I hope you can help !!!

[Arcadester]

The hosting co. I have now writes there sites in a crazy character encoding , and was wondering if anyone knows what it is... This is just part of it ;


!�B�l�u�e�V�o�d�a�!�ò��ÿþÿR�o�c�k� �S�o�l�i�d�


Does this look familiar to anyone??? My whole site is made like this . If i cant convert it , I will have to start all over... And I dont want to have to do that!!! Help Please...

[Pazeh]

posting a link to the site having this problem might help us to identify & maybe help you out.

[gwyneth]

Originally Posted by Pazeh

posting a link to the site having this problem might help us to identify & maybe help you out.

If Arcadester means his/her files are full of those characters now, don't post a link, because they may be malicious binaries or disassembled malicious Javascript, inserted into the files after being exploited.

It's hard to tell what s/he means about "write there files". While it's possible s/he is referring to obfuscated URLs, it's difficult to imagine a hosting company doing that to customers.

[striddy]

Originally Posted by Arcadester

The hosting co. I have now writes there sites in a crazy character encoding , and was wondering if anyone knows what it is... This is just part of it ;


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Does this look familiar to anyone??? My whole site is made like this . If i cant convert it , I will have to start all over... And I dont want to have to do that!!! Help Please...

If you are referring to, "BlueVoda is our in-house Drag & Drop website builder," then you will have to recreate you website from the beginning. That's another reason to not use proprietary site building software.

[Keith W]

Originally Posted by striddy

If you are referring to, "BlueVoda is our in-house Drag & Drop website builder," then you will have to recreate you website from the beginning. That's another reason to not use proprietary site building software.

Well spotted that man!

[gwyneth]

Originally Posted by gwyneth

While it's possible s/he is referring to obfuscated URLs, it's difficult to imagine a hosting company doing that to customers.

Unless it uses one of the proprietary apps David mentioned.

Originally Posted by striddy

If you are referring to, "BlueVoda is our in-house Drag & Drop website builder," then you will have to recreate you website from the beginning. That's another reason to not use proprietary site building software.

Although I guessed just the word Blue, it took David to figure out what the heck Blue Voda is! Great work, as Keith said.

The OP might have mentioned that s/he uses his current hosting firm's site building application....it's always useful to provide "the rest of the story".

@Pazeh, the combination of strange characters in files and bewilderment on the part of the file owner is almost always a good reason to at least be cautious about visiting such a site. As it turns out, it probably wouldn't have been a problem in this case, but with that combination, even fora for security types would discourage a clickable link.

[striddy]

Originally Posted by Keith W

Well spotted that man!

Originally Posted by gwyneth

it took David to figure out what the heck Blue Voda is! Great work, as Keith said.

Some days I'm just lucky with the google searches.