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MooseMoney
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Malicious URL

Post by MooseMoney » Mon Feb 06, 2023 8:18 am

Our google ads have been suspended for few days now and when I asked them why they said that our website contains a malicious URL. I have no clue where to find this url! The URL specified by google ads support is

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Any idea how to find this url?
Last edited by imanickam on Mon Feb 06, 2023 9:19 am, edited 1 time in total.
Reason: Removed the malicious url mentioned in the post
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Re: Malicious URL

Post by pe7er » Mon Feb 06, 2023 4:09 pm

MooseMoney wrote: ↑
Mon Feb 06, 2023 8:18 am
Any idea how to find this url?
You could create a backup of your website (e.g. using Akeeba backup) and unpack it locally. Create an SQL backup of the database and put it locally in the same folder.

Use a decent IDE or editor that has a good search function and search the code + SQL of the database for that URL.
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Re: Malicious URL

Post by S3ro7low » Tue Mar 07, 2023 5:52 pm

Dose the cloudflare website be useful in this case ?
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