Oh thank God. Seriously this place is like crack, I haven't known what to do the last couple of days.
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Forms and 'paperwork' have been submitted, I think we are back up for a while. Good news is I won't need to do the downtime Sunday night
“Gentlemen, we will chase perfection, and we will chase it relentlessly, knowing all the while we can never attain it. But along the way, we shall catch excellence.” ― Vince Lombardi Jr.
Oh thank God. Seriously this place is like crack, I haven't known what to do the last couple of days.
So where did the offending stuff end up being? Was I pretty close?
Stacey Roach
Class of 2001
Ok, I have cleared all browsing history since the beginning of time, but Chrome still thinks there is a virus here. IE does not. Any suggestions?
Screwing up networks throughout the nation.
Is the new "What's New" button here to stay? Kind of a fan of the old one, although I sure won't complain.
Correct. I submitted a review request at 1:37 am this morning, once I had ensured from my end everything had been cleaned up. Very exhaustive approach, and I took an extra step of completely downloading everything off the server, scanning it myself, and uploading it back (which is what took an extra day). I won't go into too much detail, but I couldn't exactly trust my host.
A big thanks to NWGaEagle ... his pointers when I called him yesterday confirmed some of my suspicions about where the offending snippet of code had been injected.
Hopefully Google will get it cleared off their list soon.
“Gentlemen, we will chase perfection, and we will chase it relentlessly, knowing all the while we can never attain it. But along the way, we shall catch excellence.” ― Vince Lombardi Jr.
Yep. I found the last trace in a footer file. Since it is one of the files that has altered code, the way vbulletin handles file upgrades did not correct and remove the code. So, out of over 53,000 files on the server, it was a single line in a single file being called by most of the template pages.
“Gentlemen, we will chase perfection, and we will chase it relentlessly, knowing all the while we can never attain it. But along the way, we shall catch excellence.” ― Vince Lombardi Jr.
I have no idea of the new 'features' on this code level.
I haven't had much time this week to dive into seeing what the differences are, though I momentarily freaked when I couldn't find what I considered to be the 'front' page.
Been dealing off-line with a couple of major issues outside of the website and its operation ... so in true Murphy's Law fashion ... the site got hacked at just the entire wrong time. Hoping to put in some major hours next week in getting it ready for football season ... I had initially planned on doing it this weekend (upgrade installation), but the hacking forced me to do it sooner so I could get the server cleaned up.
“Gentlemen, we will chase perfection, and we will chase it relentlessly, knowing all the while we can never attain it. But along the way, we shall catch excellence.” ― Vince Lombardi Jr.
Oh, on an unrelated note ... once I was aware of the depth of the initial problem, Google's webtools had narrowed down for me a list of certain threads that had contained additional suspected malware in random advertisements.
While the ironic part is that they were ads served through Google, I took the approach of simply deleting those thread from the database, rather than trying to cull ad code.
All in all, about 25 threads were purged. Some were very old, but a few were somewhat recent. If your thread was deleted, sorry
“Gentlemen, we will chase perfection, and we will chase it relentlessly, knowing all the while we can never attain it. But along the way, we shall catch excellence.” ― Vince Lombardi Jr.
“Gentlemen, we will chase perfection, and we will chase it relentlessly, knowing all the while we can never attain it. But along the way, we shall catch excellence.” ― Vince Lombardi Jr.
I post very rarely but this has made me realize how much I depend on your site for information on Georgia Southern athletics. I can offically say that I am addicted; however, some addictions are not so bad .
Was there any specific malicious bug identified that users may have picked up? Something's causing problems on my home computer the last few days that Norton, Malwarebytes and the other stuff I use hasn't stopped; Google searches are redirecting to some crappy search service and WIndows Updating isn't working. I was going to spend some time this weekend trying to flush it out.
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