Garazon’s Den

No its not a video from Britney Spears, just a mistake I made in not keeping up with all the security fixes for these web apps I use on the site. I guess a year or so ago I set up a couple of forum boards to use with this and our other sites, but never really got them integrated the way I would like with the blog. Anyway someone found a way to use it to access the root folder of my server and it appended every top level index file adding a list of about a hundred different porn and spamming sites to the pages. well they weren’t visible in the outcome of the page rendered but still there to be searched and indexed and it was jsut pure luck i  came across it as soon as I did, no telling what else they would have done. well i say they as it was likely a bot of some kind doing it all but it had to started by someone, and a search of the site the links went to revealed it wasn’t just an isolated hack of my site, but a widespread thing. well anyway I cleaned up all the mess hopefully, and in the process just got rid of everything but this blog app and my photo albums. I dont need the forums anyway as I hardly have time to maintain this blog, let alone keep track of things I actually forgot about having in the first place. so from here I will keep it simple and let this blog be the whole works. anyone wanting to speak outside the blog has my address anyway or could find it fairly easily.

Finally having a day off again and just catching up on mails and trying to get up with my daughter in Florida. shes in Jacksonville and that tropical storm, Fay is supposed to be coming near where she lives. Its setting rain records all around that area and of course I want to make sure shes ok and staying safe and dry! well at least safe, hard to stay dry when you get 20+inches of rian isnt it! YIKES!