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#36623 29-Jun-2009 10:43

A bit unfortunate for them... pressumably one of their clients sites that they host has been compromised and resulted in the whole ip range being marked as unsafe?

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#229250 29-Jun-2009 17:07

Ragnor: A bit unfortunate for them... pressumably one of their clients sites that they host has been compromised and resulted in the whole ip range being marked as unsafe?

I had this happen recently to a friend's website, their webhoster was compromised and all the websites on that shared hosting had a small piece of javascript inserted just above the closing <body> tag.

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#229295 29-Jun-2009 18:49

I'm not so sure it was a clients website. I visited maxnet.co.nz yesterday, as I'm a customer and wanted to check my broadband usage.

My AV software (Kaspersky) threw up a whole bunch of alerts as the website loaded. Here's a screeny from the Reports screen:

All appears to be fine again now.

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#229323 29-Jun-2009 19:46

Yeah bit unfortunate really, Googles department that looks at de-listings for this only open during office hours so you kinda don't want to get listed over the weekend as what happened above.