Over the last week there have been some bad happenings here at KT.\u00a0 About a week ago our site was compromised and those lovely spammers\/hackers\/criminals had some fun leaving a few viruses and malware on our site.\u00a0 We have since cleaned up their mess and locked the door they came in through.\u00a0 I can tell you it is a lovely way to spend your free time.\u00a0 So matters were handled and it appeared things were getting back to normal.\u00a0 Guess again.\u00a0 It seems Google crawled our site shortly after it was compromised and finding viruses and malware marked our site as “This Site May Harm Your Computer”!\u00a0 This was discovered today.\u00a0 Our traffic has all bust come to a stop because of this lovely warning and the fact that Firefox 3 which was released a week ago actually blocks an attempt to visit our site!\u00a0 It not only blocks your visit it scares the pants off of you!!\u00a0 It scared me and it’s my site…I was wondering if I should trust myself…<\/p>\n
Now I am not saying that some of these measures are not good things, but I can’t help but feel that my house was broken into and the police showed up and arrested me for burglary!\u00a0 Now I need to prove that I am in fact innocent.\u00a0 Not a nice feeling for someone who grew up thinking you were innocent until proven guilty.\u00a0 I’ve read a lot of reports of people having similar problems and quiet frankly they are mad at Google.\u00a0 Personally I think what Google is doing is a good idea that is implemented poorly.\u00a0 Yes the great Google got it wrong.\u00a0 I think in cases like mine their service is invaluable to alerting you to the fact that you have a problem with your site.\u00a0 Having dealt with these types of problem I can tell you that finding the problem is often difficult because these criminal types are good at hiding their work.\u00a0 But perhaps when Google finds a problem like this they could fire off a warning email to the site owner to give them a chance to clean things up (since I doubt they even know they have a problem).\u00a0 With all of Google’s resources this would not cause them any harm, it’s just a suggestion.<\/p>\n
I’ll report back on how easy or not it is to get this scarlet letter removed from my site.\u00a0 In the mean time I am going to ponder the thought that the Internet is quickly becoming a playground only for the rich and the rich corporations who can employ full time staff to catch these problems before Google does.<\/p>\n
And to the Hackers\/Spammers\/Defacers\/Malware-ers I hope to see you in the ring real soon…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Over the last week there have been some bad happenings here at KT.\u00a0 About a week ago our site was compromised and those lovely spammers\/hackers\/criminals had some fun leaving a few viruses and malware on our site.\u00a0 We have since cleaned up their mess and locked the door they came in through.\u00a0 I can tell