I’m not not whether using different browsers for different puposes would’ve helped, as I’m not familiar with exactly how the bug worked. Like you, I’m also skeptical this issue has been resolved for good.

Poonam,

There have been some positives to this story, for sure, even though it brought some stress to the last week of my holiday.

Levi,

According to many people who have commented, this is a security issue that has since been fixed by Google. That said, it wouldn’t stop me from checking my filters from time to time. Just to be sure.

H.M.

No need to apologise at all. Every country in the world has its ‘bad apples’, even though the majority of people are good-willed. Thanks for the message of luck.

Hi,
I just read both of your posts. As an Iranian, I should first ask everybody here to accept my apologies for what happened. I already saw similar miserable wretched young guys. They shamelessly do such works for the fun of of it or to be famous, and sometimes for the money.

The bad part is that they don’t understand how they ruin name of a country, for nothing, by doing such stupid, illegal jobs. I think they don’t understand what they are actually doing. They don’t understand this is a real business that they are disturbing.

This report gave me such disappointment that pushed me to add this thread to show my sadness and anger and to ask everybody here to forgive this rude treatment.

I’m happy that your website is back. Good luck with your great job.

I scanned over many of the comments left in both threads, but am unable to find one answer. How do I, a gmail user, prevent this backdoor attack? I saw your comment about checking your filters, but nothing about how to prevent bad filters from getting created.

My assumption is that there is no answer, and that we are waiting for Google to implement a fix. Is this correct?

And I guess this hacking thing has now worked in your favour, I had never heard about you. Yet, I am here. :)

Poonam’s last blog post..My Personal Resolutions For 2008

I’ve just succumbed to a similar sort of hack - however instead of stealing a domain name (don’t have one) they decided to nick £50 from my Paypal account instead (thinking about it they seem to have managed to get into Paypal first then added this filter in later…).

I’m very skeptical that it’s been fixed once-and-for-all so i’m checking filters daily.

Meantime if i use Safari for GMail & GCal and Firefox for everything else am I right in thinking the backdoor won’t work ?

Thanks very much guys.

Denise,

Thanks for that link. I’ll certainly take a look as I’m currently hopeless with .htaccess.

Alex,

You’re right. There were some down-sides, but all in all it’s been a great learning experience, and I picked up a few very welcomed readers on the way.

Thanks for the compliment on my content.

Since then, I’ve been trying out several new community sites, and finally decided I’d give WordPress a try. Here’s hoping it works!

In the meantime, looks like you need more information on using your htaccess file - which is a security feature - check out http://www.javascriptkit.com/howto/htaccess.shtml

Anywho, good luck with future endeavors. I wish you the best!

-Dan

Dan apsyd’s last blog post..Line Rider Wii

@jez:

As you already in person commented on how horrible my website currently looks like (insert legit copout) I’d be more than happy to guest blog in exchange for some touch ups on my WWW face :)

@davidairey:

Anytime friend. If you ever have any questions on implementation of what I mentioned feel free to drop me a line. I’d be more than happy to assist in anyway that I can. After all, one more secured system, is one less system that is zombified/botnetted/… :)

–Russ