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Old 04-12-2007, 06:37 AM  
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Originally Posted by Pete-KT View Post
This has nothing to do with your host, this has to do with files you have on your server, if you have php files that have security leaks in them, those are the easiest for someone to add code to to popup an adware. even if you move hosts and use the same files you have now it will keep happening, so check your files that it happened to and fix the permisions and or exploits in those scripts.
Exactly, you don't have to care for general server security on shared hosting, but that doesn't protect you from exploitable bugs in your scripts...way to many people just upload a script and never update it, leave installer files on the server, don't check permissions, etc.
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