Unwanted links popping up on my website... please help!

Discussion in 'Malware Help - MG (A Specialist Will Reply)' started by JustinChrono, Sep 13, 2012.

  1. JustinChrono

    JustinChrono Private E-2

    Sorry, I'm not sure if this is the correct section, but...

    On my e-commerce website (run by OsCommerce), when you click around a bit and go to checkout, an unwanted link pops up randomly from the word "register". This word is not supposed to be link, and it links to a random website. This only happens on certain browsers (it does not happen on Safari or Firefox). Someone suggested it was Spyware, but either way, is there a way to fix this? Thanks.
     
  2. Kestrel13!

    Kestrel13! Super Malware Fighter - Major Dilemma Staff Member

    Unfortunately, we are not able to assist with removal of malicious coding from websites. What we can do is check a computer for malware, but in your case I do not think it will help. :(
     
  3. TimW

    TimW MajorGeeks Administrator - Jedi Malware Expert Staff Member

    Problems like this are really more of a vulnerability issue and not truly malware. How people write their website code, how old/unupdated the software they write it with, and how secure the servers that host it are really the areas to look at. Issues here are commonly referred to as code injection ( see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_injection ) The things we do in this forum are not going to find problems in your code. None of these malware scanners will since they are not design for this purpose.

    You are going to need to have a very good webpage developer check the code for security issues and you need to verify that all software being used has been updated to include all security patches. In addition, you need to make sure that the server hosting the website also has been fully updated.
     

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