Well, my website got hacked last week. Poor timing as it was just before the birth of our daughter on April 8. I am sorry if this caused any problems with anyone visiting my site. It was an unwelcome first for me and very strange to find that I was suddenly serving up a bunch of porn against my will…Actually, I found out because I got a notice from Google that the site was serving up malware—a black screen with a big warning notice in a red box. I guess Google is the Internet politzi now—well, I’m thankful in this case.

Apparently, this weird, encoded script was tacked on to several of my pages. In getting rid of the problem, I found out that there were a few entirely new folders on my server, one called “_images” which contained another folder entitled “amy-grove-nude” comprised of 1,094 lewdly named html files. There were also files with names that were strange anagrams of my own file names but they’d have underscores in them or the word order would be changed around.

While it was a virtual violation, it was, like all violations such as being robbed or worse—being physically violated—an awful feeling. “A net loss” as my friend, Hans, described being robbed. Icky.