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If you are a client of well known wireless networking equipment distributor; Miro Distribution or for some reason accessed their site recently using Firefox, you would have gotten a Safe Browsing warning from Google telling you this:
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Reported Attack Site!
This web site at www.miro.co.za has been reported as an attack site and has been blocked based on your security preferences.
Attack sites try to install programs that steal private information, use your computer to attack others, or damage your system.
Some attack sites intentionally distribute harmful software, but many are compromised without the knowledge or permission of their owners.
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You can bump into this message on any site if Google has found malicious code on the site. In this case it was a real alarm after Miro’s website was apparently hacked. A Miro sales consultant confirmed the problem and that they are working on it. The sales consultant confirmed that they might have been hacked. It is most definitely a hack of you look at the offsite links that were produced upon Google’s inspection. Those links will take you to straight to virus hell.
The warning is a bit of an irritant that could be bad for business and I assume it will take some serious effort by Miro to remove the alert. The site will refer you to this page in order to stop the warnings. A bit of a process I would guess including of course clearing your site of any bad code, which I think it is fair to say was already done by Miro. A revert to a backup before the hack should do, but where did the hackers come in or was the server itself infected with a virus? How do you prevent it from happening again if indeed it was a hack and not a virus that corrupted the website? According to Miro there isn’t any important client data hosted on the server and this is just an inconvenience for Firefox users who do get the warning. Internet Explorer users would most likely have been vulnerable to the infection and would have gotten no warning.
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Reported Attack Site!
This web site at www.miro.co.za has been reported as an attack site and has been blocked based on your security preferences.
Attack sites try to install programs that steal private information, use your computer to attack others, or damage your system.
Some attack sites intentionally distribute harmful software, but many are compromised without the knowledge or permission of their owners.
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You can bump into this message on any site if Google has found malicious code on the site. In this case it was a real alarm after Miro’s website was apparently hacked. A Miro sales consultant confirmed the problem and that they are working on it. The sales consultant confirmed that they might have been hacked. It is most definitely a hack of you look at the offsite links that were produced upon Google’s inspection. Those links will take you to straight to virus hell.
The warning is a bit of an irritant that could be bad for business and I assume it will take some serious effort by Miro to remove the alert. The site will refer you to this page in order to stop the warnings. A bit of a process I would guess including of course clearing your site of any bad code, which I think it is fair to say was already done by Miro. A revert to a backup before the hack should do, but where did the hackers come in or was the server itself infected with a virus? How do you prevent it from happening again if indeed it was a hack and not a virus that corrupted the website? According to Miro there isn’t any important client data hosted on the server and this is just an inconvenience for Firefox users who do get the warning. Internet Explorer users would most likely have been vulnerable to the infection and would have gotten no warning.