UPDATE: The upgrade is complete and all passwords related to the Web site have been changed and hardened, which looks like not only a functional success, but outside tools are confirming that the “infection” has been eliminated. Following The American Jerk’s RSS links in your favorite aggregator should be safe once again. If only herpes was so easy to kill.
Thanks again to Timmy Mac for looking out for me… unlike that time he poured cheap bourbon down my throat and convinced me that the chick in the “All Sex Is Rape” t-shirt was totally checking me out.
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Many thanks to my buddy Timmy Mac who advised me that it looked like The American Jerk has been hacked to redirect RSS Subscription links to wretched spammer sites, despite my protestations that he was the drunken idiot who probably clicked on Bonsai Buddy or some such nonsense.
I’ve cleaned up the internal, womanly plumbing as best I can, but I’ll be spending the next several hours cursing and wailing my way through a WordPress upgrade to try to alleviate future problems.
If the site goes down, or if you flat-out don’t want to risk being redirected if the problem returns, you can follow The American Jerk’s Twitter Feed for both updates on the upgrade, and as a half-assed subscription source to find out when new posts are up.
Please bear with me as I turn a perfectly good humor magazine into the computer equivilant of a Superfund Site.
And when I start telling people out things I’ve got that are “changing” and “hardening” I get pepper sprayed. Lucky bastard.
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