Our discussion group has received a post that looks like some kind of trojan.
The post is in Chinese and includes hundreds of links. Is there a way to
remove this from our site? How can I avoid this? thanks
http://www.albertandgage.com/disc4_toc.htm
Moonhouse, I can empathise with you. My web site has been hit
hard by these "spoofers" My ISP telles me that the items posted
on my message board are not harmful, but are simply the result of
some Chinese firm grabbing free web site services from me and
using them to promote their products. My ISP further stated that
this was not limited by any existing laws, so there was nothing
they could do about it. That is to say, from a political/legal
standpoint, they have just as much right to post on my message
board as anyone has.
I did find that putting a password on my web for a few hours
caused some of them to abandon it. I guess when their messages
started bouncing back asking for the password they cut loose and
quit trying to post on my message board.
I really snarled up my message board, trying to delete these
unwanted messages. I finally got it back up and working, but I
will caution you...be careful.
Here's the process I finally learned. This is from the Microsoft
FrontPage 2000 Unleashed book I bought.
First, be SURE the text index for the Web is current before you
delete any messages. Open the discussion Web in FrontPage, then
select Tools, Options to open the Options dialog box. In the
General tab, select Warn when Text Index Is Out of Date, then
click OK. You must then close the web and open it again to let it
do this Text Index check. If it indicates that the Text Index is
out of date click Yes to have FP re-index the Web.
After, and only after you've done the above, you can safely
delete messages without scrambling things up irreparably.
Now, in FP, get a Folders view and select _disc1, or what ever
folder your message fiels are in. Highlight the message you want
to delete then right click on it and select Delete.
Don't quit, yet. change to a Page view and select disc1_toc.htm.
Then, scroll down into the message list and click, anywhere on
this list to open another pop-up window. Right click on this
window and select Open
http://yourweb_disc1/tcproto.htm. This
should open a window that looks like the previous one, but it is
editable. If your web is all clean and everything is right, the
deleted file should be gone, but if there is a problem it may
still be shown here. If you see it, highlight and delete it. Be
sure to also delete the Form Results Here line just below the
item you are deleting.
There may be a simpler way to delete unwanted messages, but I
have not been able to make it work. I sure messed up my web site
trying. If someone can point out a sure fired way to get the job
done in a simpler fashion, I would surely like to learn how to do
it.
I still have a large number of broken links and fiiles that can't
be linked from within my web. I don't know how to clean this mess
up, but I'll keep working on it.
Gordon L. Richard webmaster
http://okc-shhh.org