Comments on: On that Error Message You Keep Seeing…

By: Magpie_Seven

Magpie_Seven — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 09:38:02 +0000

ah, so THAT’S where that came from.

By: BeckySharper

BeckySharper — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 02:44:22 +0000

I have floated the idea to the other Harpies about hiring a techie person to help us with various problems like this on a semi-regular basis. We would pay a reasonable fee. Just putting this out there to the community—if any of y’all are interested or knows someone who might be qualified and be suitably Harpy-friendly, PM me at beckysharper @ harpyness.com

By: Ms. M

Ms. M — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 02:27:12 +0000

So spouse told me to pass this along:
“The trojan potentially installs a root kit, which could include keyloggers that will send all your keystrokes and mouse clicks. Root kits are very hard to get rid of.”

Which is why he had to wipe the harddrive.

By: Ms. M

Ms. M — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 02:17:21 +0000

This happened to me. My computer was down 3 days, while my Microsoft employed software engineer spouse had to eventually wipe the hard drive. We had a back up, but only from Feb. Nothing big.

BUT! I lost my old Michael Jackson zombies from my old version of Plants vs. Zombies. WAH!

By: BeckySharper

BeckySharper — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 20:47:15 +0000

@Endora: I don’t think so. I might be wrong but whatever this thing is, it seems to fuck with PCs more than Macs. Not sure if that’s because Macs have better safeguards or it was written specifically to attack some weakness in Microsoft software.

By: Endora

Endora — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 20:37:52 +0000

Have Mac users been affected?

By: Jessica

Jessica — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 17:44:23 +0000

I just helped a friend clean up what, I think, is the same exploit infecting this site. The malicious code was buried in two files in a WordPress theme (“Classic”) she wasn’t using. We had to delete that code, delete the iframe from header.php, re-install WP and all plugins, and then change all passwords and remove all inactive themes and plugins.