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    Solved Malicious code

    Post by bob77707 January 10th 2013, 7:45 am

    I hope this is the right place for this, but I visited one of the HTML pages on my forum and my antivirus software notified me of a threat. I checked the code and noticed there were a few lines of code added to this HTML page that I did not put there. I am the only one that has access to these pages. Any ideas on how this happened and how to prevent it from happening again?
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    Solved Re: Malicious code

    Post by Sanket January 10th 2013, 7:50 am

    Just remove that code & check.
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    Solved Re: Malicious code

    Post by bob77707 January 10th 2013, 7:53 am

    I removed it and it's fine now, but how did it get there if I didn't put it there? Do you think my account got hacked?
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    Post by Sanket January 10th 2013, 7:55 am

    I don't think so, you might have added it by mistake while you added some third party code.
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    Solved Re: Malicious code

    Post by bob77707 January 10th 2013, 7:58 am

    That's what I thought as well. I went to the website that I initially got the third party code to see if those lines were in there and they were not.
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    Solved Re: Malicious code

    Post by Sanket January 10th 2013, 7:59 am

    Well possibly, can't really confirm what it could have been the cause.

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    Solved Re: Malicious code

    Post by bob77707 January 10th 2013, 8:03 am

    Ok, just thought I would ask just in case anyone had ever heard of this happening before. Go ahead and mark this as solved.

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    Solved Re: Malicious code

    Post by Sanket January 10th 2013, 8:07 am

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