Hi Guys,
I was as surprised as everyone else when I noticed that my website was “off the air”, my ISP didn’t have the courtesy to tell me that they had done it. The hit counter suggests it happened on the 9th March.
After several lengthy premium rate calls to my ISP, they eventually told me that they had pulled the site because I was advertising a spam site. I think they said it was spamcopnet. I told them I have never carried any advertising but they were not having any of it. Eventually I had to send them a signed letter saying that I had no connections with any spam sites and that I had a firewall & anti-virus software in place in case I had been hacked. I am still waiting to get the webspace back.
The good news is that it should come back and I have used the opportunity to eradicate some dead links and other general housekeeping.
In case it was a hacking job if anybody has any security suggestions beyond Zone Alarm, Avira AntiVir, Spybot & Ad-Aware, all of which I have, I would love to hear from you.
Thanks for all your emails of support while it has been off, I hope to be back soon.
Regards
Chris Brady
www.b737.org.uk (I hope !)