Malware Crisis Averted
Friday, August 20th, 2010Pleased to post that with the help of people far more capable than myself, Steady Burn was able to thwart a malicious attack by some Malware scoundrel.
Wanted to take this opportunity to post that the whole site is back up to snuff, and also thank a few folks for helping out of this bind:
Thanks Isaac from Guyism, Ethan from NESW Sports and the whole crew of sports bloggers who worked their contacts to get me some help.
Thanks to Brooklyn Vegan for the tips on Google Webmaster Tools, which should help me keep the Page Rank intact.
Thanks to Bryan, Steady Burn’s designer and my go-to web guru, for making some very necessary updates to my WordPress template that made it more secure.
Lastly, special commendation to Michael VanDeMar who fixed what had become a site-wide infection in one half hour flat. I’d definitely recommend him to any blogger facing a similar issue.
In the interest of taking the bad with the good, wanted to add that Steady Burn’s Tumblr now has 18 followers as a result of most of the intermittent posting taking place over there for the last few weeks.
If anyone has a blog that needs a similar treatment, feel free to email me. The word going around is that there’s Malware attacks going on that target WordPress blogs hosted on GoDaddy – which is like 150% of the blogs on the internet.
I should be back to regular posts almost immediately. MH





























