my host says my box is infected and told me to read this

If your site has been infected with malicious iframe inserts and has been flagged on Google, you most likely have a virus on your PC. These exploits can keylog and steal FTP passwords, and use FTP to modify your files. This is _not_ a server exploit, it is your PC that is infected, or the PC of someone who has access to your account details. Here are the steps you can take to (hopefully) clean your PC.

1. Ensure you are using a _quality_ Anti Virus application. Avira (http://www.avira.com) and Avast (http://www.avast.com) are excellent free virus scan that detect these types of infections. Kaspersky (http://www.kaspersky.com) is an excellent paid AV app, and has a free online java scanner. If you are using AVG Free, or another free AV app, we reccomend you remove it first and then install Avira or a paid AV app. We also reccomend you install Malware Bytes (http://www.malwarebytes.com) or another quality Spyware scanner.

3. Once you have the above complete ensure these applications have the latest updates, and are set to auto update daily. Most should do this automatically, but you should check and make sure.

3. Do a quick scan with the AV and spyware apps. This should detect any running applications that are malicious or suspicious. Remove or quarantine them. Once the scan completes, you should reboot your PC and do a full system scan with the AV and spyware apps when that completes. Hopefully at this point your PC is clean. If not, you may want to consider a clean install of your PC, or search for more in depth exploit removal methods that are not covered here.

4. Provided your system is clean at this point, upgrade your Flash player. This is the most likely source of the compromise. You can do so here: http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/


5. Ensure your PC is set to automatically update daily and has all the most recent updates installed. If you use Firefox, ensure it's set to automatically update as well. If your operating system did not come from a reputable source you should consider purchasing a genuine copy or consider some of the freely available alternatives.

6. Change all of your passwords. Not just your passwords for your Amerinoc FTP accounts, but every single online account you have be it Outlook email, Web based email, your internet banking, your MSN accounts, and so on. Once your system has been compromised with a keylogger/password sniffer you must presume someone has access to all of them and it's only a matter of time before they realize it and begin exploiting it. Use _quality_ passwords. You can google "choosing a password" to find dozens of resources about this.



7. Be proactive. Change your passwords regularly, keep your systems up to date.

Damn, after reading all of the rules I am quite frankly afraid to submit to your site. As I understand it, if my newb self doesn't somehow meet your standards then I am going to be blacklisted everywhere. Just saying.

Do you take gallery submits?

oh get real, those rules are years old and I take galleries, on the tgp side of my site

I think it´s a shining example of a good rules page and he don´t have more rules than anybody else and his attitude is one of the friendliest I have seen in the LL/TGP circus |thumb

Hey Plateman, what's up with adding that code thing at the end of the description. I keep forgetting to do that..you usually list me anyhow, so thanks, but just wondering what the code was for.

LD that's something I started years ago to catch autosubmitters