zerolight

It’s amazing how quickly you get used to widescreen computing, especially at 1900×1200. Going back to a 17″ 4:3 just seems constrictive. I love it. Anyway, this post is just an excuse to show these pictures.

The new iMac arrived today. I’m working away from home so have yet to see it. Zee has been going through internet-withdrawal for the past couple of weeks (as we sold the PowerMac to fund the iMac). Over the past few days she’s gone from a couldn’t care less when it arrives attitude to yay, how do I set this thing up, right now!.

I talked her through connecting and starting it up for the first time and she couldn’t disguise her excitement when, as part of the setup process, the iSight web-cam sparked into life Oh my goodness! I can see my face on the screen!. She’s now up and running with web and email, showing that Apple’s claim’s that even a woman, sorry novice, can be up and running with a Mac in minutes.

So my site was hacked again last night. More Visa related material. Barstewards! This time I just wiped my site and re-installed Joomla over lunch, and put all my components back in. This should ensure that any hidden files the hackers left behind are now gone. Fairly painless as the database was backed up. It should be secure now. If it’s not I think I’ll need to move hosts as there’s nothing more I can do, short of dropping Joomla and reverting to just WordPress.

Would you believe my site’s been hacked again, this time with Visa phishing material. I’ve removed it all and will likely need to start pleading with Google to remove me from their SafeBrowsing blacklist again. This time though we’ve found the security hole. It seems that register_globals is set to ON on the host server and this is allowing hackers to inject malicious code into PHP scripts within Joomla. I’ve now set this to OFF for my domain, which will hopefully bring an end to the hacking of my site.