My hubs have been taken! Have yours? Check here!

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   Ladybird33posted 14 years ago

   Hi All, severl of my hubs are appearing on a blogspot, and I had to report it to google.  Here is the site  www. secondsearch.blogspot.com/
   Go and see if you have of your hubs there (they are stealing a lot from hubpages).  If so, then go here to report them http://www.google.com/dmca.html

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   classicalgeekposted 14 years ago

   There's some malicious code on the second page, too--tried to "scan my PC for malicious files" which is a sure sign of malicious code.

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      Ladybird33posted 14 years agoin reply to this

      Yes, sad but true!

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      cosetteposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      oh boy
      
      i'm too scared to go look. i don't want my computer getting a virus...

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      h.a.borcichposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      Something happened to my computer when I went to check if my hubs were there

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   DogSiDaedposted 14 years ago

   I'm not sure giving them a link is a fantastic idea, and a warning to some, the website seems to be very keen to provide an array of pop ups. Yay.

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   Ladybird33posted 14 years ago

   Everyone can make there own call on this, but I believe awareness is better then doing nothing...they do have a lot of pop ups, so check out under "archive" see if your hubs are there and then get out.  I have gone in there 4 times, no harm done

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   xboxps3wowposted 14 years ago

   is there is a backlink to you hub? if not, report. Oh and go the site thru google, this way if there is malicious stuff on the site, google will warn you

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   Ladybird33posted 14 years ago

   I do and I did, THANKS for that info!!

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   Ladybird33posted 14 years ago

   Anybody else have this happen?

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   habeeposted 14 years ago

   I went to the google link. I have to write a letter?

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   Crazdwriterposted 14 years ago

   I'm with Cosette I'm scared too but thanks ladybird for telling us. CUTE pic by the way

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    sunforgedposted 14 years ago

    kind of you to give the site a live backlink...
    
    they are running all sorts of annoying ad scripts..you can report them to blogspot for TOS violations, you can file a DMCA with google to get them removed from the listings or you can even click on the "ads by google" image and report them to adsense for TOS violations and copyright violations. w/o revenue the site loses any reason to create..perhaps clicksor has a similar method to report by
    
    
    It has tons of hubpages on the site, there are other threads floating around about it. Just to point out, these little scraper sites arent much concern unless they are outranking your content.

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    skyfireposted 14 years ago

    If you notice any blogspot scraper site then report it on splogspot.com.

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    AEvansposted 14 years ago

    When I checked my system detected 8 viruses and 2 were Trojans so I am certainly not going to go back there. I had to scan my entire system and do updates. However thanks for the information.

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       IzzyMposted 14 years agoin reply to this

       Nasty site. I got a the third page of copied articles before AVG or a pop-up blocker or something on my computer wouldn't let me go further and booted me out.
       Then crashed!
       OK where was I? Oh yes there are copied articles there by MoneyGlitch, rmcrayne and TeaFor2 as well as others. I could identify them because the copier left in links to their other hubs at the foot of each article.

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          AEvansposted 14 years agoin reply to this

          It certainly is!

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       Brenda Durhamposted 14 years agoin reply to this

       Yup.  Beware of that link!!
       Like some others here, my computer got a T virus.  Hubby spent several hours running a scan and cleaning my computer files.
       

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    Richieb799posted 14 years ago

    If its a big problem, or a illegal site, Hubpages will sort them out I think, they look after us

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       sunforgedposted 14 years agoin reply to this

       no they wont

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          Pearldiverposted 14 years agoin reply to this

          Don't be apathetic. No they Won't..... sort it out for you.   
          They do not consider a Duty of Care exists in this regard

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    wavegirl22posted 14 years ago

    thanks for alerting us to this Ladybird - I too have just found out at least one of my Hubs is there.
    
    If anyone needs Whitney05 wrote a great Hub on what steps to take if this has happened to you.
    http://http://hubpages.com/hub/Copied-Content
    
    I feel so . . invaded:(

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    cashmereposted 14 years ago

    And I was wondering why my content was being copied. i am obviously not the only one.

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    WordPlayposted 14 years ago

    Google banned this blog, so all the duplicate content is gone. :-)

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