Ouch!

mmixon · 08-18-2009, 02:48 PM

Have a elance guy from India doing some website work at txrus.com for me. Suddenly, the site went down and this HTML/Framer Virus appeared on my website, and according to the server logs, he is the only one that has logged in and the only one that has uploaded files to my website. He swears, he didn't do it. My question is that if the files are hosted on host gator, is it possible that the virus could attach itself to my folders in any other way than by being uploaded?

Host Gator was great in cs, in that they were able to delete the virus and restore the files to their last backup, but I don't want to falsely accuse the guy if he may be not guilty.

Mickey Mixon

Jared Alberghini · 08-18-2009, 02:51 PM

Tell your guy to FULLY SCAN his computer, it's most likely a virus on his machine that sneaks it's way into their FTP client, and changes all the index.xxxx files, adding the iframe spyware/virus to any site he logs into with his infected machine.

Had this happen to me a while back, let me go find the thread...

Edit: Here it is... some good replies/suggestions here: Have Your Websites Been iframe Hacked Also?

Jared

08-18-2009, 02:48 PM	#1
mmixon Warrior Member War Room Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Sugar Land, Texas Posts: 19 Thanks: 4 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	Ouch! - HTML/Framer Virus Have a elance guy from India doing some website work at txrus.com for me. Suddenly, the site went down and this HTML/Framer Virus appeared on my website, and according to the server logs, he is the only one that has logged in and the only one that has uploaded files to my website. He swears, he didn't do it. My question is that if the files are hosted on host gator, is it possible that the virus could attach itself to my folders in any other way than by being uploaded? Host Gator was great in cs, in that they were able to delete the virus and restore the files to their last backup, but I don't want to falsely accuse the guy if he may be not guilty. Mickey Mixon

08-18-2009, 02:51 PM	#2
Jared Alberghini Godson of the Godfather War Room Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: The NorthEast Kingdom - Vermont, USA Posts: 2,073 Blog Entries: 25 Thanks: 581 Thanked 788 Times in 369 Posts Social Networking	Re: Ouch! - HTML/Framer Virus Tell your guy to FULLY SCAN his computer, it's most likely a virus on his machine that sneaks it's way into their FTP client, and changes all the index.xxxx files, adding the iframe spyware/virus to any site he logs into with his infected machine. Had this happen to me a while back, let me go find the thread... Edit: Here it is... some good replies/suggestions here: Have Your Websites Been iframe Hacked Also? Jared
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