A long, long time ago, right here on our own little ball joy that we call Earth there were some really smart guys who invented computers. Days went by and years passed and those computers went from room sized behemoths to little buggers you can hold in your hand and have room left over for a cheeseburger. Holes in paper cards were replaced with typed commands and now you can use your finger to do things. Who would have thunk it?
Rembrandt – The Flayed Ox – WGA19252 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
During all of this time, when programs were developed for these computers that did more than say yes or no or calculate what 7 X 4 is (28 for you kids who didn’t bother to memorize times tables), people wanted to get into other people’s stuff. Thus, the hacker was born. Basically a modern day pirate that probably deserves to be castrated and flayed alive. For you young’uns out there, being flayed alive is where they basically take the skin from your body while you are wearing it. I can only hope that the saltwater bath afterwards keeps the germs out.
This week I found out that all of my websites have been infected with malware. Some sack of *ok, this part you will have to imagine, this blog is only PG-13 rated* infected my sites with some stupid program that tries to make a backdoor into them. Because they can get so much from my blogs and info sites. One of the myriad of things that bothers me is that some of these have been going on for a few years, and I had no idea. I went into the other details over on CatharsisOfBogue.com if you care. The short of it, I spent the weekend getting rid of some little piece of *again imagine*’s code that was trying to hijack me.
I can only hope that it was a *you know by now* that was at least over 18 doing it. I am not sure if my brain can handle a 14 year old doing this. So now, I finally have my sites back, and they work, and I have got the security plugins working correctly. I am almost sure that it is illegal to hunt these hackers down and make them look like the picture over there, but if I have a chance…things happen, I’m just saying.
Anyone have experience with crap like this? Let’s rant together down in the comments.
