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Sandra F Community Member

client's website has likely been hacked; it shows 'threat has been found'

This company posted an ad last week which, after clicking on the website, I was taken to a **Edited for Community Guidelines** site which I believe negatively influenced my computer, or at the very least, my Upwork communication.  I flagged it to Upwork and today I see a new ad from the same company.

 

I would suggest to please beware of this company / website, becuase many more freelancers will go to their site and potentially impact their computers.  Or, if nothing else, the client needs to know that their website has been hacked; I’ve upgraded my computer security becuase of all this, and their site now shows ‘a threat has been found’.

 

**Edited for Community Guidelines**

 

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Preston H Community Member

But you understand that if another website has problems, that has nothing to do with Upwork, right?

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Petra R Community Member


Sandra F wrote:

This company posted an ad last week which, after clicking on the website, I was taken to a **Edited for Community Guidelines** site which I believe negatively influenced my computer, or at the very least, my Upwork communication.  I flagged it to Upwork and today I see a new ad from the same company.


Their website is absolutely fine, no sign of porn or anything of the sort. It passed Google*s safe browsing test and there have been no reports about it.

 

When you say you "clicked on" the link, was there a link in the job post? There is certainly no link on the new job post!

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Sandra F Community Member

Hi Petra, I was just wondering if you had a chance to look into this situation - thanks....

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Sandra F Community Member

Hi Petra, I visited the site and clicked on the 'about us' which went strait to pornography.  When I saw the post again today (after safeguarding my computer) I did the same thing and got an instant notification of the 'threat'

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Preston H Community Member

But you understand that if another website has problems, that has nothing to do with Upwork, right?