Tech: Christy Moore website

Subject: Tech: Christy Moore website
From: GUEST,Shaneo not logged in
Date: 25 May 08 - 09:18 AM

Has Christy Moore's site being hacked ? if you do a google search for Christy Moore, his site comes up No1, when you click on his site it takes you somewhere else that's not the real Christy site, if the site has being ''hacked'' how can this happen. another thought, maybe it's my computer that's acting up ?

Subject: RE: Tech: Christy Moore website
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 25 May 08 - 09:35 AM

I've just googled it searching only Irish pages, and it seems fine - ??? And, just to be sure to be sure, I tried typing in the URL from scratch, also no prob. Anyway: http://www.christymoore.com/

Subject: RE: Tech: Christy Moore website
From: GUEST,Shaneo not logged in
Date: 25 May 08 - 09:44 AM

Thank you, it seems fine now, the site I landed on before had the exact same URL as the real Christy site, strange how that could happen

Subject: RE: Tech: Christy Moore website
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 25 May 08 - 10:24 AM

One of Life's Little Mysteries.

Thanks for the link to Christy's website, I had a lovely time there. I met him in 1997 when he gave tickets to my Irish friends & after a fantastic concert we had a great time singing in the greenroom (my first folk brush with fame!) & I started collecting his music.

sandra

Subject: RE: Tech: Christy Moore website
From: Tangledwood
Date: 25 May 08 - 06:53 PM

"if the site has being ''hacked'' how can this happen"

Shaneo, I don't know how, and if I did I wouldn't post the details on a forum anyway! Unfortunately the fact is that sites can be hacked. I'm co-administrator of a hobby site which got hacked a few months ago. A virus was piggy-backed to our home page so that unsuspecting visitors, including myself, downloaded it. (my anti-virus program didn't detect it) There are so many nasty things that can be done.

The lesson is, if something looks suspicious get out quick, and never surf without good security.

Subject: RE: Tech: Christy Moore website
From: Peace
Date: 25 May 08 - 07:12 PM

Possibly you typed in net or org instead of com. If so, some sob may have bought those addresses and put other stuff there.

Thanks to a good friend, I was able to get all three: com, net and org for my own site. It's a wise move because it prevents that kind of thing from happening. I take no credit for thinking of that. My friend told me what he'd done and I was impressed as I am by anyone who understands computers and the www.

Subject: RE: Tech: Christy Moore website
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 26 May 08 - 01:32 AM

excellent advice to grab similar sites, Peace.

I mistyped a friend's site one day (could have clicked on said site in the signature of any of his emails, but, no, I knew his address!) and ended up on a porn site. I've never left any site so quickly.

sandra

Subject: RE: Tech: Christy Moore website
From: Mysha
Date: 26 May 08 - 04:56 AM

Hi,

Then again, if any other organisation has a good reason to use the same address as you do, there won't be a .com, .net or, I take it, .org for them to use. It's like disallowing songs with the same title. There's a good side to it, but songs would get ever less catchy titles because the good ones were taken.

So, does anyone know a song about a URL, yet?
                                                                  Mysha

Subject: RE: Tech: Christy Moore website
From: Tangledwood
Date: 26 May 08 - 06:37 PM

Bernard Carney - My Little Dot Com
close enough?

Subject: RE:LYR ADD: Bernard Carney - My Little Dot Com
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 26 May 08 - 07:24 PM

might as well have the words!


Bernard Carney's website

My Little Dot Com
Words and Music Bernard Carney


She is my little dot com
She really turns me on
She has the software that i need
And i'm taking a risk
That there's room on her disc for me

She is my little dot com
I don't know where she's from
But if her motherboard allows
When she gives me the wink
Then i'll click on her link and browse

I get random access to her web address
She has the laptop for my downloads
She's digitally desirous never had a virus
She knows i've got the plug ins
To crack her codes

Oh little dot com she really turns me on
She gets me in the gygabytes
And i'm building up nerve
For the service that she provides

Inst

Her peripheral solutions
Give me terminal delusions
Because she doesn't even know who i am
But when she scrolls my page
She'll never disengage
When she hears about my 256 megs of ram

Oh little dot com She really turns me on
And if our paths collide
I'll be taking a risk that there's room on her disc
I'll click on her link if she gives me the wink
Yes i'm building up nerve
For the service that she provides

Subject: RE: Tech: Christy Moore website
From: Tangledwood
Date: 27 May 08 - 02:03 AM

Thank you Sandra!   :)