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By: Welcome to my new home – Fagstein

Welcome to my new home – Fagstein — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 23:47:53 +0000

[...] years with U.S.-based SiteGround, and not particularly impressed with their customer service after an unfortunate emergency a little while back, I decided to wait until my two-year agreement had expired and move the site to [...]

By: Marc

Marc — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 03:49:29 +0000

All good now!

By: Fagstein

Fagstein — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 03:42:40 +0000

Sigh. Made the same mistake I made before and put the code in the wrong place. It should start working now.

By: Marc

Marc — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:00:02 +0000

The comments are fine. The only thing is that the replies don't appear under the replied-to comment.

By: Fagstein

Fagstein — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 07:17:09 +0000

They look fine to me.

By: David Pinto

David Pinto — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 03:13:15 +0000

Is this the reason the comments are showing up on the screen sorta funny-looking?

By: Fagstein

Fagstein — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:21:33 +0000

I saw it, and upgraded as soon as it was released. I don't think it's directly related to the vulnerability that was exploited here though.

By: Fagstein

Fagstein — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:50:34 +0000

Don't think I haven't considered having "database malfunctions" concerning that particular post.

By: James Lawlor

James Lawlor — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:05:59 +0000

Just think how horrible it would be to lose all the comments to "Howard Galganov is still an idiot" post. Your (and your readers) attempt to break the World Record would be for naught!

By: emdx

emdx — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:05:27 +0000

This comes with having too many people working for two, and the rest of them not working at all.

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:15:50 +0000

Have a look at this blog post here:

http://wordpress.org/development/2009/10/wordpress-2-8-5-hardening-release/

This might be useful: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/exploit-scanner/

By: Karine

Karine — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:10:50 +0000

I have you in my blog feeds but sometimes I go straight to your blog and so I saw your blank page. For a second I thought it was the NoScript add-on to my Firefox browser that put you on it's black list. Glad to see all ended well. Now you can get back to commenting about how in the Québécor world, there seems to be no mention about the Labonté scandal originating from RueFrontenac.com. Oh and do you know what happened to John Moore's bit on Virgin? I feel with him gone there's nothing to balance out the lack of depth of the on air personalities. I'm still from the time they said they didn't know what gentrification meant...

By: Fagstein

Fagstein — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:24:38 +0000

This is why I completely reinstalled from scratch. Anything left in the original website has been removed and replaced, along with any potential backdoors. Even the theme was reinstalled and recustomized by hand. So unless this backdoor is in WordPress itself, or somehow hidden among the JPEGs in my uploads directories, I think it's gone.

By: Fagstein

Fagstein — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:15:47 +0000

Imagine if this blog was your livelyhood.

Then I'd be paying a lot more than $10 a month for hosting it, and I'd have a team of trained monkeys performing hourly backups.

By: Fagstein

Fagstein — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:14:18 +0000

Actually my WordPress was fully upgraded. I'm pretty good about that, especially now with the one-click installs.

By: Shawn

Shawn — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:01:37 +0000

Thank the good lord we haven't lost the "Howard Galganov is still an idiot" thread, else this would have been a dark day indeed for thoughtful dialogue in this country.

By: Tux

Tux — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:24:14 +0000

He was probably running some kind of exploit on your WordPress install, so changing the passwords didn't do anything. You're probably safe now that you've upgraded wordpress...

Glad you didn't suffer too much from the attack.

Also, that'll teach you not to read error messages ;)

By: soup

soup — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:10:43 +0000

heh. i actually looked at google's archive of your page to see what your most recent posts were.

By: David C.

David C. — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:43:33 +0000

What a great read,from someone who was in the computer business for almost 30 years.Imagine if this blog was your livelyhood.I enjoy reading it everyday,what a shame its not a column in the newspaper you work for.
Cheers

By: Jean Naimard

Jean Naimard — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:19:18 +0000

Islams sucks moose cocks and mohammed was a pedophile.

There, that oughta put them in their place…