It has come to my attention that this blog and my other one (otherendoftheinter.net) have been infected with malware that downloads malicious software onto the reader’s computer.
Trust me when I say this is not intentional and I do not as yet have a clear idea how this happened. I have spent 18 of the last 24 hours trying to fix the problem, taking breaks only to eat meals and handle certain bodily functions that can only be put off for so long. I have gone so far as to delete all the wordpress files and install a fresh copy then re-install various plugins and themes, lastly adding back pictures and media that I had uploaded.
No matter what order I do this in and how long I wait between each step, the problem continues to return. I am going to make one more attempt after I get some sleep and if I can’t get it fixed then the problem may be in my wordpress database. If it comes down to deleting the database and starting everything from scratch, then I haven’t decided what I’ll do.
As stated in the “What We Do” page, I do occasionally do paid posts, however, once a site has been labeled as a distributor of malware I doubt that many people are going to want to advertise there. Given that those advertisements are how I pay for hosting my blogs, it is entirely possible that if I cannot fix the problem then it’s very likely I just won’t maintain a blog at all any more.
I would like to express a heartfelt and sarcastic “Thanks a whole hell of a lot” to the destructive idiots who release maleware like this into the public to cause problems for people such as myself who have never done them any harm at all.
Toward the end of Season One of Star Trek The Next Generation, in an episode titled “Arsenal Of Freedom”, the crew encounters a planet that has no life, the result of a long-ago war. On the planet they encounter an automated sales hologram who insists on demonstrating the weapons that it was selling – to both sides in the war. The weapon in question bears a striking resemblance to the