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Old 01-18-2009 | 11:52 AM
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Default RE: Bruce Tharpe Engineering website hijacked


ORIGINAL: BruceTharpe

Holy carp! Just saw this post, and you're right. Well, you're right about the site being hijacked. I want everybody to know that I'm still very much in business. In fact, I did some updates to my site just yesterday. Can anybody shed some light on this hijacking business and how to correct it? Of course, I'll contact my hosting service and see what they can do about it...
Bruce,
Basically a hijack is somebody found a way to get into your website and they have changed the content that it is displaying. There are many different was this could have happened ranging from the simply guessing your password to exploiting a security weakness of the entire server in order to can control of the box.

However, as I type this message out I see it may actually be something a bit more innocent. I researched the website that is showing up when we enter your URL, and that site is mbreptiles.com. I appears that this site is also hosted by the same company that is hosting your site. More than likely they are hosted on the same webserver. This issue could simply be a configuration error in the host files for that box. Basically, a simply typo could be causing this error. Contact your hosting company immediately and they should be able to correct the mistake pretty quickly.

This type of error can and does happen from time to time. I run webservers and I've had the same thing happen once or twice.

Ken