Re: Garden Website Hacked According to Google

**D* G* <g*@gmail.com>**

MP - it's no big issue for us to change a few links (the software
immediately identified all pages) but Terra Nova has a problem on their
hands with the malware and getting Google to free up their site.  They
haven't blocked them yet on their search engine (sometimes they actively
identify the search results with a malware note) but when/if you click on a
TerraNova link, you clearly get a warning.    The updates are still active
as of this morning - Google believes the site is infected on an index today.

Doug

On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 7:50 AM, Mary Palmer Dargan <mpdargan@dargan.com>wrote:

> Dear Doug, What a pity and inconvenience for you and terrible for Terra
> Nova. I like their products so much. I've sent info on this to my VA so she
> can add it to my Wordpress hosted site. Thx for the heads up.
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Jan 3, 2013, at 7:25 AM, Doug Green <gardeningemail@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > When I said I would add some note about Wordpress Plugins, I hadn't
> > considered adding them quite so quickly but one plugin in particular has
> > proven to be quite worthwhile over the last few weeks so I thought I'd
> pass
> > this one along because I'm sure you can all use it.
> >
> > Certainly one of our own needs some assistance right about now.
> >
> > It's called Wordfence Security by Maunder (author name) and it's exactly
> > what it sounds like - a security system for your self-hosted Wordpress
> > installation.
> >
> > it scans your files looking for "issues" on an ongoing basis and sends
> > along both the simple (you need to upgrade XX plugin) to banal (XX
> > subscriber has a weak password that can be hacked) to critical issues
> > requiring immediate action.
> >
> > One of the critical ones landed on my desk last night to give me a New
> > Year's present this morning when I unfolded the laptop after our trip.
> > Emails with "critical" in their heading get my attention as do the big
> red
> > Xs on the plugin report screen. ;-(
> >
> > Terra Nova - who I link to on one of my sites - has been identified by
> > Google as hosting malware.  In other words, it's been hacked.  And their
> > "Google reputation" is pretty much in the compost bin.  So the outward
> > links I had on my site were flagged as leading to a malware site and my
> > readers might be infected if they went there.
> >
> > The first thing I did was to email Dan and the PR company handling their
> > account (I don't have the tech guys email)
> >
> > The second thing I did this morning was to remove those links.  This not
> > only preserves my readers experience, it also preserves my reputation
> with
> > Google.
> >
> > There's no secret about this now as Chrome is now blocking TerraNova (if
> > you try to get to the nursery website using the Chrome browser, you
> can't.
> >
> > As soon as Terra Nova gets itself cleaned up with Google - then I will
> > restore all links
> >
> > The important point here is that TerraNova may have cleaned up their
> site,
> > it may be a false positive or they may be infected. But whatever - Google
> > thinks they're infected so the tech team there has to do something
> > immediately to fix the issue on their site and with Google.
> >
> > And this plugin notified me of the issue so I could take proactive steps
> to
> > preserve my own site integrity and ranking with Google.
> >
> > You may want to experiment with this plugin and temporarily remove
> > TerraNova links on your own site to preserve your own site integrity with
> > Google
> >
> > And as soon as I get some kind of feedback I will let this list know
> > immediately.
> >
> >
> > Doug
> >
> >
> >
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