I was not in my city and i never checked my adsense details, when i was just checking my directory today at www.hiifii.com/dir i saw "advertise on my site" which i never activated. This showed me that my pub-id was changed and also in my forum www.hiifii.com/forums i see my adsnese pub-id is changed. Now i can change it back to mine, but what to do for that guy who did it. I know him as a chat friend from this link who used to ask me some help on how to install forums and all. I never gave him my site logins ie Ftp and all https://adwords.google.com/select/O...ingUrl=http://www.hiifii.com/dir/&hl=en&gl=IN From this i see he is Ishabhai J. Manjothi Now i want all your suggestion on how to handle this situation. i will change my ftp logins now, but what about the loss i made and the cheating he did. How can he hack my site first of all. I didnt lose much from adsense ~ 25-30$ but still what about the cheating. Please suggest me. This is my other site www.worldranking.info where my original pub-id is located.
damn it how is this possible? u must have given your ftp acces to someone. Infact i faced prob in one of my dir last week.....i got to know a pending featured listing in my admin area of phplinkdir script and i didn't get the payment for it. Thats so funny of that script.
I also get many links in my dir where they didnt pay but link comes in my admin CP But i never gave my hiifii site login's ever to anyone. Just found he is a member of my forum - http://www.hiifii.com/forums/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=460 and owns this site maffat.com Now whats the option i can do please tell me, so that he never does this type of cheating again.
darn .. I am sure that he doesn't know how to install daemon scripts so you can be assured that after changing your password he won't be able to access it. Also check the log file to see all the actions.
Amit, directly contact him and make your point clear. Try to find out how he got your ftp details and make sure you don't do the same mistake again. In the meantime please change your ftp details a.s.ap
He got your system trojaned or installed a keylogger through IM. That's how he got your ftp account details! A plausible explanation. Do a full system format and install everything over again. And be carefull who you chat with. Be sure to use maximum security for your system and don't rely on freeware since this isn't sufficient no matter how much other people say it's just as good or whatever. Don't rely on AVG since this is garbage. And don't think if you have Spybot or Ad-Aware from Lavasoft installed you have a decent form of protection. An interesting article about Ad-Aware that describes the lack of a checksum for the signature files which gives malware an open door to install it's own code and not to be detected. So if you want to prevent this in the future delete videos you get in your email and don't open them unless it's from a very trusted source and if it's important. If it's not important then don't open it! You never know what's going to be installed on your system if you do so. Buy some decent protection for your system. Don't chat with anyone you don't know or you only know recently, be carefull with this kind of communication.
ok, will do that. Thanks. But he also got a adsense account on my website URL, so any option i can do with adsense support? Thanks a lot Edz I think you are right, as i met him recently on YM and iam not on my system as iam not in my city. So he may have keylogged my PC. The last time i talked to him he was asking me whether i was interested to buy Yahoo bots. Which i said no and he would have done the work.
Well he has his pub id placed on your site, ok that's not a real big problem. Inform Google about your situation about how your system was comprimised and tell them you have changed your passwords and formatted your system. In the case of him doing click fraud on your site it will only get his account suspended and maybe yours as well but therefor you need to contact Google Adsense support about this issue. Make sure you change all your passwords as soon as possible. And of course remove the AS code he placed on your site and also check your directories for possible hidden files otherwise he might be able to comprimise your system again
Sorry to know it happen with you. its not easy to take details from your own PC unless or until you are not using any anti virus or you are using your machine carelessly. just few more addon precautions you can take. check your phpbb script is up2date or not. its always good to have up2date scripts as there is always some exploict in older version of scripts and same for your link directory. Also check through ftp and short by date/time to see which dates files are modified and if you found recent dates open those files and check if there is any vurenable scripts specially in phpbb forum. i am telling you this cause if he has changed the things through ftp then its fine and you are safe but if it happens through script it can happen again. i have seen such cases a lot with many of my clients
No i didn't do that. I have mailed adsense support about this as he got his account on my URL. so, lets hope a positive reply from them. i didnt remove his adsense bcos of that reason.
You should remove it right now No need to wait. If any wrong doing has been caused they (google) surely can filter this out. Just remove it why let him even make any possible profit?
A good way to find out if you have any keyloggers on your system for free is to use www.housecall.trendmicro.com It Works and its free , even removes them ...
That's the so dumb....it is too easy to trace that hacker down because of the pub ID.. it just like someone stole a car and put his own license plate on...
Thanks Vishwaa I encourage everyone to run that , you will be shocked whats on your system that alot of the paid ones like Norton , Macafee and all the rest of the paid ones do not catch