I've been HACKED!

So, a couple of hours ago I got this rather alarming e-mail from lord Google. 

Dear site owner or webmaster of [my business site]


We recently discovered that some of your pages can cause users to be infected with malicious software. We have begun showing a warning page to users who visit these pages by clicking a search result on Google.com.


Here is a link to a sample warning page:
http://www.google.com/interstitial?url=http%3A//leifayre.ca/store/

 
We strongly encourage you to investigate this immediately to protect your visitors. Although some sites intentionally distribute malicious software, in many cases the webmaster is unaware because:
1) the site was compromised
2) the site doesn't monitor for malicious user-contributed content
3) the site displays content from an ad network that has a malicious advertiser


If your site was compromised, it's important to not only remove the malicious (and usually hidden) content from your pages, but to also identify and fix the vulnerability.

Once you've secured your site, you can request that the warning be removed by visiting
[crazy google support site]
and requesting a review. If your site is no longer harmful to users, we will remove the warning.

Sincerely,
Google Search Quality Team


Yeah.  How do you like THEM apples, huh?! GEEZE!  I read the first line, got confused and lost - is this even for REAL?? - called Mr. Man over aaaaaaaaaand.... there's definitely something going on.  BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!  And I spent TIME on it today, getting things updated and new stuff posted! 

I feel like a cyber criminal.  The owner/operator of a malicious website. sigh .... but I HAD NO IDEA!!  Apparently some smart guy who's a complete and total jackass meanie (does my mommy read this?) is sitting around with nothing better to do than to exploit little glitches in people's shopping cart software, so when people visit JEWELLERY websites, of ALL things, they're at risk of being infected by Google only KNOWS what! 

Gotta' tell ya', my heart rate sped up a few notches reading through that.  It sounds so official and scary, right?  And even when Mr. Man gets it all fixed and straightened out Google doesn't take down the warning until we APPLY for a REVIEW. 

Oy.

IN the meantime.... the website has been deactivated, so typing http://www.leifayre.ca will NOT give you a virus, but will in fact redirect you to our FACEBOOK PAGE! Hooray!  Where you can still view everything, 'like' the page, even, and then EASILY share it with all your friends!  Come on! You know you want to!  It's been a tough battle against the evil-cyber-bots hell-bent on destroying our little corner of the internet and hitting 100 'likes' would be fantastic. hahaha (You'd think with 400+ facebook super-close-pals I'd be able to find a quarter of them who like handmade jewellery, eh?  Geeze.....)

On a HAPPIER work note, wanna see what I made today?:-)





Huzzah!

I think it's time to call it a night. At least, productively speaking. Cheers!

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