, right? Or is this some type of link linking service that I am not aware of? I have no idea how these links got on my site. I certainly did not give any permission allowing this!

I then proceeded to visit other homes of friends as well as work that had pc's and noticed that the homepage was fine, nothing appeared to be out of the ordinary.

It appears it might be a specific software/browser in which the stealing of traffic is occurring.

Has anyone else encounter this? Can someone offer me some sound advise to stop this?

Please Advise, extremely concerned!

plumsauce

2:49 am on Feb 6, 2004 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member




scumware(search for the term), is
targetting references to your site
because your friend has either installed
it voluntarily, or involunatrily.

balinor

2:58 am on Feb 6, 2004 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



This scared the crap outta me a few months back as well. A client called and screamed at me for having all sorts of links in his site. I looked and had no idea what he was talking about. Sure enough, scumware.

rcjordan

3:10 am on Feb 6, 2004 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member


Tell him to start here:
http://doxdesk.com/parasite/

He'll need adaware, spybot S&D, and (perhaps) hijackthis.