After nearly 6 years of trouble free interneting, bucketFountain was compromised by evil-doers. The exploit involved changing a theme file so that it called a javascript file that inserted all sorts of hidden spam links into the footer. While I confess many of the links looked highly interesting, they had to go. The worst thing is that bucketFountain has been blacklisted by the almighty Google.

Needless to say I immediately upgraded (which was long overdue) and replacing the offending file in the theme.

A number of good things have come out of this:

• Wordpress 2.5 is spiffing
• This chap has a rather useful category on Wordpress security
• The Wordpress Automatic Upgrade (WPAU) is excellent

If you run Wordpress, check your blogs source now and go straight to the bottom, it will be obvious if there’s a problem.

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