[TenTec] Steve Hunts web site

Jerry Haigwood jerry at w5jh.net
Wed Sep 14 13:00:11 PDT 2011


Glad you got it figured out.
Jerry W5JH

-----Original Message-----
From: tentec-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:tentec-bounces at contesting.com]
On Behalf Of Steve Hunt
Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 2:31 PM
To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Steve Hunts web site

Folks,

This was the problem:

On the host GoDaddy USA  server, at the level above my "karinya" domain, 
the .htaccess file had been attacked and changed so that it pointed to a 
malware site. It had been done cleverly so that normal visitors were not 
re-directed to the malware site, but anyone visiting from a Google 
referral *was*. That meant anyone accessing the site directly - for 
example someone trying to track down the problem - would think all was well.

Google did *not* find any malware on my site - it simply spotted the 
re-direction to a malware site. But to be sure I will probably now 
re-upload the whole of my site from a known clean local copy.

The top level .htaccess file has now been restored and the password 
access - which was already pretty strong - made even stronger.

I'm confident the site is now OK, but it may take a while for the 
changes to be reflected on Google.

73,
Steve G3TXQ
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