Apparently something hacked the ScrollBoss site and started injecting some BS spam-related linking code into pages of the site. I shut off access to the site, changed passwords and gutted the entire spot (and that’s why the background patterns are currently missing). I have some security-related things to look into before uploading the entire site over again and making a fresh install of WordPress (I have back-ups of the posts, comments, etc.). I have no idea how long this is going to take. I have no idea how it got in, so I have no idea what security things to fix. That means I just have to look into a bunch of possible things before getting the site up and running again. Please take some time to run a virus scanner on your computer if you’ve been there recently. Nothing serious came up in any of my recent scans that I have scheduled for multiple times a week, but it’s better to be safe. I apologize any inconvenience this has caused anyone.

This is a giant pain in the butt that will slow down EVERYTHING that I’m working on right now. Luckily, none of the other sites (including this one) seem to be affected, so that will give me a bit of elbow room to get those places protected, too. A few things have been removed from the site, but all the content is intact.

Consider bookmarking or following the ScrollBoss Tumblr to see the “heads-up” alert when the site is ready again. I’ll post some things to make up for the fact that there isn’t a site right now. Sorry again for the inconvenience and thank you for your time.

BTW, just in case you didn’t see this in any of the other places where I post:

Filed under: Illmosis updates by James Beaver