Apologies, but it isn’t currently possible to contact me through the blog. If you need to get in touch please use the email noel dot jenkins at gmail.com
The problems are connected with the almost daily hacking of the blog. I’m trying to get on top of it!
Update:
I’ve spent hours going through my database, deleting all the files from my server and replacing all the core theme and plugin files to remove the persistent spam injection problem. The first sign of an attack is usually that Feedburner drops all the statistics for all the readers that use Google to subscribe. Only by viewing the source code can you see that the hack involves injecting loads of spam links into the header. With no illegal users, curious images, dodgy lines in my plugins or core files and nothing amiss with the database that I can see I’m still confused. I’ve now removed all the plugins apart from Akismet, and with a fresh install of WordPress, change of passwords and some other hardening methods I hope that the problem has been fixed.
Another update…
Normal service has been now been resumed.
Noel, I noticed you have a wordpress blog and I just came across an interesting blog post that talked about hacking wp. Don’t know if this will help: http://dow.ngra.de/2008/11/04/script-kiddies-have-awesome-tools/
This was very helpful Jim. I have discovered two large PHP files of obsfucated code that I can’t decompile, but I’m guessing were probably part of the problem.
Thanks a lot!