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Today I was treated to the surprise of finding out that Firefox, Google Chrome, and Internet Explorer were all making superb efforts to block my site from being loaded. Chrome, however was the only one kind enough to actually tell me why.
The website at sttimmypro.com contains elements from the site chanchoi.cn, which appears to host malware — software that can hurt your computer or otherwise operate without your consent. Just visiting a site that contains malware can infect your computer.
Weird, huh?
I viewed the source of the page and didn’t see anything weird with it with a very small glance. I kinda wish I had looked closer, because then maybe I’d be able to confirm my suspicions.
However, what I believe happened, based upon the appearance of things, was that this site was hacked in some way or another, and the iframe this blog goes into on the index was set to go to that other website instead — the chanchoi.cn, or whatever. So when the browser went to load the iframe it was like, “whoa, man, no, that site’s blocked!” so it blocked the rest of my site too.
Simple.
So I just reuploaded the index file and the site works again. Yay.
Then, I went to change my password on the host site, in case I was right, so this wouldn’t happen again. Now, because I signed up for this host back in.. whenever it was.. it’s on one of the older servers that uses the old cPanel, rather than their own, custom one. logu15.com, potormovie.com, worldofwally.com, etc. all use the new control panel, so I can say on pretty good authority: theirs is better.
Anyway, because I’m on this old cPanel, I’m not able to change my password. Terrible, isn’t it? It is. It really is (so if this site is down again tomorrow, blame them).
Oh, and then I found out I’d gotten some malware on my computer, and I had to go through the numerous pains and tribulations of removing that.
But, really, how many people can say they got malware from their own website? Huh? Yeah. I can.
Also, my back hurts like freaking heck. I think I dislocated my spine or something. Jeez.
I think I’m gonna start signing things differently. I mean, change never hurt anyone, right?
Except, you know, Native Americans. And Polar Bears. And Heroes.
Best,
Timmy