Woah
aaaaand, I’m back!
So, I got a virus.
It came from a website.
It was a crummy website.
and i got totally pwned by it.
The reason for visiting the site is not as scintillating as you are probably imagining.
sorry!
Needless to say, i did not download anything nor click on anything…i simply went to the site.
aaand, according to the folks at Symantec, this site had a type of virus known as a heuristic worm. it was NASTY. I won’t bore you with the details, but needless to say, it was very bad.
bad worm!
It even, somehow, hijacked renchin.com. Fearing that it would replicate itself onto my site and infect my dear readers, i called my hosting company who took a look at my domain and the files and the activity and the logs and the whatnots and they verified that, indeed, my site was infected and was doing crazy things.
SO. I completely nuked my blog and am now in the process of rebuilding it.
better.
stronger.
safer.
don’t get squeemish. you aren’t getting infected by visiting this site. That’s the whole point.
Needless to say, be careful out there!