CYBEREVOLUTION

Thanks to some security flaws under one of my subdomains, some clever ar$ehole managed to install some kind of “phishing” paypal type site, effectively superceding my site.  Ultimatley in causing my host to suspend my account….  one lengthy international phonecall later, I have managed to delete the offending files, and now know what to look out for in the future, plus my host have kindly reactivated my account…

but this sort of thing really takes the biscuit!  When the more domestic website enthusiast like myself is maliciously targetted in this fashion.  GRRRR!

I am for the time being blaming an out dated installation of PHP-Nuke, which I never got round to deleting, and upon checking the MySQL Database associated with it, found the size to be disproportionate to my use of the site, at over 180 Meg!!  Suffice to say, it no longer exists…

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