Questions tagged [virus]
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My Websites were hacked - how to remove virus?
I help my parents run their appliance repair business. They have a few websites in GoDaddy which use Wordpress. Recently I noticed they have been hacked. If someone goes to the website through Google, ...
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Cloudflare Pending validation error due to VirusTotal
My domain (quảcầu.cc/xn--qucu-hr5aza.cc) couldn't receive certification due to an error:
When I checked with VirusTotal, only one security vendor flagged this URL as malicious. The rest flagged it ...
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Wordpress database (backup) .sql file got a Trojan category malware treat. Says ESET Internet Security when i try to download the file. What to do?
This is the first time this has happened to me. I'm attaching the screenshot of the message I got about the threat. Also here is the link that ESET software shows me for more info about this.
I ran ...
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Google Chrome anti-virus checks take too long for downloads from our site. Can it be bypassed or sped up?
I host a windows software website. I noticed that new version of Google Chrome checks downloaded files presumably for viruses and it takes about 10-20 seconds to complete.
Is there any way to white ...
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How could viruses/malware launch from websites in user environment? [closed]
I'm familiar with web frontend only superficially.
However I'm wondering how is it possible to inject virus on the web site and cause it to run in the user environment (PC) only by visiting specific ...
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Customer's financials compromised - they think it was my site [closed]
Sorry for the title, this is a confusing problem and I wasn't sure how to make the title succinct.
The background:
I have a client's website which sell products. The purchasing is all done through ...
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Google searched links (to a site I administer) are redirecting users to fake websites
I'm quite stumped here as I am not an expert when it comes to scripts..
Some users, searching for a product which my website provides, get presented with genuine links such as "https://www.brewcraft....
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Has my website got a virus?
Building a website for a customer and as I sent him a link on Skype to the new page, he said he got alerted of a trojan virus. He clicked on the link on Skype and it opened in IE, he sent me a ...
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Google search console reports gymweb.it malware detected, but I can't find any trace of it on my site
I have a site that keeps getting flagged by Google as containing malware of some sort. Report here
We've used a site ripper and downloaded the HTML/Images/CSS/JS and then searched for the term gymweb....
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CloudFlare and Avast strict transport
This weekend, we started using CloudFlare*.
One of our users is reporting that Avast, the anti-virus software, has blocked our site due to a certificate error.
Presumably this is because our ...
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WordPress site hacked, recovered but Google still has hacked page description [duplicate]
My website got hacked recently and recovered it. It was populating casino ads on my website. There were virtually made URLs where casino pages were displayed.
I suspected the code came through a ...
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Best practise for a web designer after a client's website is hacked?
Our client's website content was hacked with text that promotes gambling and 'binary options' websites.
Examples are:
"If you are looking for binary or forex trading or brokers have a look at ...
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How to scan files for malware as they are uploaded to the website?
My website got hacked, and I was able to locate the bad scripts the hacker entered and remove them.
I am aware that there are services available to scan your site for malware. I was wondering if ...
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Sophos is blocking my site - how do I remove it from their list?
I've had a call from a client who says a visitor cannot access their site as a virus protection program called Sophos is blocking it, saying it will steal information.
I've scanned the site with ...
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How to get rid of spam that sends from clients own email address?
I've Googled everywhere for a solution for this, but though the same issue appears to be happening to a lot of people, I havent found anything that helped.
Several of my clients are receiving loads ...
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Weird popup/malware showing on my website
Can someone please help me figure out what this is? It looks like some ad pops on my website for no reason when opening website through Google search results.
I've tried looking in the code and ...
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Malware/Viruses on Server
I was contacted yesterday for a potential freelance job. The guy told me he has a WordPress site and that his host told him was hacked and there are code injected files in the install. The host has ...
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.htaccess keeps being deleted from my root directory
I have a site built on the ModX Evo CMS. I have noticed that almost every day the .htaccess file is deleted meaning the FURLs no longer work. I have scanned for viruses and found nothing. Does anyone ...
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JQuery Plugin files getting viruses even with CHMOD 755
I have a bunch of JQuery plugins (eg: masonry, isotope, carousel, etc) within a JavaScript folder in my root. These have been repeatedly infected with viruses making Google put alerts on my site.
The ...
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Google says my site has malware but nothing comes up in Webmaster Tools
A few days ago my site was infected with Malware. I've sinced removed it and all is well. However, logging into the back end of my CMS I get the malware warning again.
I've followed the instructions ...
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Need help in removing and forbidding some kind of malware in my website [closed]
I have a website based on Joomla 2.5. Recently people with AVG anti-virus started to complain that some strange windows appear when they open the site. An unknown line of code with comments "Google ...
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Site got hacked while many / all security leaks have been removed [closed]
I've got a website with this code appended to my php document :
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How to remove adware pop up?
I get an ad pop up that should not be on the site. It has only appeared once.
The HTML code for the pop up window that appeared:
http://pastie.org/5674909
Here is the full HTML pastie:
http://...
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Effects of Active Virus Scanner on WebApp for XS Azure VM
Suppose a public WebApp is hosted on an EXtra Small (XS) Azure Virtual Machine (VM). What benefits and/or performance problems might visitors experience if a Memory-Resident Virus Scanner is run on ...
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Problem uploading files, access denied via cPanel, while not in FTP
I have problem with uploading my files via cPanel but it works by FileZilla (FTP). It was said:
upload canceled: VIRUS DETECTED (Access Denied, ERROR).
I have tried uploading files via cPanel using ...
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Hidden Trojan on my wesbite - How to find it?
I have a big problem. Kaspersky says my website is infected with trojan. So I downloaded all my website and run a scan and it was clean. I also did a clamav on it and it was clean too.
So next thing ...
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Users often say my website is infected, but can't find any evidence of this?
I run a niche community and we have lots of users with very little experience, so it's hard to decide, sometimes, whether this is just a problem with amateurs butting heads with their virus software, ...
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How did this malicious code get into a site? [closed]
This question was recently posed on another forum I am apart of.
Two sites that the person maintains had malicious code on the site the code is as follows:
<script>var date=new Date();...
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Website flagged by antivirus software
I operate a file hosting site, and recently I've found that some antivirus software have flagged it as malicious due to a few nasty files people have uploaded.
Obviously I don't want my site to be ...
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is it google webmaster crawler's fault or a virus?
Last day when i visited google webmaster tools, i found crawler errors for 42 not found pages. all the pages were having "luminous-solutions.net" at last in the URL. Like
http://article-stack.com/...
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