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The scam is relatively sophisticated. A series of links are added to a websites infected pages, creating link farms. Many of the links in the link farms direct back to target websites, some run by pharmaceutical companies. This artificially increases the target websites apparent popularity and therefore improves its ranking in search engines such as Yahoo! and Google. According to MD Webhosting, between 5 and 10 per cent of 20,000 customers were affected by the malicious code. The online edition of The Australian newspaper reported MD Webhostings Business Services Manager, Mr. Tom Najda, as suggesting the companys servers did not have proper security and its IP blocking systems and firewalls were "not up to scratch". A solution to the problem was established and implemented, but it did not stop some website owners having to take down their sites. |
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