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| | The Minding Your Own Business Network is not currently active and cannot accept new posts | | Help with Hacker Issue | Views: 661 | | Mar 17, 2006 1:31 pm | | Help with Hacker Issue | # | 
Jan Verhoeff | | I've suddenly been hit by a massive hacker attack.
From my blogger sites to my yahoo group sites, they are disappearing as if they were never there (but the cached sites are still showing that I was). It's making me think I'm crazy.
The first and primary one that has been taken is my http://makemoneyhere.blogspot.com --- it's been reopened by someone new - who even had the audacity to use the same title "Make Money Online" on the page.
It was making me several hundred dollars a month on google adsense. (I need that income.)
I've notified Google/Blogger, but I'm not hearing back from them --- any suggestions?
I hope someone has a solution - fast.
Jan
Private Reply to Jan Verhoeff | | Mar 17, 2006 1:45 pm | | re: Help with Hacker Issue | # | 
D Kai Wilson | | Firstly, ensure your email address and home computer are secure. do a virus scan, keylogger scan 'etc' and make sure that everything is YOURS. Once you have, change your passwords - if you can do so, do it from a computer NOT attached to your own until you can verify your own comptuer is safe.
Once you've done that, contact your host and ask for verification that your site is secure - if they are running up to date software etc, they should be able to tell you it is.
Make sure that you're the only one logging IN to your site stuff - you can usually ask your host how to check this.
All I can suggest beyond that is contact the site admins, and explain, in depth, what is happeneing, and ask if they can help.
You may have to be patient, but its the only solution I can see.
Kai
http://kaiberie.comPrivate Reply to D Kai Wilson | | Mar 28, 2006 6:35 pm | | re: Help with Hacker Issue | # | 
Denise O'Berry | | Jan --
As far as your blogspot blog, just keep trying. I don't think it was hacked. I think it was a victim of Google's mass deleting effort they've been undertaking lately. I've heard about way too many blogspot blogs this has happened to.
Heck I just heard today about someone's 77 year old grandmother's family history blog being deleted. And on top of that, Google even "accidentally" deleted their own blogspot blog -- read more here http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/03/and-were-back.html and here http://www.bloggersblog.com/cgi-bin/bloggersblog.pl?bblog=328062
Plus I put a call out to another of my lists and heard this sad story -- http://susanreynolds.blogs.com/artist/2005/12/my_blogger_blog.html After six months she still did not have a resolution.
Sorry to be the deliverer of bad news. Your best bet is to get a non-blogger blog, but I'm sure you know that now.
Best regards,
Denise O'Berry
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http://www.justforsmallbusiness.comPrivate Reply to Denise O'Berry | | Mar 28, 2006 8:25 pm | | re: Help with Hacker Issue | # | 
steve solem | | Jan,
I'm sorry to hear about your problems with Blogger, and I hope you can work things out with them to get your site back online.
I have to agree with Denise though and say you'd be much better of having your own blog on your own server, and I'd also recommend getting your own unique domain name too.
Most web hosting accounts these days make it super easy to install a great blog system like WordPress and hosting shouldn't cost you more than about $10 a month.
If you decide to go with WP and need any help, just let me know. I've installed it for many sites I've done and it's really great to work with.
Cheers,
Steve Solem
www.ravedesigns.comPrivate Reply to steve solem | | Mar 28, 2006 9:33 pm | | re: re: Help with Hacker Issue | # |
D Kai Wilson | | Most web hosting accounts these days make it super easy to install a great blog system like WordPress and hosting shouldn't cost you more than about $10 a month.
Oh please! I personally offer hosting for around half that, with wordpress blogs installed and running fine. If you're paying $10 a month for ONE domain, you really have to question what you're getting out of it. Average hosting nowadays on a good quality server is around $7 a month - I personally charge less because I cover my own tech support and have very few overheads, so don't see why I need to charge more than I do :)
If you're moving off to another blog and your hosting supports it, I'd HIGHLY reccomend wordpress - I love working with wordpress blogs and have lots of tips, tricks and bits of kit that I can share with anyone interested.
Kai
http://thewritershost.comPrivate Reply to D Kai Wilson | | Mar 28, 2006 9:57 pm | | re: re: re: Help with Hacker Issue | # |
Denise O'Berry | | You bet. Wordpress is the only way to go in my opinion. I have about five (or so) wordpress sites now. Love it. So easy to use.
And you're right about the hosting. It is minuscule at best now. At my hosting company I can get 25 domains hosted for about $16 a month. That's not even a dollar a domain. Plus since I pay annually it's even better. That's not a reseller account either.
I remember back "in the old days" when I was paying $50 a month for a single domain (and that was cheap). I'm sure glad supply and demand helped us out in that area.
Best regards,
Denise O'Berry
Network LeaderPrivate Reply to Denise O'Berry | | Mar 28, 2006 11:04 pm | | re: re: re: re: Help with Hacker Issue | # |
Jan Verhoeff | | The only reason I believed it to be hacked by a hacker is that the site opened up with the SAME TITLE (which was different than the site id) within minutes of the time it was taken down.
I reopened most of the blogs - there on blogger. But I've got my own site domain and I'd like to open a blog there. Word press will probably be the choice I go with.
Is there a specific programming I need to use, or can I just use a blog basic and post to my blog on my site?
Jan Verhoeff
www.janverhoeff.com
Private Reply to Jan Verhoeff | | Mar 28, 2006 11:26 pm | | re: re: re: re: re: Help with Hacker Issue | # |
D Kai Wilson | | Uhm...ok, cause its late and I'm dense, I'm going to answer both answers I came up with :) If I got the wrong end of the stick, sorry for being so verbose.
Wordpress (http://wordpress.org) is software you install on your server. You can also sign up and play with a wordpress blog for free at http://wordpress.com
If your host has fantastico on cpanel, you can install it in one click, but I don't think its the up to date version. Installing it IS NOT complicated though.
To post to your blog, you can either go to your blog (through the place you install it /wp-admin and post on there or use anything like semagic (http://semagic.sourceforge.net/ - which is also (primarily) for livejournal) or Qumana - (http://qumana.com) to post from your desktop. Both of which take a little configuring but are quite neat.
In fact anything that mentions the use of xml.rpc works quite well with wordpress, but depending on your technical proficiency can be a bit of a pain to use.
Kai
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