LEET HAXORS!

Howdy. Long time since I rapped at ya. </anchower>

I picked up the new Longwave CD tonight. It’s decent so far and a bit different from their first CD, the “The Strangest Things” (Longwave). My initial impression is favourable. It’s decent guitar pop.

“There’s A Fire” (Longwave)

This morning dria informed me the n3wb forum was infected with something unusual. A file cleverly named newexpl.php wanted to be saved every time she opened the front page. This is not normal. Then, while I was checking this out for myself (the file was originating from off-site at 195.95.218.173, registered to RIPE Network Coordination Centre (RIPE is right)), dria pointed me to a description of the exploit on the wordpress support pages. A quick search found similar mentions on the phpBB forums with the advice to upgrade the installation.

(the file contained in newexpl.php, incidentally was a mime-encoded trojan, undoubtedly of the spyware variety which would happily install itself from a Windows user’s copy of Internet Explorer).

This, as it happens, turned out to be an unpleasant experience. The older versions of the board were not immediately available so I decided to download the full install and go from there. After backing up, I wrote over the current installation with the new files…

boolean takes a brief break to smoke

Unfortunately, the upgrade portion of the installation didn’t work with the 2.0.11 version I had installed and crapped-out while trying to upgrade the database. What followed was a gross session with mysql manually updating the tables with the new schemas painfully extracted from the php script that was supposed to do the work for me. I think I got it, but there was a point where I was sorely tempted to just ditch the whole thing. It’s not like anyone uses the forum much anyway.

So, I will finish with my usual response to the script monkeys who insist on doing these things to my web software: FUCK YOU AND YOUR TROJANS! YOU SUCK! TRY DOING SOMETHING CONSTRUCTIVE WITH YOUR NON-EXISTENT “TALENT”.

Thank you. I feel much better now.

boolean is listening to: Underneath You Know The Names from the album “There’s A Fire” by Longwave