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Discussion in 'PriusChat Website Questions' started by cwerdna, May 5, 2013.

  1. cwerdna

    cwerdna Senior Member

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    When I tried pasting a link to
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    http://www.greendriveexpo.com/
    , the title text that was retrieved ended up including a banned word "v i a g r a" and I couldn't post it. What's up with that?

    I've attached a screenshot of my attempt. Can someone else try posting or replying w/that URL?
     

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    Looks like another attack. Forum script infected or so?
    I entered that site greendriveexpo, copied exactly the URL and same as you - returned with that vi.g.ra stuff
     
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    Yeah, and the URL I have in the CODE tags is valid a URL and doesn't have that ED treatment in its title text.
     
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    If you look closer to that home page of greendriveexpo there is a lot of surprises... obviously someone placed there hidden content with various references...
    screen.JPG
     
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    Lucky you - it was too far for me :/
     
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    The forum (not Priuschat, but the site you tried to link to) is infected. I've gathered returned HTML code by unix curl app. I'm attaching screenshots. A lot of poisoned v....a stuff and URLs to not so good web sites. The same with keyword stuffing and so on. So Priuschat is working fine, the problem is with the other site.

    greendrive.png greendrive2.png
     
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    The greendriveexpo site was down for some time due to an attack before going back up to undortunately announce there will not be any more. This is probably remnants from the attack or new crap thrown onto it.
     
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    ericbecky Hybrid Battery Hero

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    If anyone knows a solution to fix this give me a shout at [email protected] or call me at 608-729-4082
     
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    ericbecky Hybrid Battery Hero

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    Spent time digging through and found most of the bad stuff I think.

    Did some security upgrading as well. You guys will have to let me know if it looks any different.
    First clear your cache and then go directly to the site via the link Home Page Green Drive Expo

    Google's cached version and description still looks messed up if you do a google search for the word "greendriveexpo".
    But that should clear up once I get the page cleared up.
     
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  11. ericbecky

    ericbecky Hybrid Battery Hero

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    Looks like Google's cached version of the site's description is now cleaned up as well

    Instead of all the pharmaceutical mumbo jumbo it now has this....
    "After seven great years and ten successful expos, Hybridfest/Green Drive Expo organizers are sad to announce that we will no longer be hosting annual events ..."​

    ​
    And the full text on the site is correct. Whew!

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    After seven great years and ten successful expos, Hybridfest/Green Drive Expo organizers are sad to announce that we will no longer be hosting annual events in Madison, Wisconsin, and the San Francisco Bay Area. We are optimistic about green transportation and will continue to engage the green transportation community, but our focus will move away from public expos.

    Green Drive Expo is honored to have helped educate tens of thousands of people about green transportation, many of whom made green purchases and shared their information with others. The current diversity and popularity of green vehicles and products was unimaginable seven years ago.

    Our gracious thanks to the sponsors and exhibitors who made Green Drive Expo possible, and to the wonderful people who attended the events and helped out behind the scenes. We are grateful to you all, and look forward to the future!

    Sincerely,
    All of us at Powers Productions​
    [​IMG]
     
    #11 ericbecky, Jun 14, 2013
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