On Sat, 2009-06-27 at 17:14 +0100, John wrote: > I run a website, and there's about 2.5 gigs of information on there. The > whole lot got deleted and the hackers put a picture of advertising who > they were. I have managed to get the host to restore as much as they can > back, well, they way they are trying to. > > What is worrying me, is the password was a really strong password, 100 > strong according to the password generator, and I was wondering, how > they managed to get in. I cant help worry that it might be through my > netbook. How do I check to see that my computer hasnt been hacked. I > know Ubuntu has a virus checker, but the lst time I tried to use it, it > was finding programs that were viruses, and these were programs in the > Synaptic. I was not able to use it in the end, as I didnt know what was > what. Also is there anything I can do to stop my notebook from being > hacked.
Hi John, A little more information will help us a great deal here. What was the type of hosting you had for your website? Was it a VPS or was it just some webspace from a provider? Also whats the domain? We can have a little look and check the security of the server its on. -Matt Daubney
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