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Just doing some updates after a few months off, and I see a folder inside my public_html called "colo", with a few hundred spammy appearing html files. They're all dated 3/21/2011, when I was hosted on Arzt (I'm now on moro).
Curiously, the files are a combo of my normal home page (my background image and footer etc) with hundreds of images interspersed, like something loaded my normal page, modified it, then saved it elsewhere.
I can obviously just delete them, but I'd like to know where they came from, and why.
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Why do I have a folder full of spam in my account?
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Feathers McGraw
, Sep 02 2011 04:31 PM
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Posted 02 September 2011 - 06:17 PM
I can't comment on why, but the first place to start looking for where/when is in your site's log files.
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Posted 02 September 2011 - 10:24 PM
Good suggestion, but the logs only go back to August. It's a small site with a dozen invited friends only, so I don't keep logs very long.
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Posted 06 November 2011 - 06:04 PM
I got something like this too. The folder was called "specialty" and had a bunch of spammy looking HTML files. I deleted it. I didn't put it there. Files were dated a few months ago.
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Posted 07 November 2011 - 12:34 AM
odd. do you both sue the same cms/blogging software/forums/scripts ?
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Tiny Orange
Posted 19 May 2012 - 01:09 PM
Obviously, the spam came from a guy that causes trouble or conns people. Thed best way to handle this - delete the files. If they come back, report them. Its as simple as that.
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Posted 12 July 2012 - 11:59 PM
you would have been visited many spammers websites
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