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Protect Your Blog from iframe Malicious Programs..!

Is your blog safe? Or hacked by some malicious Trojan horse? You can’t answer until you open and see your code and control panel. Heard that many of the blogs are hacked by some Trojan horse and resulted in click fraud. This led to Adsense account blocking.

All most all the attacked blogs resembles the same behavior. That is symptoms like sudden increase in traffic, increase in AdSense revenue and etc… I read some of the blogging gurus telling not to see the stats daily either blogging or revenue stats. That may lead to failure in finding the things before the damage.

I always recommend monitoring your traffic and revenue daily. If you found any sudden increase in either of them, immediately contact your Hosting provider and AdSense team. By this way you can prevent the damage to certain extent.

By the way, on the account of all these news on forums, I contacted my hosting provider to update the things on these account blockages and viruses and asked the suggestions to protect myself. I got few replies from the team, which made me stranger.

They gave some information and links to educate ourselves. That made me to prepare this long post, here is all the information and links I got…

Info Source 1:

Make sure you have correct permissions for your website files. Also keep changing passwords every week with secure ones. Few of the issues we found with some sites hosted in our server is discussed at following link. Problems occurred due to customer set wrong permissions to their website files. So be careful, and go through the article at following link. Hacking occurs with customers who use crack and patch in their local computer. When they run cracks or patches, gets infected with Trojan and which steals passwords. These stolen passwords are further used for hacking and modifying web pages. These are little information and examples.
http://www.softpanorama.org/Malware/Malicious_web/malicious_iframe_attack.shtml

Info Source 2:

Only point to remember is, Do not give write permission for files which doesn’t need it. Many times, instead of giving write permission for few necessary files/folders, we have noticed, people give full control permission for all files. This is done because of laziness or not aware of issues related to such actions. Usually for all files need only read permission to public. If you give write permission, using some Tools, hackers can alter your site files without logging into ftp or your account. What they usually do is insert iframe code or java script code to distribute malicious programs to the visitor’s computers. When Google finds such sites which distributes malicious code, includes in black list. Another important point is keep your web applications up to date with all security patches or updates applied. Hacker’s uses well know vulnerabilities in popular open source application, if you don’t update them periodically.

Tool to scan your blog for iframe detection:

You don’t need to manually check for iframe viruses.Here is a tool to scan your website …

  1. Open Novirusthanks
  2. Enter you URL (Ex:http://techzoomin.com)
  3. Click on Scan URL to check your site safety

Thanks to Ricky for sharing this tool.

Long post, but must read one. Read everything to sit out of the block room. Be secure and be happy. Had any info on this? Please do share with us! Happy Blogging!!

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