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About a month ago, the office PC was hacked and all clients' Control Panel and FTP details were taken by the Chinese (the iFrames all had .cn). It took a week to clear and everything was fine, with password security severely tightened. Except today another client informed me that he has had the same treatment, this time from the Russians.
If you do find one of your sites has been attacked, clear the malware, change system and FTP passwords, go to Webmaster's Tools, grab the code and then verify. This helps, but Google's attack report will still hang around for quite some time.
If you need to check, there's quite a useful report on a site's status at http://google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=http://www.yoursite.com
Interestingly, TechCrunch published an article in January this year titled Google Flags Whole Internet As Malware, in which search results, including Google?s own websites, started being flagged as malware with a message stating "This site may harm your computer".
One comment on this was: "This also highlights how much of a de facto monopoly Google seems to have on the whole of the Internet. It is starting to get scary. We really need some more competition in this space. I call on all engineers during this downturn who may have some great innovative ideas to try to create some real competition for Google".
As irony has it, it was not so much engineers but the bold initiative of Carol Bartz, as one news outlet put it: "the bumpy, marathon mating dance between Microsoft and Yahoo finally concluded on Wednesday, when the two companies announced a partnership in Internet search and advertising to take on the industry powerhouse Google."
If you do find one of your sites has been attacked, clear the malware, change system and FTP passwords, go to Webmaster's Tools, grab the code and then verify. This helps, but Google's attack report will still hang around for quite some time.
If you need to check, there's quite a useful report on a site's status at http://google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=http://www.yoursite.com
Interestingly, TechCrunch published an article in January this year titled Google Flags Whole Internet As Malware, in which search results, including Google?s own websites, started being flagged as malware with a message stating "This site may harm your computer".
One comment on this was: "This also highlights how much of a de facto monopoly Google seems to have on the whole of the Internet. It is starting to get scary. We really need some more competition in this space. I call on all engineers during this downturn who may have some great innovative ideas to try to create some real competition for Google".
As irony has it, it was not so much engineers but the bold initiative of Carol Bartz, as one news outlet put it: "the bumpy, marathon mating dance between Microsoft and Yahoo finally concluded on Wednesday, when the two companies announced a partnership in Internet search and advertising to take on the industry powerhouse Google."