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5:17 pm
September 14, 2011
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The College Investor
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Barb,
Your site is giving me that red warning that it is potentially a site attack! I don't know if you were hacked or something.
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5:34 pm
September 14, 2011
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My Personal Finance Journey
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5:39 pm
September 14, 2011
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Suba @ Wealth Informatics
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I was coming to post this. It tells me it potentially has malware. It redirects to some random website.
http://www.unmaskparasites.com…..inance.com
Retire By 40 had a similar problem a few weeks ago, he reinstalled wordpress. You might want to check with him to see if he has any tips on how to fix this.
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9:34 pm
September 14, 2011
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retireby40
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Hunter @ Financially Consumed had some problem around the same time also.
I was able to narrow down the problem with this scanner.
_http://www.unmaskparasites.com/security-report/?page=barbarafriedbergpersonalfinance.com/
When I run Barb's site through, it didn't flag anything though.
I reinstalled wordpress though the dashboard and it got rid of my problem. Later on, I reinstalled wordpress from scratch and changed theme to Atahualpa. (This was a PITA!.) From what I heard, some themes and plugins have vulnerability.
Google webmasters also has some tips on how to find malwares.
email me if you need some help. Or you can also hire a pro – pffirewall is a member and many people use his service.
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9:24 am
September 15, 2011
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Jeff @ Sustainable Life Blog
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Gah - that's no good. I had enough trouble getting everything the way I want it now.
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9:35 am
September 15, 2011
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Yea I checked out hunters page last night and saw this…I hope they both get it worked out soon.
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10:38 am
September 15, 2011
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Hunter @financiallyc
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@Justin- I'm not detecting problems with my site. GoDaddy says it is clear. When RB40 had issues last month I detected search engine poisoning on Google, which has been resolved. What are you seeing?
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11:18 am
September 15, 2011
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MoneyIsTheRoot
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I searched your site on google yesterday to +1 you, and it said something about site maintenance and to come back soon.
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12:17 pm
September 15, 2011
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retireby40
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I meant Financially Consumed had a problem about a month ago. I googled and +1 now and didn't see any issue.
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1:44 pm
September 15, 2011
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Derek@LifeAndMyFinances
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Scary. I'm glad there's quite a few members who know how to solve stuff like this! When my day comes, I know everyone will be just as helpful. Good luck Barb.
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1:47 pm
September 15, 2011
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Miss T @ Prairie Eco-Thrifter
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LifeAndMyFinances said:
Scary. I'm glad there's quite a few members who know how to solve stuff like this! When my day comes, I know everyone will be just as helpful. Good luck Barb.
Kudos to that. This network is always there when you need it no matter what. Good luck Barb. Hope it gets solved quickly.
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3:07 pm
September 15, 2011
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Hackers and viruses are getting more aggressive. I have had 2 or 3 viruses this year on my computer. I am going to run that unmask just to check. Thanks.
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3:27 pm
September 15, 2011
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Hunter @financiallyc
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@Justin – there was a problem with my Go Daddy redirect. It just disappeared? They had no idea why, or that I had previously set-up a redirect. Very strange. You should be able to use all the old links & familiar URL to get to FC now.
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7:09 pm
September 15, 2011
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Hunter @financiallyc
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HACKED: I received this from GoDaddy today
Dear Hunter,
Earlier this week, our Information Security Team
detected suspicious activity within your hosting account. The investigation
concluded someone had changed your .htaccess file in your home directory using
FTP. The attacking IP was blocked, and your original .htaccess file was restored
automatically.
I have asked GoDaddy to supply me with the attackers IP address.
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7:12 pm
September 15, 2011
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Miss T @ Prairie Eco-Thrifter
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That will be helpful. Then we can put them all in our black list for spam blockers.
Hunter @financiallyc said:
HACKED: I received this from GoDaddy today
Dear Hunter,
Earlier this week, our Information Security Team
detected suspicious activity within your hosting account. The investigation
concluded someone had changed your .htaccess file in your home directory using
FTP. The attacking IP was blocked, and your original .htaccess file was restored
automatically.
I have asked GoDaddy to supply me with the attackers IP address.
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9:16 pm
September 15, 2011
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Invest It Wisely
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I've seen this happen to Barb before :( hope everything can get fixed up!
Blacklists might not be ideal unless the IP originates in Russia or a place like that where you can be more certain it's probably the hackers — otherwise, might just be someone else with a hacked PC or someone running a Tor exit node or something.
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9:18 pm
September 15, 2011
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Invest It Wisely
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The easiest gateways for viruses that I've seen are MSN and Internet Explorer. So guys, if you don't need to use them… please don't! Chrome & Firefox are more secure, and you can use Gtalk from a web browser. Viruses on Windows are an unfortunate occurence but you can minimize your attack surface a great deal simply by tossing IE or at least making sure you're running the latest version.
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11:30 pm
September 15, 2011
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Briana @ How's Married Life?
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Things like this remind me to back up my information just in case. Hope everything goes well with Barb!
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6:40 am
September 16, 2011
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Sustainable PF
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Post edited 6:41 am – September 16, 2011 by Sustainable PF
Have we heard from Barb at all since this happened? I hope she is ok. I sent her an email.
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7:33 am
September 16, 2011
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Barbara Friedberg
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Hi All,
I am working with GoDaddy to get it cleared up. Hopefully I will be clean in a few hours. I'll keep you posted here. Thanks for your well wishes.
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