Here are the emails I received, for those who don't know what's going on:
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I was just informed that the whole server was taken down because someone exploited our site and was using it for a phishing scam. I have no idea if or even when the site will be back up. I am going crazy because I don't know what to do now. I need to figure out what my options are for the site or if it needs to be removed completely. Martin our host got a message from the main server hosting company about the phishing scam and told Martin that the site needs to be removed in order to resume service.
I am trying to work with Martin in order to get the site content and database content so we have an updated backup and hopefully we can continue blogging soon .. but not sure exactly when.
I still have efx2blogs.com domain if efx2.com is no longer usable if we need to start over as a worse case scenario ... we would still have the same content but the actual blogs themselves would have to be very restricted to prevent further exploits.
Man this is the worst thing that could happen right now and totally caught me by surprise. Please pass this information around and I will keep you updated so you can keep the others updated.
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OK I have had a few e-mails asking about some information. At this time all I know is that the phishing came from our domain efx2.com. It happened within one of our cache directories. I don't believe its someone from the community because most of the time when it comes to phishing its usually done by bots looking for exploits.
I have been going over my options and after the restyle and now going back to work I would hate to have to recode the site once again especially with less time then I had before.
So I am looking into some other blog hosting scripts that we could possibly use and most cost money so as of right now those are out of the question.
I would like to give Wordpress MU as go and see how it works but currently don't have access to a server to check it out. Wordpress MU is completely free and open source and if you need some more info be sure to check out the FAQ on this site ... http://mu.wordpress.org/
As I said I don't have a lot of time like before and Wordpress is a very nice blogging script and it would be nice to have something up and running quickly once we have access again. Of course I will work with everyone to get your posts back if we end up going with a completely new setup using Wordpress MU.
It has all the features of Wordpress and developed by the Wordpress guys so it will come feature packed and from what I read all the good plugins work with it so that would be fun for everyone. I can also customize it once we are up for future stuff such as alerts and other things.
I will e-mail back once I have more .. still waiting to hear back from Martin about the final decision on what to do with the domain.
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I'll keep you updated if I hear anything new.
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*dabs a tears from my eye* :(
hai hai.
am here (wozzablog.blogspot.com)
facebook (wozza@wozza.info finds me)
(myspace.com/wozzablog)
thanks for hooking me up with a link :)
i'm probbaly going to transfer my http:\\wozza.info domain to point at my blogspot for now atleast.
am not up to adding links tonight, will do a brief post. gach
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Loosing my blog at EFX sucks. I will miss a lot of the people if we don't find them all.
If you have Keith's non-EFx2 email address can you shoot him a quick note and remind him that he has "author" status at the EFx2 Info blog (http://www.scottitude.net/efx2info) and can post there as he sees fit? If he has questions or needs his login info he can contact me directly.
Thanks.
Hi Scottitude :) I've passed him on an email. Thanks for visiting!
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