Special announcement: Badware is gone

So, I was checking my blog’s statistics and found it weird how it suddenly had so much fewer visitors and no traffic referral from Google for a couple of days.

Then I was reminded that my Wordpress hasn’t been updated in a while. So I ran a check in the source code of my blog for some common hacks (usually an <iframe> code inserted somewhere), and guess what, I found some.

This lead to Google then listing my site as “harmful”. This is a special announcement entry to tell you all (however few regular readers I have) that the badware is removed, and Wordpress is updated to the latest and greatest.

This is also a post to tell you that, if you own a Wordpress blog running a version older than 2.3.2, you should update. More info could be found on this Wordpress support thread. I hope Google didn’t scare anyone off (especially potential new visitors of my blog) by saying it’s a harmful site. And I hope they do the review as soon as possible, as I submitted it for review arleady.

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