My sympathies, Jeff. I’m still trying to recover. I do wonder about the webhosting company, Dreamhost, and what role they might have played in it.
That said, I had installed a number of phpBB boards and Wordpress installations that I neglected and failed to update (because they weren’t being used, for the most part) and so I certainly may have opened myself up to a backdoor invasion (so to speak).
Some of my websites, such as the teen driving thing, I had moved sometime ago to Google. chiffandfipple.com and righthandpointing.com, with Rich’s help, are rebuilt and reconfigured and I’m hoping they’ll be ok for the long haul.
yeah I know, the one-click installs make it too easy to install wordpress and crap all over the place and then forget it. I’ve had a bit of a cleanup at my sites this weekend.
I’ve not had any troubles on this site, nor anything turn up for awhile in my daily virus scans. Many times when something of this nature happens, it is the host’s server that gets attacked/infected - allowing it to hit the clients’ sites. Hard to say without being there.
Happy Thoughts, Dale. Thank you for all your hard work!
It figures… Bill Gates is soooo jealous of The Undisputed, and now has resorted to petty vengence… expect to see Dale Force 1 in the air until this all blows over…
