Re: Site Defacement

Paul,

I bettcha that's what happened. These files have not been recently uploaded,
so it's not a file transfer issue --they have been in use for a long time,
and nothing like this has ever happened on this site, or any site I have
managed. So, just a simple file corruption due to temporary problems the
host is experiencing? Good --it was easy to fix anyway --just replaced the
file.

Thanks,
Lauren


----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Wilson" <webgooru(at)gte.net>
To: "Lauren Hanka" <bluejay(at)starband.net>; <hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 7:04 AM
Subject: Re: Site Defacement


>
> > It's not my site, but one I maintain for a very competitive equestrian
> > facility, managing beautiful & very high valued show horses...
> >
> > At any rate, why would a jpg be scrambled? What would cause this?
>
> It probably is not a defacement, but good old fashioned file corruption.
> The host company might have had some type of problem.  The few times I ran
> into problems like this or new files that dissapeared overnight, it was a
> host problem.  Often they shift things from one computer to another or
have
> other problems they don't tell you about and then they restore things from
> backup.  Sometimes a file just gets corrupted.
>
> My experience with this type of thing is usually that the host company
will
> only admit it when an experienced techy type squeezes the truth out of
them.
> Hosts don't want to admit they have security holes, equipment problems or
> less backup power or even fewer pipelines to the internet than their
> competators. If you added all the host companies on the Internet that said
> they had multiple OC-3 connections up, you would find the Internet was
1000
> times bigger than it actually is.
>
> Paul Wilson
> webgooru(at)gte.net
>

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