Do No Evil

I think “do no evil” is a catch-phrase Google had as a motto for their service – today I am happy that Google have reinsted this blog as a “safe” site and give credence to their slogan. Google were helpful and fast to react to my problems – my thanks to them.

Early this year my web-hosting service was attacked and, I believe, thousands of websites were hacked and malware code inserted in them including three of mine.

The attacker put code all over the place, hidden in database files, in .htaccess, even in Googles own verification code – it took me days to clean up the mess and I still l see hundreds of other people’s sites if I search which are still “hacked” – luckily I have a little knowledge of site construction and code, but many people have just given up and lost millions of hours of work and effort.

In the great scheme of things, hacking websites is not the greatest evil, illness, accidents and violence are the real sorrows, but I cannot get my head around why many, obviously talented, people wish to create such misery and spend a huge amount of time and effort doing so.

It is a lesson and I am securing my sites netter, but the problem was the hosting company, it was their server infiltrated directly allowing thousands of people to lose, in some cases their living, income and dreams.

Google must be the prime target for these brain-warped hackers, the security team at Google must have a very low opinion of human nature.