The Diary of A Simple Man

I installed the new Google Chrome browser a couple of days ago (the day it was released). As always, one of the first sites I checked was my own RuneQuest site; I wanted to see how it looked. And what do you think was the result?

Well, I kind of gave it away with the subject. Google blocked my site, and said it was infected with malware! I checked it out, and sure enough my index.html was infected with a script exploit. I cleaned it and replaced it. Then I found that index.php was infected too. I couldn't clean it, so I just deleted it. It doesn't seem to have affected the functioning of the site.

Unfortunately my site seems to have been added to a list of bad sites in the meantime. So not only is it blocked by Google Chrome (you have to check a box affirming that you know the site is infected if you want to see it in Chrome) but it's now blocked by my work, too!

I've requested a review by Google. I'm hoping I got all of the infection. I downloaded a fresh copy of everything on the site tonight (after making the fix and deleting the bad file) and ran a scan with AntiVir; everything came up clean.

And that's it. Good night!

There has been lots going on with my website lately. Some of it I can't talk about, yet.

But what I can say is that as of last night, my domains were out of Fuitadnet's hands and transferred to a reputable third-party registrar. And my site is also, now, off of Fuitadnet.

I'm free!

Things are already set up and running fine. The site itself hasn't changed, of course; I'm hoping to make some improvements, but that will come later. Actually, though, there is one change I need to make soon: the guestbook. Alxnet, the free service that hosts my old guestbook, is completely unreachable almost all of the time. Has anyone tried phpBook? Does it have good spam protection? That's my major concern.

Okay, time for me to sleep. I have a splitting headache.