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Help! I am worried My Site is Compromised!

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3:31 pm
February 12, 2011


brokeprofessionals

New Jersey

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Ok, so today I tried to download a "free" button from http://www.buttongenerator.com/.  (Button Generator.Com).  I added the budget as a widget (it gave a little bit of code that was supposed to be a specialized button for your site).  That did not work, instead there was a flashing and crude looking button that only linked back to button generator.com.  It stayed for a while even after I got rid of the text widget it was house in.  Eventually it seemed to go away for good.  But I started to freak out, despite the site not appearing from google searches to be inherently illegitimate (as far as I can tell).  

 

Now, when I ran a pingdam tools speed search on my site (www.brokeprofessionals.com) I keep noticing this 70.5 KB and is titled under the tool as:  brokeprofessionals.com/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.js? ver=1.4.2    I can not find what this is or its function or if it is the sign of a site infection, etc., or not.  Anyone with knowledge of these things know if I should be worried or not?  Other than the button staying it appears that site functionality is as normal.  

 

I am pretty much freaking out.  

 

Thanks,

BP

4:36 pm
February 12, 2011


SavingMentor

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Well, I'm not sure if you know but jquery is a very standard JavaScript library that is used for all kinds of things including potentially your theme or various plugins you might have installed. I can't say your site isn't compromised or that this button you downloaded isn't doing something bad with jquery … but jquery in and of itself is 100% fine.

4:54 pm
February 12, 2011


brokeprofessionals

New Jersey

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It seems that everything is running smoothly, but if anyone notices anything off with my site, etc., please let me know.  I do not know enough about this type of stuff at this point to know for sure if everything is alright or not.  I have to learn more about the technical side of blogging.  Before I started this blog two months ago I had zero experience so it has been interesting, to say the least.  Thanks for the advice.  If anyone else knows anything more on the subject, please let me know!  Thanks.

8:27 pm
February 12, 2011


Khaleef @ KNS Financial

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brokeprofessionals said:

It seems that everything is running smoothly, but if anyone notices anything off with my site, etc., please let me know.  I do not know enough about this type of stuff at this point to know for sure if everything is alright or not.  I have to learn more about the technical side of blogging.  Before I started this blog two months ago I had zero experience so it has been interesting, to say the least.  Thanks for the advice.  If anyone else knows anything more on the subject, please let me know!  Thanks.


I did notice earlier (when I left a comment) that when I refreshed your page, the sidebar was on the left side. I'm use to you having it on the right side, but I just figured that you were testing out a new design or something.

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9:32 pm
February 12, 2011


brokeprofessionals

New Jersey

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Yeah I was trying to get rid of the "button".   I am going to call this a false alarm I guess.  Thanks guys.

10:05 pm
February 13, 2011


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It looks fine to me

 

 

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