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Originally Posted by chaley
(remaining off-topic)
I have seen this many times, both professionally and as a web surfer. Almost invariably these sites have been hacked, with all that stuff added by the bad guys. I had one case where at least 5 different 'organizations' had injected stuff into a website. The hacking/injection is done by scanning 'bots. My personal site gets scanned by malicious 'bots between 20 and 100 times per day. looking for known holes in common web SW packages. People seem not to understand that security updates must be applied to applications as well as the OS. Sigh...
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Tell me about it ... I've had to try to explain to a site's owner how and why a site needed to be de-hacked. In this particular case, it was being hijacked if you hit it via a search engine, but not if you went there directly, and of course the owner never had any need to search for it. *sigh* But not in this case. Y'see, it gets better: not long ago, in Clientcopia, I read about someone who tried to convince a prospective client that was a bad idea. A prospective client who owned an auto parts site. I can't think that's a coincidence.
Despite the prevalence of hackers (and the clutter worms leave in my logs), however, don't put anything past the stupidity of site owners. There was one I turned down a number of years ago who wanted her entire site solely in Flash because she liked how it looked. She'd rather have an non-accessible, search-proof, user-repellent site just so she could keep precise control over how every page was presented. Every page for her
furniture store. Is it any surprise that she ended up out of business (never having found anyone willing to do a Flash site for her, at least not for what she wanted to pay)?