# Quick--take a look at the publisher web site! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 4, 2017, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-take-a-look-at-the-publisher-web-site/792765 "2017-08-04T13:15:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2017, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-take-a-look-at-the-publisher-web-site/792765/1 "2017-08-04T13:15:45Z")
Harper Voyager UK has been hacked, and [every article there](http://harpervoyagerbooks.co.uk/) is now about cheap Chinese jerseys. Enjoy it before they fix it. ---
**Author:** ![Evan\_Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b487fb/32.png) [@Evan\_Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evan_Drake)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2017, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-take-a-look-at-the-publisher-web-site/792765/2 "2017-08-04T15:44:58Z")
Interesting. Though from a quick glance the site sucked so much it may be an improvement. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2017, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-take-a-look-at-the-publisher-web-site/792765/3 "2017-08-04T16:24:42Z")
hAH! ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2017, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-take-a-look-at-the-publisher-web-site/792765/4 "2017-08-04T16:36:55Z")
Where’s the little “Report this entire website” button? ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2017, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-take-a-look-at-the-publisher-web-site/792765/5 "2017-08-04T16:52:41Z")
> [@MEBuckner](#): > > Where’s the little “Report this entire website” button? Probably been changed into a “1-click buy all the cheap Chinese NFL jerseys” button. The hack not only inserts commercial links into the pages but also adds tons of text seemingly randomly picked up from other web sites. And plugging one interesting passage into Google showed that Harper Voyager is [not the only victim](https://www.google.com/search?q=%22a+couple+of+hours+there+was+nothing+left+of+him+but+his+teeth+and+the+tuft+of+his+tail%22&oq=%22a+couple+of+hours+there+was+nothing+left+of+him+but+his+teeth+and+the+tuft+of+his+tail%22&gs_l=psy-ab.3...40426.51084.0.51561.2.2.0.0.0.0.841.841.6-1.1.0....0...1.1.64.psy-ab..1.0.0.JWBg__3uiCc). ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2017, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-take-a-look-at-the-publisher-web-site/792765/6 "2017-08-04T17:34:14Z")
It’s all fun and games until someone gets their computer malware’d. :o I’d be cautious. Drive-by infection is too easy, and whoever set up those subpages has already demonstrated their lack of respect for the law and people’s online system integrity. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2017, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-take-a-look-at-the-publisher-web-site/792765/7 "2017-08-04T19:48:37Z")
This is why installing pre-made CMS platforms (like Wordpress) as your website freaks me out, as a developer/host. Every website log I’ve ever seen is full of entries from bots scanning for every known and unknown vulnerability in the code, trying to hack your shit. All day, every day. Every so often, they hit and you end up with this. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2017, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-take-a-look-at-the-publisher-web-site/792765/8 "2017-08-04T20:12:55Z")
If you were to read the “articles” you’d probably find links to some website selling jerseys. This attack is likely an attempt to increase their own site’s Google ranking by creating back links on other sites. This type of thing hasn’t worked since the 90s and this is a particularly inept attempt anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Evan\_Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b487fb/32.png) [@Evan\_Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evan_Drake)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2017, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-take-a-look-at-the-publisher-web-site/792765/9 "2017-08-04T20:50:49Z")
You’d think they could have put the site in abeyance by now…