Posterous theme by Cory Watilo

Filed under: hack

Site Repair (pardon my dust)

I'm going to be playing around with themes a bit today, please bear with me. I'm trying to find something that works with minimal plugins. In regards to the malware warning, Google has re-scanned the site and found it malware free. Again, sorry about that. There was never any danger from this site, there was a link embedded into the code that linked to a bad site. Unless you actually clicked on that link, you were in no danger... and it wasn't a clickable link. I'm assuming they do it to get link referrals for ads or Google juice or something. BAD HACKERS. LEAVE MY BLOG ALONE. /cry

I'm sorry!

If you're getting the Google warning page... I've thoroughly checked the site, and there is no actual malware, so you're not infected. What DID happen was someone managed to hack my .htaccess file and add a link to a site known to have malware. If it makes you feel better, by all means run a virus scan! I immediately rebooted my computer into safe mode and ran a complete scan to make sure I didn't have any keyloggers or anything nasty. I'm thinking one of my plugins had a vulnerability (my backup plugin, of all things) that let them access my files. I've completely deleted the old site and rebuilt from a backup, so there is nothing remaining but the Google warning page, which hopefully will be gone soon. I've requested a review through the Webmaster Tools, and it shouldn't take long to clear now that the site is clean. *fingers crossed* What this means for the site is that I'm going to redesign and use quite a bit fewer plugins and hope that I can avoid any more vulnerabilities. If anyone has any experience with Wordpress security, feel free to toss some suggestions my way, I'd be happy to listen. tl;dr - Someone hacked me, there's no actual virus, I'm redoing the site. Warning page should be down soon. Don't kill me. >.<