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Question about scrubbing ripped landers (7)

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I ripped a couple landers from Adplexity a few months ago, tweaked it a bit and I been running them since. Now I am second guessing if I actually scrubbed it enough or if there are any redirect coding left. What would be a good way to check?

One way I thought I could test the landers is by opening the location link saved in my amazon S3. The lander would show up in my internet browser, I click thru all of the questions, and then it shouldn't direct me to any offer links right? When I do try this, it does direct me to an offer that I unfamiliar with. Does that mean there is another code that I need to delete?

Since I didn't open the Voluum Campaign URL directly, it shouldn't have an offer linked to that lander saved in Amazon S3 right?

Thanks!

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You'll need to check in the javascript itself if you've already changed the Voluum /click urls. If it's all compacted together you can use: http://jsbeautifier.org/

Typically you'd use the search function and look for things like urls and pieces of code like "document.location.href" and "document.location" followed by a url.

It shouldn't unless you've previously clicked a campaign url, and had a cookie created on your machine. You can verify by trying it again in a new private/incognito browser.

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Thanks!! this helped and it confirmed that I actually did remove all of the old links.

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Yes this can be sometimes very challenging.

Here are more tips and ideas:

Always replace the javascript libraries by your own ie. their CDN versions. This will eliminate the fact that the traffic hijacker script can be hidden for example in the jQuery code itself.

Do a search for "http", "/click" and also the javascript redirect functions as @thedudeabides recommended.

Best is to open all files in your code editor (I recommend Sublime Text) and do a global search in all files.

Sometimes there can be external links in CSS that are pretending to load external image, but in fact it can be a malicious JS/HTML page request.

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An extra benefit of this is that CDN versions are likely already cached on most devices so you improve your loadtimes too!

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^^^ Yeah, there are definitely more benefits that I can think of in the morning :-)

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Straight from the FAQ some of us TAs have put together during one of the 6WAMCs:

Hope it helps!



Amy

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