Web programmers, how can such a thing happen and is there anything I can do about it?

Asked by LostInParadise (32182

) April 5th, 2013

This is one weird problem, which I am guessing is due to a computer virus. I wanted to use Visual Studio 2010 to create a Web program. I created a project, and just using the default Web page that comes with it, tried to run it.

The program gave this strange scripting error on a dynamically created page. The script page had this ominous sounding variable named BlacklistInLineHosts. A Web search on that name turned up a single match, which is identical to the script page that I got, at Gold Media. Any ideas what is going on?

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It would be helpful if you could upload at minimum a screenshot of the error message, at best the code of the page as well. To me it sounds like a social media add-on script that has some issues, but that is barely an educated guess.

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The link is to Gold Page Media. Here’s Yahoo’s listing on them, including an 800 number. You don’t risk a lot by giving them a call and seeing if you can scope out what they are about. From what little I can gather without putting my own machine at too much risk, they are in web marketing and that might well include spam, spambots, and email harvesters.

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