This past Saturday I visited my Google Webmaster Tools account to do a few checks on my own websites, as well the handful of client websites that I manage. There was a message from Google, “Notice of Suspected Hacking on…” The Google message contained one or two suspicious URLs from the website. This set off [...]

Personally, I run Ubuntu Linux on my desktop and laptop computers, but my wife runs Windows XP (SP3) on her desktop. Thanks to XP, over the past 7 days, I had the distinct (dis)pleasure of having to deal with the FakeRean trojan and the TDL3 rootkit that it installs. This whole exercise was an incredibly [...]