Posted by easygoin on 08/08/06 16:22

softwarelabus@yahoo.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 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.
>

Just as no one has mentioned this - I wouldn't assume its your ISP
unless you have confirmation from them and sometimes hosts (being one
myself) have set their servers up to add certain files / folders by
default - usually an .htaccess file and this might be where it came from.

But rather as default - change your FTP password to something secure
using different cases and numbers, and also change any hosting passwords
if you have a dedicated / reseller / managed etc server - just in case
some malicious personage has decided to "secretly" sabotage your site
as this would indeed be a very good way to do this... as most have
backups (don't we) of our online sites ;).

Just a thought - Dimitri

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