Who Wants Some Viagra?

Readers, I offer my most humble and sincere apologies for attempts to sell you $2 Viagra as fake as the last orgasm I had with my ex.^* It is tragic that there are men who dread sexual inadequacy so entirely that they will willingly hand their credit card numbers over to dubious spammers. I doubt that many such men are among the readership of this blog.  You, Readers, seem a wiser lot.

(Um, yeah, I am reminded that my ex occasionally pops by. So, I guess there might be at least one exception.  Oh, and Hobert-the-hobgoblin—him, too, perhaps.  Oh, and those MRM blokes I like to talk about, who like my ex probably use it while flying solo, so to speak.)

Someone, some awful, evil, mean someone, inserted malicious code to redirect The Bitter Divorcée to superpuperdomain.com. (That would be super-pooper-domain-dot-com. Oh, the irony!) That appears to be a server located in China and hawking illegal drugs that promise to enhance your sexual performance, assuming you have guy junk. (Seriously, can’t we just let the fellas who suffer from erectile dysfunction buy the stuff over-the-counter?  It would kill so many hassles for the rest of us.)

This site was having unprotected relations with a plugin that relied upon an older version of timthumb.php to handle images.  Since the cache directory is public and accessible, our attacker probably got TimThumb to fetch a PHP file and put it into that same directory which is preconfigured to execute any file with a PHP extension.  (The things a gal can learn.)  Once the TimThumb-using plugin was removed, my most-favorite neighbor and technological wiz-dude spent hours ferreting out compromised code.

Wiz-dude, Xie Xie. (My Chinese sucks, by the way—it’s been twenty years.)  Also, thank you to the readers and friends who helped us crack the hack. To those of you who were trapped in cheap Viagra hell by The Bitter Divorcée, I am so sorry!

(For the seminal guide for how to get rid of this, Mark Maunder is your go-to guy.)

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*That was a joke.