[pmwiki-users] I know this will generate a good laugh from most of you

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 02:33:16PM -0700, Amy Sweetman wrote:
>    Hello all:
>     
>    I feel absolutely ridiculous posting this, but perhaps some of you could
>    use a good laugh...... and after you lift yourself off the floor, maybe
>    you could offer some good advice.   
>     
>    I need help in correcting something, I have emailed the list in the past
>    and was advised to add passwords to my wiki, however this maliciousness
>    was what occurred and I need help fixing the problem because although I
>    can set passwords, I am not sure how to fix what has already been done....
>    so here it goes
>     
>     
>    I run a website that is designed to allow psychology professors across the
>    nation to post up teaching ideas and some how a person has used my links
>    to post porn
>     
>    When you google my site this is what you get.....

What search term(s) are you using to "google your site"?

>    IF you click on the link above you will find something like this. 
>     
>    http://www.intropsychresources.com/pmwiki/pmwiki/uploads/ResourcesByType/escort-milano.htm
>    http://www.intropsychresources.com/pmwiki/pmwiki/uploads/ResourcesByTopic/accompagnatrici-roma.htm
>    http://www.intropsychresources.com/pmwiki/pmwiki/uploads/ResourcesByTopic/incontri-erotici.htm
>    http://www.intropsychresources.com/pmwiki/pmwiki/uploads/ResourcesByTopic/donne-famose.htm
>    http://www.intropsychresources.com/pmwiki/pmwiki/uploads/ResourcesByTopic/alberghi-toscana.htm
>    http://www.intropsychresources.com/pmwiki/pmwiki/uploads/Main/sesso-orale.htm
>    http://www.intropsychresources.com/pmwiki/pmwiki/uploads/Main/slut-wife-stories.htm
>    http://www.intropsychresources.com/pmwiki/pmwiki/uploads/Main/scarica-musica-gratis.htm
>     
>    Can someone please advise?

What has happened is that someone has uploaded a bunch of ".htm" 
files to your site that redirect to porn sites, and then used 
"Twitch Wiki" to create a lot of links to your site to drive
traffic there.

The first thing you need to do (if you haven't already) is
to make sure that uploading files to your site (attachments)
is protected by a password somehow.  Normally having an edit
password in place will suffice.

Then, you want to find any of the unwanted .htm files in
your uploads/ directory and remove those from your server.
That will at least cause people to start getting "page not
found" errors when they click on any of the bad links.

The last thing to do will be to try to contact the
Twitch Wiki owners and ask them to remove the pages
that are linking to your site.  Depending on who it is,
they may or may not do this.

Getting the information to clear out of Google may be
the most difficult part, as Google is simply indexing links
to your site coming from another location (Twitch Wiki).
If Twitch Wiki removes the pages with the bad links, then
Google will eventually notice this and remove it from their
search tables; if Twitch Wiki leaves them there then there's
not much else to be done but hope that other pages will
start to rank more highly than the ones on Twitch Wiki.

Hope this helps,

Pm