I received an email from the DreamHost abuse team — DreamHost is the company that provides the web services for this website, pfblogs.org to an extent, the MoneyBlogNetwork and its forums, and a number of others. They made me aware that my web space was being accessed by a computer user in Romania. The user was logging on with my identification and running programs that created a lot of network traffic, clogging up the pipeline and probably slowing down a number of websites.
The DreamHost representative asked if I knew anyone in Romania. I do not. I am also not sure how the perpetrator got my password; it’s difficult to guess and I constantly run a virus scanner on my home computer. DreamHost cleaned up the trojan programs and I changed my password. I hope this won’t be an issue again; I’ve had enough problems with DreamHost in the past and they’re just starting to make me happy with them, as I was six years ago.
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Argh! Don’t these people have anything better to do? I hope this is taken care of.
Bastards… Dirty bastards… That is some freaky stuff, at least you were notified. Bes of luck getting it resolved.
Everything looks to be clean now.
Ouch. I had something weird happen to be recently as well. Someone hacked my files and added pointer to their site on each of my pages. I found out when I went to my site and got a message saying another site was trying to set a cookie.
Might I suggest Password Safe for storing/creating passwords. It allows you to create totally random passwords. I use it all of the time now that I have started to create unique passwords for every (important) site that I use. The website is: http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net
Yikes. I just got Dreamhost. I hope this never comes up.