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Would it be better to..

Posted By: Michelle Nightengale <Director@NOSPAMeCommunicationsInstitute.com>
Thursday, 29 June 2006, at 5:41 p.m.

...just scrap my Web site altogether and start over? The domain would still be mine.

I am SOOOO aggravated right now with my spam problem. I posted my problem on the developers board at Scripts.com and they've been helping me a little. Apparently, someone IS hijacking the PHP script that runs my Thank You/Contact form and using it to send spam appearing to be from ME!

I've deleted everything in my main directory, which I believe, included the PHP Thank You file. Shouldn't getting rid of the script stop the spam??? But I'm still getting tons of it in my inbox.

AllWebCo provides a lot of features and extras, like a lot of free scripts. I'm not sure what to delete and what not to delete. Since I'm in the process of revamping my site, would it be better to just cancel everything and start over with a new hosting package and go through the whole set-up process again when I'm ready? The only problem I see with that is that I'll have the same domain, e-mail address and e-mail aliases. So would I just encounter the same problem all over again???

AllWebCo is very reliable and I've been pretty happy with them. But their tech support isn't helping me at all here. I've sent numerous messages and am NOT getting the help I need. And I've contacted them several different ways. I know that the spam is not their problem -- it's mine. But in order to resolve it, I need them to answer my questions.

As for deleting the offending script -- well, I don't know what's what. I relied on my designer to do nearly everything and it looks like that was a mistake since I don't know what's what and what I can delete without causing major problems to my site.

Does anybody have any suggestions? My designer did the work a while back and though I've contacted her about re-designing the site, she can't get to it for a couple of weeks. In the meantime, she's unresponsive to me.

Thanks for any and all suggestions!

Sincerely,
Michelle

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