This blog got wormed
<p>This blog is one of many that got hit late last week by a particularly nasty and invasive worm targeting WordPress sites.  (No, it wasn&#8217;t a botched upgrade, as I saw at least one commenter speculate.) The first symptoms showed up either late Thursday or early Friday of last week, when links from the main page became garbled. What was going on was an attempt to insert pharmaceutical-spam malware into the site permalinks.  </p>
<p>This injection attack actually corrupted the mysql  database behind the blog, and some fairly serious surgery (which the ibiblio site admins were reluctant to try on a Friday) was required to fix it.  All posts and coments from Thursday evening or previous should now be restored.  The blog is now running WordPress 2.8.4, the very latest version which was rush-released to foil the worm.</p>
<p>A big hand to Ken Chestnutt, the ibiblio site administrator who did the actual repair.  Regular posting will resume shortly.</p>
