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Help with antivirus hack - from search engines
Old 08-28-2008, 06:56 PM Help with antivirus hack - from search engines
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ok, i apologize in advance if this is in the wrong section (which it probably is, but i dont know where else to post it), please move wherever appropriate.

My website's (ps-garage.com) gallery was virus infected a couple months ago - mainly because the version was outdated, the virus disappeared once i updated the gallery.

But the weird thing is the virus still remains - not in my website - but right outside my website. If you google my website and click on the search results, your browser will close and become a box like this:

so then you do the classic ctrl+alt+shift delete and close task, open firefox again, and start new session...

im totally mind-boggled about this - i couldnt find anything on google, and i have absolutely no clue on how to attack this. I've contacted my web host customer service and they cant seem to help me either.

so, fellow webmasters, how would you solve this?


Thank you very much!!!
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Old 08-28-2008, 07:48 PM Re: Help with antivirus hack - from search engines
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That's not a virus, but it's a malicious hijack.

Firefox would NEVER tell you to download a particular antivirus. If they ever did, they woudn't write a popup messagebox that says "100 % FREE" in it.

Somewhere in your page load event (or processing) is code that says Alert('a whole bunch of spam goes here'); in it. It's probably in an external js file to make it harder to remove.

You do not have a virus. Your site has been hijacked, but it's a code change, not a viral infection.
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Old 08-28-2008, 10:28 PM Re: Help with antivirus hack - from search engines
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oh man, thank you so much John!!!
million thanks!

took me forever to fix this problem - apparently it was some file pretending to me .htaccess sorta thing, it had the .mal extension, deleted it, and its all good now.

THANKS!
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