Re: Garden Website Hacked According to Google

**M* P* D* <m*@dargan.com>**

This is great news! 

Sent from my iPad

On Jan 8, 2013, at 7:41 PM, Doug Green <gardeningemail@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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