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Earlier this year I had a big problem as my hosting company was attacked by hackers from hell who hijacked thousands of websites and inserted “malware” into them – this has resulted in some of my sites still being listed as “dangerous” by Google.
I have had to search through thousands  of files and check pages and pages of code to find the tricks and traps which had been inserted.
Google have some tools to help me with this, but it is a game of “cat and mouse” and I am not a programmer or remotely expert in this sort of thing.
Amongst the debris I cleared out and the corrupted files I corrected, I have noticed that every site had a file “altered” in the cgi-bin on the 2nd of January this year – all the files are identical and it is a 6.3 megabyte file – to me it is unreadable and without it none of my sites, including www.twiku.com, will work – any help or ideas are welcome, I am looking for some diagnostic software or service which can pinpint the bad pages or problems on my sites and let me get the Google blacklist lifted.
Can anyone explain the reason why a person will do this sort of thing – the misery and expense is enormous.
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