On Jan 13, 2009, at 6:47 PM, LuKreme wrote: > On 12-Jan-2009, at 12:20, Kevin Callahan wrote: >> The report I read regarding her site suggests there were trojans and >> other javascript exploits coming from her site. Of course, if they >> were, they were tied to the IP of the server, not her site. >> Nonetheless, the service provider says that even if she moves her >> site to a different host, her domain name is still probably >> blacklisted. Unbelievable! > > > If you live in a really bad neighborhood, pizza delivery guys are not > going to come to your house. It's much the same with ISPs; when your > ISP is a source of spam, you will get blacklisted by many mailservers > (including mine). If sites on the same IP block as you are > distributing malware, then you will get tarnished with the same brush. > > And once you are tarnished, the taint will stay with YOU. > > Solution: move to a better neighborhood and wait for the smell to > fade. >
She just signed up with MobileMe - do you think simply moving her site to a "personal domain" hosted by MobileMe will clear it up? or is the DOMAIN itself hosed -- and will she have to go through Google (as directed) to have them recheck her site to put her in good standing? GOOGLE- the new police the system is really screwy because her site had nothing to do with any malware _______________________________________________ OSX-Nutters mailing list | [email protected] http://lists.tit-wank.com/mailman/listinfo/osx-nutters List hosted at http://cat5.org/
