Re: Garden Website Hacked According to Google

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

Looks like Google now "approves" of Terra Nova.  The webmaster said there
were a few javascripts that weren't appreciated and have been removed.

Good to go again.

On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 9:37 AM, Mary Palmer Dargan <mpdargan@dargan.com>wrote:

> Times are hard enough for nurseries without added digital burdens
> inhibiting their message getting out.
>
> On Jan 3, 2013, at 8:07 AM, Doug Green <gardeningemail@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 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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