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Google Warns 20,000 Webmasters About 'weird Redirects'

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    April 18, 2012, 11:28AM
    Google Warns 20,000 Webmasters About 'Weird Redirects'


    The head of Google's Web spam team says that the company has pushed warning messages to some 20,000 Web site owners that their sites may be compromised and are performing "weird" redirections, possibly to malicious Web sites.
    Matt Cutts used a Twitter message on Tuesday to announce that the company sent "your might be hacked' messages to the sites, which are in "dozens of different languages." The notices from the company's Search Quality Team, are visible on the Web sites in question and warn web masters that their site "may be hacked" and that JavaScript may have been injected into the site to "redirect users to malicious sites."

    "You should check your source code for any unfamiliar JavaScript and in particular any files containing "eval(function(p,a,c,k,e,r). The malicious code may be placed in HTML, JavaScript or PHP files so it's important to be thorough in your search," Google warns

    more on this topic here: http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/google-warns-20000-webmasters-about-weird-redirects-041812
     
    snoopy, Apr 18, 2012
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