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Subject: RE: [Leica] OT: Help, my web site has been hijacked!
From: "Steve Unsworth" <mail@steveunsworth.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 10:17:24 -0000

Nathan

I also had the 'offer' of the download when I visited your site. Sorry
but I don't know how to remove it (or know how it would have got there
in the first place).

Regards

Steve


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From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Nathan
Wajsman
Sent: 13 February 2004 05:12
To: LUG
Subject: [Leica] OT: Help, my web site has been hijacked!


Yesterday, a Dutch LUGger told me that upon visiting my web site, he was
offered to install a "free porn" toolbar or something like that,
immediately upon arriving at the main page. I was shocked and would like
first of all to inform everyone that this is NOT something I have
initiated. I have since tested it myself at work and at home, and sure
enough--you come to my site and look at the contents in the normal way,
but in the background a download and installation program is running. My
hosting service (Dot5Hosting in the UK) is being quite useless about it
and claims that they see nothing. But since I am able to replicate the
problem on two different computers, I can only conclude that the problem
is on their end. Has something like this ever happened to you, what is
the technique that the crooks used, and most importantly, what can I do
to get rid of this (short of taking my site down)?

Many thanks for any advice you might have.

Nathan
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Nathan Wajsman
Almere, The Netherlands

e-mail: n.wajsman@chello.nl
Mobile: +31 630 868 671

Photo site: http://www.wajsmanphoto.com/index.htm
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