tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19248375.post7873390126706910658..comments2023-10-18T05:54:12.748-07:00Comments on IncrediBILL's Random Rants: Apollo Hosting Shared Server Customers Appear To Be HackedIncrediBILLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14244934627308399202noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19248375.post-86774908806592626312008-10-29T23:01:00.000-07:002008-10-29T23:01:00.000-07:00Interestingly, all of my Apollo Hosting domains we...Interestingly, all of my Apollo Hosting domains were hacked earlier in the year EXCEPT the one that started with "A". <BR/><BR/>Since I have installed their "FTP Security" feature I have not had a problem. However just yesterday they reset all my FTP passwords and told me my FTP access had been hacked. I see no evidence that any files were tampered with as had happened on previous occasions.Jeremy Snavelyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05671340134009534645noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19248375.post-90162498209478222932008-09-24T21:31:00.000-07:002008-09-24T21:31:00.000-07:00my friend's apollohosting site got hacked this wee...my friend's apollohosting site got hacked this week. i guess it's working its way down to 's'.<BR/><BR/>it's stupid that they blame the FTP client. I use the same client for multiple sites, but only apollohosting got hacked.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19248375.post-88845363956719522732008-07-05T09:02:00.000-07:002008-07-05T09:02:00.000-07:00Wow. This makes so much sense now. I have a hostin...Wow. This makes so much sense now. I have a hosting account with Apollo, and it starts with an A. The other sites hosted under my account weren't affected, just the a's.<BR/><BR/>I've been hesistant to switch because it's easier, but I will be switching now, as Apollo doesn't seem to be terribly interested in fixing this.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19248375.post-45922525793242527872008-06-26T16:03:00.000-07:002008-06-26T16:03:00.000-07:00I just talked to tech-support at Apollo Hosting fo...I just talked to tech-support at Apollo Hosting for close to an hour. I do search engine work and my client on Apollo was hacked. Badly hacked. <BR/><BR/>Before I talked to them I removed all the hacked content, setup robots.txt to exclude the pages, setup .htaccess to count the pages as 404s, setup Google sitemaps to exclude the content, and had Yahoo! manually review the content (Yahoo! won't Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19248375.post-2813644962054671542008-06-14T22:45:00.000-07:002008-06-14T22:45:00.000-07:00Apollohosting has finally done something about thi...Apollohosting has finally done something about this. They have installed an "FTP security" feature which when enabled allows FTP access only from designated IP addresses. So far so good. I was the victim of several FTP hacks on Apollohosting but not since enabling this new fix.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19248375.post-67797242509325490282008-05-05T14:29:00.000-07:002008-05-05T14:29:00.000-07:00Minor errors in the previous post just in case it ...Minor errors in the previous post just in case it is of help to anyone else:<BR/><BR/>My employer's site was on<BR/>secure13.apollohosting.com<BR/>My personal site was on<BR/>secure18.apollohosting.comAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19248375.post-29202333499035082402008-05-05T14:25:00.000-07:002008-05-05T14:25:00.000-07:00Thanks for this info, Bill. My employer and I wer...Thanks for this info, Bill. My employer and I were both ApolloHosting customers for a few years. We moved our company website to a dedicated server last year after consistent outages were killing our website. Then, I found the same type of pharmas link on my website which was hosted on secure13.apollohosting.com. I racked my brain trying to figure out what I did wrong in my code then found Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19248375.post-19727183771815449902008-04-04T09:02:00.000-07:002008-04-04T09:02:00.000-07:00I can't advise on legal action but I can tell you ...I can't advise on legal action but I can tell you they aren't the only hosts that appear to be hacked with pharma link farms.<BR/><BR/>Take a look at this:<BR/><A HREF="http://www.thewhir.com/marketwatch/122007_Servers_Hacked_to_Boost_Google_Rank.cfm" REL="nofollow"> http://www.thewhir.com/marketwatch/122007_Servers_Hacked_to_Boost_Google_Rank.cfm</A>IncrediBILLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14244934627308399202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19248375.post-84951077013403120952008-04-03T20:32:00.000-07:002008-04-03T20:32:00.000-07:00I had one of my sites on Apollo hacked in late Dec...I had one of my sites on Apollo hacked in late December. After repeated contacts I was told for the most part it was my fault. I asked about log files of theirs that would show the culprets. Was told their logs are discarded after 2-3 days. I increased the size and how often my logs were kept. After about 30 days my logs were enormous. Well, end of March I noticed the same type phrama codeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19248375.post-15043697462975905412008-03-22T18:47:00.000-07:002008-03-22T18:47:00.000-07:00I used to run a hosting company and I've seen a si...I used to run a hosting company and I've seen a single infected client site vs. an infected server and what I'm seeing on Apollo looks like exactly what happened to one of our shared servers once.<BR/><BR/>I hope you realize that email about having your FTP password being stolen is most likely total bullshit because the most common method of infiltrating a server is via some open source software IncrediBILLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14244934627308399202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19248375.post-66054149827901494982008-03-22T13:31:00.000-07:002008-03-22T13:31:00.000-07:00Several of my sites on Apollo Hosting have been ha...Several of my sites on Apollo Hosting have been hacked too. This has been happening since late 2007 and two of my sites were rehacked yesterday. Very annoying! Interestingly two of my domains on Apollohosting have never been hacked and a few have been hacked several times. The latest to be altered were on the Secure4 server.<BR/><BR/>Apollo sent me a boiler plate email today letting me know Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19248375.post-16705326499868832072008-03-16T11:22:00.000-07:002008-03-16T11:22:00.000-07:00I have been with apollo since 2001. I currently ha...I have been with apollo since 2001. I currently have business websites hosted with them. In January all index.html pages were hacked with pharma links embedded. In March severe cases of Internal Server Error 500 started for php pages - The only response from Tech Service has been "Sorry the problem has been corrected now" about 48hours after I submit my request and about 12h before it happens allAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19248375.post-54926740674155176812008-02-16T11:30:00.000-08:002008-02-16T11:30:00.000-08:00Don't know if it's related, but the timing and act...Don't know if it's related, but the timing and action suggests that it could be.<BR/><BR/>In early February, Apollo Hosting installed outbound "anti-spam" filters on their customers' smtp mail servers. Unfortunately, being this is Apollo Hosting and rather infamous for tech incompetence, the screwed up filter settings are blocking attachments and HTML formatting of their legit customers outboundAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com