[dayglored]

Oh, poop, you mean all those wonderful pithy comments we put on the other thread are gone?

*sigh*

Okay, well, I'm going to bed, it's after 2AM. I'll stop back tomorrow... :-)

[Utilizer]

No worries. Talk to you when we all make it back then. :)

[dayglored]

I will repeat (in compressed form) my message of caution with regard to the infamous "Doctor Web".

1. DW sells a product (anti-malware) and through an amazing coincidence, also "discovers" malwares in places no one else finds them, that can be fixed by their products. Amazing.

2. DW has "discovered" malwares that are claimed to be widespread, but even after months or years, has failed to provide hard evidence of their existence. But in the meantime, the announcements make for great notoriety and bazillions of page hits for the tech web journalists whores. They love Doctor Web.

3. Skepticism is advised. Just sayin'.

4. That said, of course it's worth taking the usual precautions to harden your servers and do off-host backups.

5. Anyone who runs their webservice (e.g. Apache) as root deserves everything they get.