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I wanted to give everyone an update on the sites that are hosted at
theusgenweb.org or MTGenWeb, WIGenWeb, SDGenWeb - Hopefully I've not missed
any.
Due to the latest infection, ftp access was removed from all websites hosted
on the above domains late evening on the 21st of October. We chose to take
this course so that we could determine where the infected files were coming
from. With only a couple of us changing files, it has made it easy to see
what other IP addresses have been gaining access to the server account.
By shutting down ftp access, it appears that we contained the infection,
thank goodness. We want to be sure of that, though, so until we can make
our way through everything one more time, no passwords will be issued. I
realize that many of you are chomping at the bit to get back to working on
your sites. We will get you back to them as soon as we can.
In the meantime, you should know that we're removing scripts and php from
sites that don't use them. If you use php or any script that is loaded on
the server, you'll need to let me know and it will be reinstalled for your
site. This step is being taken because most of the infections are using
either cgi scripts or php - and we want to curtail any opportunity for
infection of our/your sites. Any sites that are not being used are also
being deleted. Again, this is so that we don't give the hackers easy places
to hide his/her files. If we delete a site and you decide you want to host
your site on
theusgenweb.org, let me know and we'll rebuild it. We don't
want to prevent anyone from hosting their site on this account, we just want
to tighten things up.
Thanks for your patience as we continute to work through these issues.
Again, I'd love to turn everyone loose to work on your sites, but need to be
sure that we've got clean sites for our visitors and researchers, much less
ourselves.
Sherri Bradley
National Coordinator
USGenWeb Project
Information about the USGenWeb Project at
http://usgenweb.org
Advisory Board Agenda
http://usgenweb.org/agenda2.php
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