My web site got zapped by a virus. My father in law found it – or should I say that it found him. Fortunately, his anti-virus caught it before it infected his computer. Appearantly, one of my PHP programs had a vulnerability and this virus was running wild all over the web host servers. My Norton did not catch it when I viewed the site but maybe the virus did not “attack” me. I’m not entirely sure because my Norton subscription just elapsed a week ago. Yet, this virus is several years old so my scan should have caught it if it were present. We shall see. I stopped by Office Max and picked up a copy of McAffee antivirus.

I called my web host and they found the virus on the server, deleted it, backed up my files, and created a new root directory. This caused all sorts of problems as the inforation was older and I still needed to upgrade to the most secure versions of my gallery and blogs. Needless to say but I learned a lot in the process. I have to learn how to do my own backups next. My web host has lots of automated tools but I have yet to learn them.