My Most Desperate and Frustrating Week In My Entire IM Career

Hi Warriors,

The past week was most frustrating time ever since I have been marketing online. I want YOU to get alerted of this and won't have to go through the pain I have...

The Story:

Last week, I checked one of my websites which was marked by Google as "Potentially Dangerous Website"... I was shocked and yelled "What the heck is going on..."

I checked with my hosting company which said that malicious coding were added. I told my webhosting company to restore the system to an earlier date. However, this did not solve the issue, as it was unknown when the malicious codes were added. I was told to change the passwords of all my websites and remove the coding asap.

Fortunately, the web-admin was able to check the codes were added on May 8th and advised me to restore prior to that day. Gosh... all work done during the past 2 weeks were gone!

But the thing is, I did not know what caused it...

Then I run Norton to check and to my surprise - Norton identified a spyware but it could not delete it!

I ran to an IT vendor and inquired about it. I had Norton 2005 on my machine and purchased the renewal subscription, but I was told that N2005 might be old and could not quarantine virus/ spyware.

I formatted my machine and reinstalled the latest version of Norton 2009 + internet security. I have to submit to Google and nortify her to recheck and remove the "Potentially Dangerous Sites" mark. Phew, glad that Google was quick!

Boy, was I desperate!

Hope that you don't have to go through the experience I had. If you have not checked your Anti-virus software, do ensure it's kept up-to-date!

A couple of tips for YOU:
1) Use a reputable Anti-virus Software, Ensure it's up-to-date
2) Keep a record of what you do online
3) Backup your stuff regularly

If you have any other tips, please share.

Peace out,
Roy