Any help is welcome. Anybody out there a PPH guru?
We are not out of the woods yet: Jane is trying to nail the rathole shut…
by CJ | Jan 6, 2010 | Journal | 8 comments
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Er. PHP Perhaps? What’s happening? I have access to such geeks as you might need.
I know php. What’s the problem?
mailed Jane my contact info
Bless you guys. We’ve been offline a few hours while Lynn has been on with our host, and has undertaken a fix. Basically, we were hit with zombie spam, and we think we have now plugged the rathole—but we are taking notes of those who have volunteered to help us. Lynn is battling a spam attack on her father’s site that has resurrected itself daily; we think ours is a wandering mindless zombie. Thank you sooooooooooooooo much, and we will keep these contacts as a resource for when the next plague hits—or this one recurs.
I believe there are 99.9999 percent good guys on the Web, of which you are the exemplar; and .0001 scum and virtual scum; and we may yet need you. Thank you, thank you, thank you, and we hope we’ve toughened our several sites to protect ourselves.
Wow,that has the sound of BIG guns! Wonderful and
many thanks from the peanut gallery. Too much work
and way too much sweat to watch it take hits from
the obnoxious few.
What Lynn has done is checked the security of the installation. There are some things we can do within our theme php files to make ourselves less vulnerable and we’re undertaking those now.
I still don’t know whether or not the code I zapped means anything, I just know it wasn’t in the original header file. I’ve sent the code in question to Steve (thanks, Steve!) But right now, I’m just waiting to see if the stupid links reappear.
Sheesh…quell pain. 😀
Glad you found the problem files, hope you’ll find the solution to secure yourselves against it in the future. I’m not PHP-savvy enough to offer, but if you need a troubleshooting eye in the future, I’ll be happy to help out.
Thank you all—we will see how our fix ‘took’ today!
If you want an interesting read, look up zombie spam and spambots on wikipedia. We now have virtual vermin floating the web: you live a day, you learn something. Like the real jungle, the virtual one has leeches aplenty.
We are now at least safer than we were.