e-Vandals

The web host that hosts the Loton Park website appears to have been infected by a virus overnight - one of those that goes through every directory on the web server and replaces default.html with an offensive message.

I haven't seen one of those for years, since about 1999 when the company I used to work for first had a web page, which we hosted ourselves. I remember the frustration of trying to fix it because at first I assumed it was just a cracked password but as soon as the affected pages were replaced they were overwritten again. I then found out it was a virus that had effectively infected the whole network - we had to take the network down and run a virus scan on every computer: extra tricky since the servers had no local virus scanner installed!

I am surprised that in this more security conscious age that a professional hosting company would be so affected.

I am doubly annoyed because I had a lot of updates to try to do this weekend, including testing a cool news-by-blogger option that I have rigged up.

Hopefully it will be fixed soon.