How to Defend your Website from the Google Duplicate Proxy Exploit

Got an interesting link in an email newsletter as in the subject above- well worth a read for those who do not know about it -
http://www.sitepronews.com/archives/2007/aug/24prt.html

 

Thanks for the link , lets check it out

 

Good read I hadn't heard about this yet, but had speculated something like this was possible.

 

Yes, this is a real threat nowadays. Some simple steps to reduce the chance are - make all your links absolute rather than relative, and add the META tag BASE HREF with the HEAD part of your Page.

 

Just finished the read and I had the same thinking as you. Especially since in my line of internet marketing, my competition is huge and making myself stick out above all those other seemingly generic sites out there is hard enough.. Possible attack is, well, very possible.

I will try and implement as soon as I can but not in much rush as my site from what I've seen isn't being copped.

I'm not sure of the entire process as far as the php coding will go and what not.. So, if anyone looks into this more or already has, shed some light!

Good luck.

 

Here you go. Read the Implementation Guide and it'll walk you through how to defend against this.

 

Thanks pal

 

Here's a previous thread on the subject also.

 

I have been wondering about this subject so it was a good read for me. Thanks for sharing.

 

Thanks for the link, this has been concerning me, a few of my sites have been 'proxified'.

 

yah , really helful link. but i how do we know that google proxy exploit is used in our site ?

 

thanks for that helpful link.

i'm sure that google will solve this problem in future

 

Interesting. Thanks for resolving tips

 

Interesting.

What are the risks of this happening really? is it common?

 

Here's one real time example of a proxy page that took over other people web page. Use the site: command to see for yourself how 'hi-tech' Google Bot really is.
s195474454.onlinehome DOT us

-Had your website been one of those victims, lately?

 

Very helpful, thanks!

 

interesting and very helpful reading

hope google come up with solution as soon as possible

 

I've outlined another approach to this problem here:
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?p=4698107