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Hi all,

 

While making some page presentation adjustments to my website, I came across a problem which I am hoping someone else has encountered, and consequently can help me with.

 

I was comparing the presentation of my pages between my pc and my partners' laptop to fine tune the pages presentation between the different screen sizes when some unwanted links appeared on the the laptop's browser but not on my pc. When I checked the browser source code, there was no code related to the link, it displayed as text, as it should, but the link exists. The unwanted link has picked up the  CSS link formatting attributes.

 

I contacted my ISP and they confirm the server side is fine, and they could not replicate the problem. A possible explanation they gave is, that the laptop's browser must have some undesirable plugin, but they are not sure what can be done to prevent this. The page has no input, just text, and all my other input fields throughout the site have been sanitized.

 

I suggested that encrypting the page transmissions with SSL might solve the problem, but they did not think this would the solution. If someone has encountered this type of issue and provide a solution I would be extremely grateful.

 

Thank You,

 

Derek 

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Hi HartleySan,

 

Sorry I'm only responding now, been out of circulation for a few days.

 

Here is the generated source for the corrupted page. I have also included  copies of the link URL, which is not, from what I can see generated in the page source. 

 

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
    <title>Luxadry : The Carpet Dry Cleaning Specialists</title>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
    <link href="./includes_proc/style_c5.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
    <script>
          (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){
          (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),
          m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m)
          })(window,document,'script','//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga');
        
          ga('create', 'UA-40640088-1', 'luxadry.com.au');
          ga('send', 'pageview');
    
    </script>
</head>
<body>
<div class="all">
    <div class="box">
        <div class="menu">
            <a href="index_c5.php">Home</a>
            <a href="index_about_us.php">About Us</a>
            <a href="login.php">Login</a><a href="sub_sel.php">Register </a><a href="forgot_password.php">Forgot Your Password?</a><a href="contact.php">Contact Us</a><a href="sub_serve.php">Suburbs We Service</a>        </div>
        <div class="header">
            <img alt="" style="float:right; " src="./images/sun.jpg" width="250" height="95"/>
            <img alt="" style="float:left; " src="./images/sun.jpg" width="250" height="95"/>
            
            
            <h1>Luxadry</h1>
            <div class="clearfix"></div>
            <div class="newsbar">
                <h1>Obtain Estimate</h1>                <div class="p2">
                    <ul class="newslinks">
                        <li><a href="category.php?cat_id=1&cat=Carpet+Cleaning">Carpet Cleaning</a></li><li><a href="category.php?cat_id=3&cat=Drape+Cleaning">Drape Cleaning</a></li><li><a href="category.php?cat_id=2&cat=Upholstery+Cleaning">Upholstery Cleaning</a></li>                    </ul>
                </div>
                <h1>Display My Requirements List</h1>
                <div class="p2">
                    <ul class="newslinks"><li><a href="cart.php">My Requirements List So Far</a></li></ul><br />
                                    </div>
                <h1> Additional Functions</h1>
                <div class="p2">
                    <ul class="newslinks"><li><a href="stain_tip.php">Tip - manage major spills/accidents</a></li></ul>                </div>
                <h1> Current Specials.</h1>
                <div class="p2">
                    <p class="specials">
                        <b>Ask about our great protection and conditioning products, 60% discount!<br /><br /></b>
                    </p>
                </div>
            </div>
            <div class="content">
                <h2 align="center">The Carpet Dry Cleaning Specialists.</h2><p><b>Actions to take to manage spills and pet accidents.</b></p>
                 <p>In the unfortunate event of a major incident, such as the spilling a glass of wine, a cup of tea etc., or the unavoidable new puppy or kitten accident. Here is a simple and effective method to minimise the damage, and often successfully remove the stain.</p>
                 <ol>
                     <li>Fill any spray bottle with cold water and set nozzle to spray a mist of water.</li>
                     <li>Absorb excess spill with any absorbent paper towelling, sponge or cloth.</li>
                     <li>Liberally spray water on affected area.</li>
                     <li>Gently agitate and absorb excess moisture with paper towelling, sponge or cloth. If you have a good spot remover apply a little to general area.</li>
                     <li>Always apply carpet stain remover products conservatively (less is better). Never apply product to a dry carpet, especially woollen carpets.</li>
                     <li>Make sure the spray nozzle is set to produce a mist of product, never spray concentrated jets of product. </li>
                     <li>Do not rub hard or attempt to remove stain by rubbing, you will only damage the carpet pile doing this.</li>
                     <li>Reapeat this process a few times.</li>
                     <li>Double fold a dry, clean white towel (avoid coloured towels if possible, in case the colour runs into your carpet) and place over affected area.</li>
                     <li>Put anything clean and reasonably heavy such as books or coffee table turned upside down on top of towel.(This is the most important part of the process)</li>
                     <li>Leave for 12 hours, and repeat the process if the stain is still visible.</li>
                     <li>If stain does not disappear, make sure you keep repeating the above until we arrive. Contact us as soon as possible.</li>
                </ol><p><b>The above process works well and is safe to use.</b> If the stain involved is urine, we recommend a professional clean afterwards, to ensure the elimination of any residual bacteria etc., even if it appears the stain has been successfully removed.</p><img alt="" style="float:left; " src="./images/naughty_pup.jpg" width="150" height="195"/><img alt="" style="float:right; " src="./images/accident.jpg" width="250" height="195"/>        </div>
                        <div class="clearfix"></div>
                        <div class="footer" width="80%">Copyright©2013, Luxadry</div>
            </div>
    </div>
</div>

    </body>
</html>

 

 

The copy of the links are:

 

http://economicalerts.org/au/?&t202id=300220&t202kw=process%20works&match=&c3=&ne=
Linked to the text :   process works

http://i.trkjmp.com/click?v=QVU6MjE0ODE6NjpuZXcgcHVwcHk6M2I5MDhkMDFiYzBmNDk0N2ZlYzM1YWY3NDY5M
jJjYzY6ei0xMzIyLTE4MjI4Mjp3d3cubHV4YWRyeS5jb20uYXU6MTI1NzI6NDhjNTY1YjQzNzExOGY5ZDBiNjI5ZDEzY2ZlMjI5NTU
Linked to the text: new puppy

 

 

 



http://i.trkjmp.com/click?v=QVU6Mzg1MzQ6MjMxNTphcHBseTozNWRkNzVmZGQyM2E0NjBkNTljMTUzMjE1MDk2Yz
diMDp6LTEzMjItMTgyMjgyOnd3dy5sdXhhZHJ5LmNvbS5hdTo0NTQxNDplYTRkYjAyMmY5MWFiYzQ1ZTY4Nzc1ZTQwODM3MTVkOA

Linked to the text: apply

 

 

The source code for the uncorrupted version is:

 

 

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
    <title>Luxadry : The Carpet Dry Cleaning Specialists</title>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
    <link href="./includes_proc/style_c5.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
    <script>
          (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){
          (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),
          m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m)
          })(window,document,'script','//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga');
        
          ga('create', 'UA-40640088-1', 'luxadry.com.au');
          ga('send', 'pageview');
    
    </script>
</head>
<body>
<div class="all">
    <div class="box">
        <div class="menu">
            <a href="index_c5.php">Home</a>
            <a href="index_about_us.php">About Us</a>
            <a href="logout.php">Logout</a><a href="change_password.php">Change Your Password</a><a href="contact.php">Contact Us</a><a href="sub_serve.php">Suburbs We Service</a>        </div>
        <div class="header">
            <img alt="" style="float:right; " src="./images/sun.jpg" width="250" height="95"/>
            <img alt="" style="float:left; " src="./images/sun.jpg" width="250" height="95"/>
            
            
            <h1>Luxadry</h1>
            <div class="clearfix"></div>
            <div class="newsbar">
                <h1>Select Services To Order</h1>                <div class="p2">
                    <ul class="newslinks">
                        <li><a href="category.php?cat_id=1&cat=Carpet+Cleaning">Carpet Cleaning</a></li><li><a href="category.php?cat_id=7&cat=Carpet+Products">Carpet Products</a></li><li><a href="category.php?cat_id=3&cat=Drape+Cleaning">Drape Cleaning</a></li><li><a href="category.php?cat_id=4&cat=Flood+Restoration">Flood Restoration</a></li><li><a href="category.php?cat_id=9&cat=General">General</a></li><li><a href="category.php?cat_id=2&cat=Upholstery+Cleaning">Upholstery Cleaning</a></li><li><a href="category.php?cat_id=8&cat=Upholstery+Products">Upholstery Products</a></li>                    </ul>
                </div>
                <h1>Display My Requirements List</h1>
                <div class="p2">
                    <ul class="newslinks"><li><a href="cart.php">My Requirements List So Far</a></li></ul><br />
                    <a href="unset.php">Remove Order Session Vars(Temp)</a><br />                </div>
                <h1> Additional Functions</h1>
                <div class="p2">
                    <ul class="newslinks"><li><a href="stain_tip.php">Tip - manage major spills/accidents</a></li></ul><a href="view_area.php">Work With Areas</a><br /><a href="view_prod_cat.php">Work With Services</a><br /><a href="sales_acts.php">Work With Sales Activities</a><br /><a href="view_constants.php">Work With Constants</a><br /><a href="sel_cus_new.php">Customer search and their orders</a><br /><a href="ord_sel_open.php">Open Order Processing</a><br /><a href="calender_content.php">Calender Content</a><br /><a href="add_cust.php?type=res">Create New Res Customer</a><br /><a href="add_cust.php?type=com">Create New Comm Customer</a><br /><a href="not_served.php">Check Non Serviced Suburb</a><br /><a href="pricing.php">Product Prices</a><br /><a href="jobs_sel.php">Print Jobs</a><br />                </div>
                <h1> Current Specials.</h1>
                <div class="p2">
                    <p class="specials">
                        <b>Ask about our great protection and conditioning products, 60% discount!<br /><br /></b>
                    </p>
                </div>
            </div>
            <div class="content">
                <h2 align="center">The Carpet Dry Cleaning Specialists.</h2><p><b>Actions to take to manage spills and pet accidents.</b></p>
                 <p>In the unfortunate event of a major incident, such as the spilling a glass of wine, a cup of tea etc., or the unavoidable new puppy or kitten accident. Here is a simple and effective method to minimise the damage, and often successfully remove the stain.</p>
                 <ol>
                     <li>Fill any spray bottle with cold water and set nozzle to spray a mist of water.</li>
                     <li>Absorb excess spill with any absorbent paper towelling, sponge or cloth.</li>
                     <li>Liberally spray water on affected area.</li>
                     <li>Gently agitate and absorb excess moisture with paper towelling, sponge or cloth. If you have a good spot remover apply a little to general area.</li>
                     <li>Always apply carpet stain remover products conservatively (less is better). Never apply product to a dry carpet, especially woollen carpets.</li>
                     <li>Make sure the spray nozzle is set to produce a mist of product, never spray concentrated jets of product. </li>
                     <li>Do not rub hard or attempt to remove stain by rubbing, you will only damage the carpet pile doing this.</li>
                     <li>Reapeat this process a few times.</li>
                     <li>Double fold a dry, clean white towel (avoid coloured towels if possible, in case the colour runs into your carpet) and place over affected area.</li>
                     <li>Put anything clean and reasonably heavy such as books or coffee table turned upside down on top of towel.(This is the most important part of the process)</li>
                     <li>Leave for 12 hours, and repeat the process if the stain is still visible.</li>
                     <li>If stain does not disappear, make sure you keep repeating the above until we arrive. Contact us as soon as possible.</li>
                </ol><p><b>The above process works well and is safe to use.</b> If the stain involved is urine, we recommend a professional clean afterwards, to ensure the elimination of any residual bacteria etc., even if it appears the stain has been successfully removed.</p><img alt="" style="float:left; " src="./images/naughty_pup.jpg" width="150" height="195"/><img alt="" style="float:right; " src="./images/accident.jpg" width="250" height="195"/>        </div>
                        <div class="clearfix"></div>
                        <div class="footer" width="80%">Copyright©2013, Luxadry</div>
            </div>
    </div>
</div>

    </body>
</html>

 

 

I hope this helps. Your interest in this matter is much appreciated.

 

Kind Regards

 

Derek

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