"Extremism is so easy. You've got your position, and that's it. It doesn't take much thought. And when you go far enough to the right, you meet the same idiots coming around from the left."
- Clint Eastwood
Fending off spammers
Sunday, January 21, 2007 | Permalink

If you visited this site this morning or yesterday night and found that you was redirected to another site, please do a virus scan on your system.

Apparently a spammer was able to squeeze in a javascript into his name tag in the comments. Unfortunately, I didn't have the security check for the name field as I have for the comment field. Thus the script was included in the regular html code, causing all visitors to the main page to get redirected to the spammer's site. As I got redirected this morning my antivirus program immediately alerted me as I arrived at the spammer's place and it tried to plant a virus on my machine. For those of you that don't have a antivirus program or don't have it configured to continuously guard your files, you probably got infected if you went there.

I have now fixed the security hole and as a further step to fend of spammers you'll now have to enter a code when you comment. This should be very quick and not be a problem for regular posters and hopefully block most spam bots.

[ 8 comments | Last comment by SqR00T (2007-02-05 12:10:49) ]