Where did all those links come from?

Report · Oct 31, 2008

I have just got my dreamweaver up and running on my mac, I could not get my site to look right using my back up file which come from my old PC. So i have just finished running a 'Get File(s)', now all my files have been copied down to my Mac.
I have opened my 'index.html' file and at the bottom of the page in dreamweaver the page contains a long list of random hyperlinks there is over a.
I have checked my website front page ( www.Essex2Let.co.uk ) and these links do not exist at the bottom of the web page so that is good news.

Does anyone have any ideas why this has occurred??

I will look forward in hearing from you.

Regards

Report · Oct 31, 2008

Essex2Let.co.uk wrote:
> I have checked my website front page ( www.Essex2Let.co.uk ) and these links
> do not exist at the bottom of the web page so that is good news.

Right-click and view the source code. There are hundreds of links for drugs.

> Does anyone have any ideas why this has occurred??

Your site has been hacked.

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Report · Oct 31, 2008

David Powers wrote:
> Essex2Let.co.uk wrote:
>> I have checked my website front page ( www.Essex2Let.co.uk ) and
>> these links do not exist at the bottom of the web page so that is good
>> news.
>
> Right-click and view the source code. There are hundreds of links for
> drugs.
>
>> Does anyone have any ideas why this has occurred??
>
> Your site has been hacked.

I have had this happen in the last couple of weeks to my personal site.
My host reckons they made the changes by ftp so had somehow got my
username and password... they think they guessed it, which is possible,
but personally I think they have a security issue with the site, as my
pages were just html, nothing which could cause a security issue. I am
going to change hosts.

Dooza