Comments on: Jack and Jill website hacked

By: Darragh

Darragh — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 12:45:39 +0000

Quieter alright Richard, and there’s probably more chance of a dacent cup of tea here. Am I right?

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 11:18:26 +0000

Holy God, Robert! A nice list. I might rob that and lam it into the servers. Either that or I’ll set Himself onto them.

Prin: The byword is caution. I always double check comments and emails before accepting them. Even an innocent link can cause mayhem. I have nearly been caught once or twice, and even then have had my PC infected. Only yesterday I found a trojan that had been lurink and uit was a bugger to remove.

Welcome Darragh! I think you’ll find it is a little quieter in here?

By: Darragh

Darragh — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 11:01:15 +0000

Glad you got it sorted! My first time here for a nosy around – I think I’ll like this place!

By: prin

prin — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 23:18:05 +0000

they got me too. they did it through a comment on my site. i was just so happy to have a comment that i published it before really reading it. they came with three or four different emails from different names like nancy, valerie or some such innocuous name. the thing with the emails though was that they were so innocent sounding, but i finally figured out that it was the link that looked like a signature that was the culprit. oh, i’ve had hell…mainly because i don’t have your expertise. i think i finally found something to control it with. i don’t know enough to go in and start removing stuff so i’m not messing with that. but it’s a realy shame that hackers have no soul and have to try to put down a site as great as jack and jills.

By: robert

robert — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 20:13:43 +0000

I have quite a comprehensive method of dealing with unwanted visitors and general nastiness. Although I use a reverse proxy, anyone interested should stillbe abale to adapt my regular expressions into a .htaccess file.

I also tend to block vast swathes of the internet address space, and blocking China is a really good place to start, the Ukraine, Russia and Moldova are also prime candidates but the problem is that the vast majority come from hosted servers in the U.S. and especially KeyWeb in Germany.

Anyway you can have a look at what I am blocking over here:

http://tech.sweetnam.eu/2008/12/who-and-what-i-allow-access-my-websites/