Site Outage
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It was 4/20, which apparently has some significance in stoner culture; this might have been related.
In my experience stoners are not the best of hackers. Gamers yes, but fairly unmotivated to hack much … My money is on coincidence. Unless of course the site got hacked @ 4:20, on 4/20 … Then that might be a little to much of a coincidence. 😉
I’m not getting any messages anymore. Yesterday i got the SecurityTool malware from youre home page.
SecurityTool malware can be remove by running MalwareBytes Antimalware.
Glad you found it quickly, we had a simmilar problem e few months ago with a virus that steels youre ftp accounts and logs in to every server you have in your ftp software. It infected alot of files that time.
This is not my issue, guys; this is an issue with my host’s shared hosting package security. There’s nothing I can do except clean it back up. Which I am doing now; the site evidently got hacked again last night but I’m set up to clean it quickly now.
Specifically, for those of you who speak computer, my host, Network Solutions, has had an issue with its global permission settings in the root directory for the entire shared server I am on.
Ok, it’s clean again. If anyone gets any spyware warnings let me know.
As always, you should have local spyware protection on any Windows machine, while Macintosh computers are not affected by this particular kind of bug (the one which was on this site). If you are running a Windows computer without spyware protection, I recommend downloading and running AdAware from Lavasoft, which is free and does a good job of cleaning up computers.
It looks like my host is primarily getting hacked in the overnight hours.
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