Well, I didn’t think I was ever going to get back to my blog.  We have had a run of viral upper respiratory junk run through our family that has kept me busy tending to my children, my husband, and myself.  I hate giving medicine to my kids or taking medicine for that matter, but sometimes you just have to.  After a couple of weeks of enduring the coughing and the hacking and the nasty, never ending supply of phlegm and snot, we kicked the virus to the curb.

Then, much to my excitement, I get a notification from Adgitize that pop-ups are not allowed.  Huh?  What?  Pop-ups?  I don’t have any pop-ups!?!  So, I type in the URL for my blog ready to prove what I already know and, yes, you guessed it, there is a stinking pop-up.  Apparently, some random, worthless individual felt they had nothing else better to do than to screw with my blog.  While I am flattered that so much time and attention has been given to inserting some inconspicuous code into my blog, I would prefer that this individual use his or her obvious grandiose intelligence for something a little more important such as finding a cure for cancer, or developing a new green technology, or even determining if there is life on other planets.

Instead, I get the lazy ass, introvert who thinks it is a form of entertainment to sneak into someone’s code and violate their blog.  Look dude, if you are seriously that bored, come to my house.  With 4 kids, there is never a dull moment and it can actually be very entertaining around here.  Or, if you prefer, sit at your little weenie computer or laptop and keep jerking people’s chains with your code hacking knowledge.

I’ve actually appreciated having the opportunity now to learn more about the worthless hacking community out there and how vulnerable wordpress blogs can be.  I thought I would share some sites with good information about protecting your wordpress blog from hacking.  Here is a site that offers a plugin that will scan your blog for possible unwanted code, you can access it here. BlogSecurity is a blog that provides information about maintaining WordPresss Security. Holy Shmoly has a great blog post entitled “Did your WordPress Blog Get Hacked?” and it provides a lot of great tips and resources.

I’m still working on improving my blog and fixing code, so please bear with me as my site will likely undergo many changes while I work to improve the security. If there is one thing I have learned through all of this, it doesn’t matter how good your blog is, if it is not secure, then it can be accessed by unwanted lurkers and all your hard work will be wasted when your wordpress blog has been hacked.

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