My site has been down for the past 24 hours or so. Apparently someone has been exploiting a hole in the frontend of Joomla to install phishing schemes on my server. I have found and removed two of them in the last ten days, but my host, bluehost.com, found another and decided to suspend my account. Apparently dropping me an e-mail and asking me to remove the phishing files was too much trouble. But, the files have been removed and they have restored my service.

We now return you to our regularly scheduled blogging.

Update: It now appears that in the process of restoring my site, several critical files were deleted from my Joomla installation. This means the front end of my site is no longer working. All in all, this is not a big problem, as I had intended to remove Joomla and create my own site by hand using Dreamweaver. But it will be a couple of weeks before I can create the new site, so the home page of Blue Cord will not be up and running in the meantime. Fortunately, this blog runs on WordPress instead of Joomla, so it is not affected.

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