Hacked Off

Posted by Atlanta Jones on Dec 8, 2009 in General | 0 comments

So I actually found some time to check in on the blog and maybe post a couple things, when I realize the site isn’t loading. Not entirely surprising, as this site is on my cheapie Dreamhost server, which isn’t known for its speed. But it wasn’t coming up at all.

Further inspection of my files looked suspiciously like my WordPress install had been compromised. I got a couple files cleaned up and sure enough, the site was redirecting to some “virus alert” scam site. The kind of thing that does a fake system scan, says you have viruses, and tries to get you to give you money for a “solution”. I know from first-hand experience that people do, in fact fall for this.

So instead of going to bed at 11:00 as I’d hoped, I’m now going to bed at 1am after fixing it. Took this opportunity to get set up with a clean copy straight from the subversion repo at WordPress. Been setting WP up that way lately to make upgrades as simple as running ‘svn update’.

So anyways, no post tonight, thanks to some hacker ass-hats. But I’ve got some things going on that will result in more blog posts. More soon.