Thursday, July 2, 2009

What the HACK is the matter with you?

Some of you may have visited the website ReviewPlays.Com and saw the ugly message that warned: THIS IS AN ATTACK SITE!

This was put up by Firefox and Google because they claim to have found some files were infected with a virus - specifically the interview with Ray Bradbury.

As it was, no files were infected, but someone had linked their website to ours and that website was infected, so we were smeared with the same crayola and thrown into the same pot!

It was an ordeal to remove the malicious tag. EVERY file had to be downloaded from the host site - cleaned through a McAfee anti virus scan and then reloaded back to the web host. Then we had to request a review by Google and they checked every file to make sure we were "clean". This took several days.

Moral of the story - be careful who you hook up with along the way. You never know if they may pass on a virus (or other malady) to you.

Now you can go back to www.ReviewPlays.Com and enjoy the site worry free - we have no viruses - BUT watch out for the other guys who are linking to us!

Remember the good old days of newspapers?