Hello, folks. As many of you know, we’re having hacker trouble again. Someone is getting into my files, and adding malicious code. There’s a smart person working on it, and my hosting company is looking into it, as well. The code has been removed about five times, and it keeps returning. The last time it came back within fifteen minutes.
There’s not a hell hot enough for those hacking bastards…
I apologize if your computer was thrown into a state of crisis, as a result of visiting the Surf Report during the past 24 hours. Please know that we’re trying to figure out what’s going on. And why it keeps happening. Usually they get in through questionable WordPress plug-ins or themes, but I’ve got all that stripped down to the bone. And the plug-ins I use are common and installed on websites all over the world, so I don’t think that’s the issue this time.
If the last thing we tried doesn’t work (so far so good!), we’re going to have to do some drastic shit. And if that happens, the site will probably be down for an hour or two. But there’s no reason to be alarmed, I’m told. Of course I’ll be crapping myself, but that doesn’t mean you should also be concerned. The site will return, eventually. And hopefully it will look the same, and function correctly. Yowza.
I’ve got my fingers crossed, and maybe we won’t have to resort to the nuclear option? We’ll see how it goes. I apologize for all this nonsense. This kind of stuff makes me crazy, and it’s even worse when I know some of you were affected. So, I’m very sorry.
I’ll be back as soon as possible.
See ya then. -Jeff
Good Luck!
Call Nedry. See if he’s at the food machines.
Don’t worry. We’ll be here.
My AVG just blocked it.
Yeah, the bad code just returned. I guess we’re going to have to drop an atom bomb on this bastard. Good thing I’ll be at work, and mildly preoccupied. This is gonna be stressful…
Bummer, why does someone feel the need to be such a dickhead?
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These assholes are pissing me off. I need my daily fix, maaan.
Good Afternoon Surf Reporters…..
came here through Twitter and Norton blocked a ‘malicious file download’ attempt.
‘s any consolation, Jeff, I am imagining this hacker dry-humping a porcupine while flogging himself with a rubber hose on the crosstown bus.
Seriously, why the hacking? Get a woman and quit jacking off to nerdy shit.
At 2:51 it’s still there….I came directly here and my AVG caught it.
scum suckers……
I had to call in the big guns to fix my work computer this morning. Some virus that looked like a legit virus scanner was on my computer. I couldn’t do anything. As soon as I started my computer it would pop up and use up all of my “virtual memory”.
Fuck Russians!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You must have done something right. I’m not getting the anti virus popups any more.
Based on the announcement from CERN this morning, the EuroGeeks are closing in on the Higgs boson. Is there any way you can check your production server for a stray Higgs field or Higgs particle? That could be the problem. I understand the particle is green. Just sayin’.
jtb
Wasn’t the Higgs Boson hunted to extinction in the 19th century? Or was that the European Boson? I could be wrong.
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No, you’re clearly thinking of the infamous American Passenger Boson.
No problems whatsoever, here on my Commodore 64.
I was on a Mac when I got the warning and I almost clicked through just to be ballzy, but I was using chrome and decided I did not want to risk a browser infection. Those are the worst really.
that smoking fish looks a little like Satan.
4:41 CST and it seems to be OK.
That toilet has one serious flaw that I didn’t see pointed out in the article – power outages.
We’ve got the automatic flushers and sinks here at work, and when the power goes out they’re not covered by the generators. It ain’t pretty.
So I;m stupid here. What would be the purpose of someone doing this?
Some people do shitty things just because they’re cockbiters, not for any benefit to them. Pure douchebaggery. Then again, owned Windows boxes send most of the world’s spam – or so I hear.
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The virus must not have a passport – I haven’t had any problems here.
This is off the subject…but hilarious! Check it out….
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/45643760/
You owe me a coffee. And a screen shammy! (cleaning off screen). Thanks!
Gladly! I’ll send you a Starbucks gift card! I particularly like the first one with the monkey in the dress. Wow!
Oh…and I find the sleeve of my shirt works just as well as a shammy! You’re welcome.
We shuld be able to send some sort of lazer through the internet and blind malicious code writers.
Norton blocked the attack several times for me yesterday when trying to access the site from my email. It finally stopped late afternoon.
If these damn hackers would put as much energy into doing something productive with their pathetic little lives, they could probably do something amazing like cure cancer. Or solve world hunger. Or design CD wrapping that’s easier to remove. Just sayin’.
Well Jeff, I’m finally ready to do my Amazon Christmas shopping, come to thewvsr, and discover that of the two updates on the main page, NEITHER of them have an amazon link… Luckily, I’m willing to head all the way down to the bottom of the page and laboriously drag my mouse over to “Next page.” A lotta work you’re making us surf report faithful do.
I had to do the exact same thing this morning. Now I’m exhausted!
I got the internet herpes not only from this site, but another blog I frequent, this one on cooking of all things, talk about unrelated. However, if you need to stop the thing that looks like a virus scanner and is not, open the command line and type “taskkill.exe/F/IM/Privacy.exe” that should stop it. You might have to execute that line a few times but eventually it gives up. Then Malwarebytes does a nice job of cleaning it up.
This is all if it manages to sneak past your virus protection (use AVG)….
Hope that helps for any future website herpes.
~Aqua