Children’s Site Hacked by Porn Sites. It Happen to You!

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Children’s Site Hacked by Porn Sites

BELMONT,CA. – February 17 (Silly Billy’s World)-Could your website turn into a Porn Site over night. After a 10 year presence on the Net, this is what almost happened to Silly Billy’s World (http://www.sillybilly.com), one of the oldest and established children’s web sites on the internet.

On January, 28 of this year, Author/Computer Illustrator, Bill Dallas Lewis received an email from a total stranger alerting him that when she went to his site, Silly Billy’s World was attempting to open a web site called missbabes.com. The emailer added that she didn’t think Mr. Lewis would want children’s site visitors to see such smut unexpectedly.

Mr. Lewis immediately visited his site. Sure enough, when attempting to open each and every page on his site, his browser was attempting to go to porn sites.

Mr. Lewis contacted his web host, affinity.com and was instantly connected with technical support. Affinity’s staff found a combination of PHP, JavaScript and Applets that had been added to his pages, and placed among his internet files on his site.

Mr. Lewis, fluent in html and other web languages worked for many hours getting rid of the problems. Now his site is back, and Affinity has assured him that strict, security measures have been set in place to prevent this from happening again.

The real problem is that Mr. Lewis is an experienced internet programmer. For the millions of web sites that exist, most sites are developed by contractors, thus thousands of good people and organizations such as schools, businesses and churches with sites, would have no idea how to eliminate the unwanted code to restore the original content.

Mr. Lewis, with degrees from Dartmouth and Ohio State stated, “I’ve worked with kids for years. I teach them computer graphics and write stories for them. Why target me?”
He added, “The bad thing is that this could happen to anybody. People put everything on the line to have a web presence, and one hacker can ruin their lives or business’ in one hour.”

Mr. Lewis added that he is now talking with the FBI to see what can be done.

Interview Contact:Bill Dallas Lewis, Silly Billy’s World
Telephone:650-346-5553
sillbill@well.com
http://www.sillybilly.com