Apr 18, 2010 0
Dealing with a trojan virus on dreamhost
I host a lot of simple sites on Dreamhost. Imagine my surprise when I went to log into my control panel and was informed that google had listed one of my sites as being a suspected malware site.
The site that it referenced was a very rarely used site, that only housed a custom built app (more of a script than an actual app) so I was puzzled as to how this site could have become infected.
I logged into the host, and did a quick check of the directory structure, and immediately noticed some suspicious things. Read the rest of this entry »