Originally Posted by
jason8612
Interesting.
They probably didnt update the server in a long time. I run my own server, and with cpanel, it auto updates and patches everything. Makes life easy
I remember running ensim and it didn't do that.
But you know that your site is popular
Go with a big name hosting company is all I can really say. Also the CHMOD (the read/write options) might be set on the main page for anybody to change it. I would recommend changing those (basically in a ftp client right click on the index file)
I checked -- only the owner, i.e. me, has read/write, everyone else is read.
My site isn't that popular. I suspect everyone hosted on the server got attacked this way.
One thing I'm considering: My webpages were hacked to include links to both porno sites and some legit services. I've tracked a couple of the legit services down. These are direct links, not the usual pay-per-click through Google, so at some point they must have employed some service to spread their name around. I'm seriously thinking of writing them a letter advising them that, as principals for whatever agent did this, they're liable for violation of 15 U.S.C. Sec. 1125(a) (Section 43(a) of the Lanham Act) and demanding an accounting and damages or I'll sue (I do these kinds of law suits all the time).
It might be interesting.