SereneScreen Google search hacked?
A google search for the Serenescreen web site currently shows "Viagra for Sale". Is Jim diversifying his product line? :confused:
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Perhaps he's simply investigating aquarium remedies for people who live in "soft water" locales?
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Prolific is looking into it.
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The link goes to the right place... the description is a bit off though
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At some time in the future, the "situation" will undoubtedly be corrected. So, I thought it would be useful to post what this discussion is all about.
Googling "serenescreen" produces the following as the "top" hit, which normally means that serenescreen is paying for the privilege of being at the top of the list. Quote:
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I doubt Prolific is shelling out money to get to the top of the list.. so this could be considered a good thing.. sort of.
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The problem has been found and fixed by Prolific, but it will take a few days to filter through the system so that it shows up properly in Google. We don't pay anything to be at the top of the list. We've been there for 10 years.
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Looks like Prolific's web server may have gotten broken into. If you do a Google search for prolific, lifeglobe or serenescreen, then select the cached version of the Viagra result page, you'll get to see a text only version of what used to be there. Please be aware that I would be VERY careful about following any of the links at the bottom of that page though! At the very least, I recommend you run a sandboxed browser for that. If I had to guess, I'd say their server got broken into but they caught it and fixed it in a relatively short period of time. Unfortunately, a Google spider got there and crawled it before they were able to do so. Until Google recrawls the server and updates its database, Google searches for prolific, serenescreen and lifeglobe will all show the viagra link. |
Not too surprising - maintenance doesn't seem to be a giant priority. If you go to http://www.prolific.com/ and click on the "Now Hiring" box at the lower left, you get to
http://www.prolific.com/Jobs/ Positions available * MIS Assistant - 4/20/2007 * Web Designer - 4/17/2007 * UI Web Expert - 1/29/2007 On the other hand, I would never have known about the "Funnyfish" product without going to http://www.prolific.com/product/index.php?tid=6 |
I mentioned "Funnyfish"
http://www.lifeglobe.com/product/ Funnyfish - Beta - Windows It's been "Beta" since at least 2007. So, obviously, we shouldn't be concerned that MA3 has been "Beta" for a bit over a year. |
From my point of view all software is Beta, all the time.
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Just my $0.02 worth.... |
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However: Funnyfish is still being actively sold as "Funnyfish - Beta", and the .scr file is dated 3 years ago. The point is that Funnyfish has been "called Beta - without any changes, updates, or bug-fixes" for 3 years. There's no evidence of development or support. No "forum", except that patscarr noticed it in December 2007 https://www.feldoncentral.com/forums...ead.php?t=4218 |
Sorry - don't know anything about Funnyfish.
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My point was that Prolific's Funnyfish has been "called Beta - without any changes, updates, or bug-fixes" for 3 years. Prolific's MA3 Beta..... ....has a forum. |
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It shows just how the relationship between this forum and Prolific has deteriorated that they never even told me about Funnyfish. The price for me trying to hold them accountable. :(
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3 years? Web designers are hard to find? ;) |
Prolific's fix has filtered through the searchbots, and a Google search for SereneScreen now comes up with the proper text.
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Do you want me to mention Bing or just keep my mouth shut? ;)
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The problem was in the Prolific servers, not with the search engines. They were just reporting what they had found there. It's been fixed, but apparently Bing's searchbots are not as fast as Google's in updating sites.
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I guess I must again waste some more valuable time and repeat that I have never seen Funnyfish, and know nothing about it. Prolific probably thanked me for bringing the whole concept of doing screensavers to them, and giving them the code framework that they were based on.
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Every discussion you've ever started or participated in about the artistic integrity of the aquarium has always trodden upon familiar ground -- your fear that someone would add whimsical fish, gaudy backgrounds, and silly sound effects.
Something tells me when you found out about this product, it was an "Et tu, Brute?" moment. |
SereneScreen.com has been hacked again.
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Yeah, I stupidly clicke the funnyish link and noticed the hack. Plus, run a virus scan if you wnet there today. It tried to run a background process on me, but I cut it off at the pass.
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