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There are some evil people around who simply love to hack in to servers and sites and screw things up for the rest of us!

One of these kind persons hacked my server a couple of days ago, and while no serious damage was done the time spent fixing the broken files could have been spent doing something more productive.

Now this wasn’t one of those ‘let’s break everything, deface the site and tell everyone about it’ type of attacks, oh no!

This one was far more subtle and consisted of changing a number of HTML files to add hidden links to a load of porn and sales sites.

No-one would even know that the pages had been changed unless they looked at the source code.

The main effect was to add loads of hidden one way links that the search engines would pick up on to rank these sites more highly. Sneaky and highly effective until they are found out.

Luckily for me I use a program called AVG Suite which has a surf shield program built in. When I accessed one of my own site pages it informed me that there were links to suspect sites present, which is when I checked more closely and found the problem.

Which goes to prove a point, if you do not have a good anti-virus and firewall program set up on your computer you are very vulnerable to attack… good old AVG, one of my better investments




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