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Posted by Youssef Ismail on April 4, 2010 at 3:31 PM
Last week a NPN member, Harold Ankney, visted my website and sent me a message that his antivirus software warned him that a trojan was on my site.

The message he got was that JS:Illredir-AE [Trj] Trojan was on my site.

I searched and found that my home page file had been hacked into and a small java script code had been added to it. It has now been removed and I want to apologize to anyone who might have been affected by it.

Further, I would like to ask if you folks who are brave enough to vistit my site and just see if your antivirus software brings up any red flags, mine does not. As far as I can tell, the site is clean.

Posted by Paul Breitkreuz on April 4, 2010 at 4:46 PM
Youssef, sorry to hear about the trouble. I visited the site and got no red flags from McAfee or Spyware Dr.
Good luck..... :smile:
Posted by Bill Chambers on April 4, 2010 at 9:26 PM
Visited your site and also received no warnings. Hopefully, you're free from the problem.
Posted by Dan Borzynski on April 4, 2010 at 11:33 PM
No problems here as well (using Norton). Its been a while since I've been you your website.
Posted by Harold Ankney on April 4, 2010 at 11:37 PM
Glad to see you found the nasty little bug and got rid of it. I went to your site and everything checks out okay.

Harold
Posted by Youssef Ismail on April 5, 2010 at 1:26 AM
Thank you all for the health check. Its a real pain when your site gets hacked. And for what? Thanks again.
Posted by SandyRichardsBrown on April 5, 2010 at 1:38 AM
no problems with Panda anti-virus eiyther. SO sorry you had to deal with this. I know what a mess it can be.
Sandy r
Posted by Paolo De Faveri on April 5, 2010 at 6:34 AM
It looks like you have successfully removed the malware Youssef, I had no warnings reported by my AVG internet security 9.0 (pro, full payed version). Btw, this gave me the opportunity to re-visit your site after a while. I spent a great half hour with your images.

Paolo
Posted by Bill Brennan on April 5, 2010 at 12:49 PM
Youssef, no warnings from Webroot.

Bill Brennan
Posted by Youssef Ismail on April 5, 2010 at 7:34 PM
Thanks again everyone for the help and the sense of security regained.