Hi Fenz,
I managed to resolve my websites new domain name issue after getting help from the host companies help line service,
and I was also given some help from their forum.
One of the forum members however did point out that I had a problem with my Primary domains website.
Initially I thought that this was a philsing problem that I have had before when I first set it up.
When I set it up google detected a philsing problem when I had set up a google adwords account and as I recall
this had to be resolved before I was able to run a adwords campaign that I later did.
I had not ran it for a long time and I suspected that it may be back.
Anyway I clicked on my website and to my dismay / surprise.. Avira detected a virus !
My Brother had told me last week that he suspected it but his AV did not detect it.
What I dont know is HOW it got there !
IT may have been there from the beginning.... two webdesigners had been involved in creating parts of it.
I did the rest... ( But I do not know How to create any virus unless it was carried from some other material that I added such as an image (gif... jpeg) or something)
I do have other almost identical sites that I set up as It was being evolved and I did not note any of the others that I checked come up with a virus)
I want to point out however... When the virus was detected... I was not able to quarenteen it as such and it would only allow me to opt for the Deny access option. see attachment gif..
As it happenes the virus is low threat...BUT another one showed up after I closed the popup.
when I visited the site later nothing was detected... so I am not sure why or what has happened.
The one thing that MAY have been a cause is that my primary website has a popup and most of the other similar sites do not... I know often some AVs / firewalls do detect popups.... BUT I DONT think that they suggest that they are viruses.
Maybe the html code for the popup , that I was given from another source was corrupted ..
Another possibility, is that my site has been hacked and someone has inserted it.
I am a bit doubtful though as I am sure that they could have caused much more damage or deleted everything if they intended to.
I did mention about the trusted computer expert person at the recent internet seminar that I attended who asked to use
my pc to copy a cd to a thumb drive... I wondered later why when he had his own pc.
he was often stood behind me when I was using my machine and logging in.
I hope that he hasnt been responsible.
I just wondered if you have any suggestions other than I try and few alternaives with my website such as to remove the popup and see what happens or do another site, add it and test it.
this was the message I made to the forum.
cheers Dowsp
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As for my Other Primary Domain. I looked into that and to my dismay.... I found that it seems to have a problem or have a virus.
When I first set it up over a year ago... I was getting a message saying that it had a philsing problem. that google somehow detects and suggests that the site may be a security threat or untrustworthy.
I believe this often happens when a new site is set up, as google needs time to access it, so in the early period they warn a site may be untrustworthy especially if It has a payment button or credit card payment part on it.
At that time I had set up an adwords account with google and this problem had to be resolved , before I was able to run any adwords campaign. At this time it did get resolved and google OKed it....
NOW it seems somehow the problems back OR It was a virus that had in fact possibly causd these concerns.
I recently set up a new antivirus software programme to my site.
When I clicked on my Primary domains site... I am sorry to say that It found a virus..
According to the results Its nothing very serious fortunately... and if one has clicked on it and wants to be sure it is resolved , I suggest you download a free copy of Avira antivirus which detected it.
All I can do is appologise and I will look into HOW I obtained it and remove it if I can ASAP.
I suspect that it may be in the popup as Ive other copies of almost identical sites without the popup and they didnt show the virus.
what I want to now is HOW did it get there... was it some how within the webdesigners part of what he did for me
or was it in the code for the popup somehow..I cannot imagine its anything down to the parts that I did on my site as I dont know anything about creating a virus..... or has my site somehow been hacked !.. I do however think if it has been hacked that they could have done far more damage to it as most other things seem ok.
Anyway All I can hope for is that I can resolve any issues with it and hopefully find out how the virus got there.