…not to be a worry wart…the problems are mine. I have been dealing with hackers a LOT the past couple of months. Most of the problems have been due to a server level hack on my hosting company’s servers, affecting not just my site, but THOUSANDS of web sites on the companies dozens of servers.

I’ve seen spam appended to hundreds of files, using css code to hide the spam links (the worst hack adding 2508 spam links to nearly every index, login, home, default, auth, and admin file in hundreds of my directories), and I had to edit them by hand.

I’ve just found tonight, in a script I’ve been using for over a year, an URL shortener found here…

http://developers.jccorp.net/

that a subfolder of this short URL script had been hacked (I had NO CHMOD 777 folders ANYWHERE on my site), and that the same spam I had been removing from my pages, that were pointing to OTHER hacked sites on mostly .edu college and university websites, was now SOURCING and FORWARDING from my site.

I can not tell you how bloody angry I became at finding this.

The appended spam code was and is looking like this…

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It took a good 20 minutes for my FTP program to delete thousands of spam files from that subfolder above at /url/1/2/.

The latest hack that affected me BEFORE this hack was one that hit, again, the index/admin/default/etc php and him files, and REPLACED all of my code with the following code.

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Not a good day…weekend…or even near future…

…We have REAL net access again…(doing the Ren & Stimpy HappyHappyJoyJoy dance around the room now).

We’ve been dealing with droopy DSL service the past few weeks, as the local college destruction…er, construction guys have been digging holes in the yard, drilling holes in water pipes, breaking drain pipes, and generally wreaking big-ass havoc on our little corner of campus…all to install (albeit 20 years too late) “fire suppression sprinkler systems” in our little corner of the Central Wyoming College campus, in the west apartment building complex.

Before they started destroying anything, our DSL was working fine. We paid for 768k up/down service, and were seeing average speeds of 400/500k down, and much less up. No problem…we were “right on the edge’ of service with the ISP provider.

Then, hell….

All the commotion with tractors, backhoes, hammers, chisels, etc. did SOMETHING to our phone lines (a very important part of the DSL connection), and It Started To Suck Bigtime.

We spent days on the phone with Wyoming.com, talked to 5 different techs, and switched DSL modems, cables, and routers…all to no avail.

Finally, we figured out that we COULD get Wireless Broadband here, without bolting any antennae to the outside of the building (our bedroom window faces the hilltop containing the transmitter tower). How did we find out that wireless would work here? Next door neighbor, Ben, is a techie at the ISP, and got it working in his dorm. In calling and troubleshooting the DSL problems, he suggested the wireless option. I am very glad he did.

Got the hardware this afternoon….plugged it all together in about 20 minutes….tweaked the IP addie in the software controls, and BOOM! We are ZOOMING back on the net…almost 1meg in d/l speed, and 500k upload speeds..MUCH better than DSL was.

I am a happy camper again…

Thank you Wireless Gods…and Wyo.com for your assistance…

NOW….if you bill be for those dialup hours I had to use to do my work, I’ll be VERY upset…

Rich