A cautionary tale for you... and a helpful solution...
One of my Internet Businesses is a Quit Smoking Hypnotherapy System (which, if you want to stop smoking cigarettes, I highly recommend!) I get most of my customers from a Google Adwords campaign.
Recently I was shocked to have my Adwords account suspended because Google had found Malware on the salespage.
Now I pride myself on running an honest business and was horrified... I really thought Google must have got it wrong.
But... they were right! I immediately examined all the code on my internet pages and found that a piece of code I had never seen before was in place on every index page on every one of my internet sites.
I still don't know exactly what the malicious code was for or what it did... but I'm guessing it wasn't good!
So how could that code have got there? My sites are all password protected and my web-host is a well known reliable provider.(Highly Recommended:1 & 1)
The anwer was that a virus on my own computer had placed the code there, uploading it without my knowledge, when I connected. I don't know how the virus arrived on my computer... but I want to pass on to you the way to clean up your computer so you don't have problems like I did.
Ok... I already had the popular Norton anti-virus program installed, but I hadn't paid to keep receiving the updates. After all it's not cheap!
SpyBot: Search and Destroy is a completely free anti-virus program with, most importantly, a free update service. They ask for donations. (and once you've seen how good the program is you'll want to give them something!) I downloaded SpyBot and ran the scanner... it found and removed 2 Trojans and 5 viruses! I think one of the Trojans was responsible for my Malware Problem.
I lost 5 days of business while my account was suspended because I wasn't properly protected. So my top-tip to you.... download Spybot, like I did, and get yourself cleaned up!
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