I have a weird brain… plain and simple.

Well another site got exploited this morning / last night (depending on how you sleep) - they came in through the message board it seems, and instead of hurting anything (at least that I have seen) - they planted a mass mail app and were blasting out spam, not cool, but it happens - so I am prepping a new email newsletter, and going to focus tonight on the FH end of things for a good chunk of the evening to let folks know to update, or remove, as some simply think scripts are safe if they don’t use them.

In this case, the customer had a older message board, which has TONS of posts, and a conversion was never a quick thing, so I understood the delays, but I am going to lend a hand and copy things here to the home server and work on it here, I can keep it well hidden from the outside world, do the conversion to SMF (a popular choice lately) and then upload the upgraded version, with hopefully only a little tweaking needed by him - but probably a bit of work to do - I miss the days when the web was simple, no worries of comment/post spam, no people hacking your board to help “educate” you in the upkeep of your site - life happens, you can’t always spend 36 hours a day on the PC, heck I don’t even do that - sometimes I do wish I could hire a batch of these kids, pay them a set rate, have them proof sites, and that way I could provide customers with a vulnerability report monthly - I think that’d help curb the tide.

Anywhoo - I am going to go work on this more, have a order to fill, and some things to journal in my private journal - I am waiting for Friday so much, my bike will be back from the shop, and I can go ride at ming again on Saturday morning, and Friday I am going to pickup Rosie’s tube for her front tire as well, so lots of fun ahead, but my parents do leave tomorrow for San Diego for my dad’s birthday (tomorrow 55 years young!) - I do get the house free for a day at least, maybe more if they’re visiting my aunt, so we shall see - but fun fun fun ahead in the days to come.