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Website changed on local and server possibly hacked?

Sep 3, 2012 7:29 PM

Hi all,

 

I have a very disturbing problem..our website is wwwDOTselfdefenseproshopDOTcom. I had help here with my Spry Menu that I was building on the left column of my site.

 

Just as of yesterday sometime later in the day our website displayed properly as far as the spry menu on the left side.

 

As of today (we just looked now) the spry menu is all wrongly displayed and changed and showing old links as well.

 

I checked our local files on our machine where I store the files for the site. This is where I first discovered that the spry menu work that I had done was destroyed. I then checked online and found the same.

 

Neither my wife nor I have touched the local files nor uploaded any changes to the server for at least a month now.

 

Any ideas? was our site and our connection on DW hacked somehow?

 

We are at a loss and more than that the work I had done is now gone....

 

 

* NOTE TO GRAMPS if you happen to see this post...you and I had worked on my spry menu bar and I am wondering if you might still have a copy of the files from DW that I had sent you?...

 

Thanks to anyone for any help...

1095 Views   16 Replies   Latest reply: Dano4193, Sep 8, 2012 6:54 PM
 
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  • David_Powers
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    1. David_Powers,
    Sep 4, 2012 3:56 AM   in reply to Dano4193
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    Dano4193 wrote:

     

    I checked our local files on our machine where I store the files for the site. This is where I first discovered that the spry menu work that I had done was destroyed. I then checked online and found the same.

     

    Neither my wife nor I have touched the local files nor uploaded any changes to the server for at least a month now.

     

    Any ideas? was our site and our connection on DW hacked somehow?

     

    It is highly unlikely that anyone could change the files in your local version of Dreamweaver by hacking into your website. One possible explanation is that your computer has been infected by a virus that corrupted your local files and then uploaded them.

     

    However, the first thing to do is to contact your hosting company to report the suspected hacking. It's possible that the hosting company keeps a backup of files, so you might be able to restore the site from their backup. But the main priority should be to run a thorough virus check on your computer.

     
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    Sep 4, 2012 6:14 AM   in reply to Dano4193
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    Is it possible your host service in the course of regular maintenance  had to switch to a backup server temporarily (and the backup server did not get the updated files)?

     

    Chris

     
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  • Dano4193
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    Sep 4, 2012 7:00 AM   in reply to David_Powers
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    Hi David,

     

    I have contacted the hosting site and the last log file for access they show is about a month ago they said and I have not been in or logged into Dreamweaver for at least that long or a few weeks at least to do anything.

     

    I have asked them for a backup from a few days backk when it was looking ok.

     

    Is it possible for a virus to login to DW and then upload files etc?

     

    Thank you, Dano

     
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  • Dano4193
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    Sep 4, 2012 7:02 AM   in reply to cdeatherage
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    Hi Chris, the strange thing is, is that the files somehow have been changed on my local and on the server. I have not uploaded anything for weeks to a month back.

     
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    Sep 4, 2012 7:06 AM   in reply to Dano4193
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    AFter reading your reply to David, I'm inclined to agree that your computer may have a virus or some form of malware working in the background. Have you notieced any other irregularities with other files/software? Even if you haven't, you might want to do a super sweep of your system.

     

    Chris

     
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    Sep 4, 2012 7:16 AM   in reply to cdeatherage
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    If the hosting company's log shows you haven't logged in for several weeks, the theory that it might be a virus looks less likely. The malware would need to get the login details from Dreamweaver, and any file transfer would surely show up in the log.

     

    It will be interesting to see what the backup looks like. It's quite possible that the version you were seeing up to yesterday was being loaded from your browser cache or a proxy server, and that the corrupted version is what you uploaded the last time you logged in.

     

    Whatever the explanation, it's an odd situation. The quicker you solve the mystery, the better.

     
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  • Dano4193
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    7. Dano4193,
    Sep 4, 2012 7:18 PM   in reply to David_Powers
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    Hi David.

     

    Here is what I have done so far. I just got the backup which I requested from the 1st. Which was the last time we looked at it live online and it looked fine. I just loaded our copy of DWCS3 on this brand new laptop that we have which has never had the files nor DW on it.

     

    I took the backup that they gave me, scanned it for viruses just to be sure. Then sent it to my email, opened it up on this machin in DW and it is still looking messed up.

     

    I am at a complete loss.

     

    Can anyone look at the code for me and see if its just something in the Spry Code that is missing? I had lots of help here at Adobe to get it to work, and it is displaying now as just a bunch of links instead of the Spry menu that it originally was.

     

    Regards,

    Dano

     
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    Sep 4, 2012 7:20 PM   in reply to cdeatherage
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    Scanned the machine and found some malware and cleaned it up with SuperAntiVirus. Haven't noticed anything else. I reloaded DWCS3 on another machine and opened the backup from the hosting co. Its still messed up, see the post to David...thanks for any help.

     
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    Sep 4, 2012 7:32 PM   in reply to Dano4193
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    The only thing I can think that I last did was someone here suggested that I upgrade the Spry Menu software since I have CS3. However there are links on there that are mine, but I never put them there. You can see some of the spry menus that I was working on, that say untitled item.

     

    I am at a complete loss and do not know what to do at this point. It is not making sense that the backup I got from Saturday is not right, but it looked right when we last checked it on Saturday.

     
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  • Nancy O.
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    Sep 5, 2012 11:54 AM   in reply to Dano4193
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    On your home page, I see 2 external links that are definitely messing you up.

     

    <script src="http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/spry/widgets/menubar/SpryMenuBar.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

     

    <link href="http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/spry/widgets/menubar/SpryMenuBarVer tical.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/>

     

    If you put those links into your browser, you'll see why.. Spry is no longer being supported by Adobe.  You'll need to physically download those files from GitHub and save them to your site. 

     

    Nancy O.

     
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  • Dano4193
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    Sep 7, 2012 6:44 PM   in reply to Nancy O.
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    Hi Nancy,

     

    Ok so that must be the problem. So does this mean that if you own Dreamweaver you can longer create a "fly-out" type menu bar?

     
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  • John Waller
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    Sep 7, 2012 9:00 PM   in reply to Dano4193
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    Not at all.

     

    It means that if you use the inbuilt Sry menu bars (created by Adobe) that you need to be aware that they have a limited shelf life since Adobe is no longer actively supporting or developing Spry.

     

    Plenty of alternatives exist from jQuery (free) to commercial paid-for alternatives e.g. Project Seven.

     
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  • Dano4193
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    Sep 8, 2012 10:19 AM   in reply to John Waller
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    Ok thanks. Still kinda confused here though. So what are the best options or way  to add a menu bar if you own Dreamweaver? or.. that doesnt really matter? I just need to find the best option to add a menu bar to my site?

     
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  • Nancy O.
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    14. Nancy O.,
    Sep 8, 2012 10:35 AM   in reply to Dano4193
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    FLYOUT MENUS:

     

    jQuery Superfish (free)

    http://users.tpg.com.au/j_birch/plugins/superfish/

     

    CSS Menus (free)

    http://www.cssmenus.co.uk/flyout.html

     

    CSS3 Menu (free & commercial)

    http://css3menu.com/

     

    PVII Pop-Menu Magic II (commercial)

    http://www.projectseven.com/products/menusystems/pmm2/index.htm

     

     

    Nancy O.

     
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  • Nancy O.
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    15. Nancy O.,
    Sep 8, 2012 10:40 AM   in reply to Nancy O.
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    Oh, and here's one more I like:

    http://www.red-team-design.com/css3-dropdown-menu

     

     

    Nancy O.

     
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  • Dano4193
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    Sep 8, 2012 6:54 PM   in reply to Nancy O.
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    Hey thanks Nancy...

     
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