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Posted by DJ on 08/08/06 17:37
<softwarelabus@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1155049006.719519.26800@75g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
> Andy Dingley wrote:
>> softwarelabus@yahoo.com wrote:
>>
>> > I wanted to warn all website owners that some evil web hosts like
>> > vistapages will periodically place a robots.txt file on your site that
>> > disallows all search engines. It happened to me.
>>
>> OK, so that's pretty evil. Not quite sharks with frickin' laser beams
>> on their heads, but it's more evil than you want from people you're
>> giving money to.
>>
>> What did they say about this? How abject was their grovelling apology?
>>
>> You're not still _with_ these people are you?!
>>
>>
>> > You should also look for this file when you ftp to your site in case
>> > your web host places a sneaky server script to make robots.txt
>> > invisible only to you.
>>
>> If I were evil (Mwwaa ha ha ha) I wouldn't place a robots.txt in
>> anyone's web root, I'd use some config to serve a standard robots.txt
>> for HTTP requests for it, without you even having a file to see. As
>> easy for the evil admin to do, and less obvious.
>
>
>
> Sometimes I wished some x-virus creator who turned good would write a
> god virus. A virus that actually did some good by destroying other
> viruses, removing evil disallows in robots.txt from your hosts server.
> ;-) I know, I know, two wrongs don't make a right ... don't sink to
> the level of evil, lol.
>
> Is this such a bad idea? If the government agencies caught a good
> virus maker would they be prosecuted or given the nobel price.
>
> just food for thought is all.
> Paul
>
Did anyone else get affected or just you? If they did it to all of you
perhaps you should get together and sue them. It would also be fairly strong
proof that it was the hosting company that did this as it is unlikely
someone would break the passowrds on serveral acccounts.
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