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July 29, 2008

What Happened?

New comic, and a little information.

Hey, guys. Back from San Diego. Had a great con, but I came home to an inbox chock-full of questions and warnings about the state of my site, and the state of my host. I've had the problem explained to me, and I'm gonna go ahead and explain it to you, too.

Templar is hosted by Webcomics Nation, and my domain is a redirect; I don't actually have my own site and webspace for the comic. Over the weekend, WCN got hacked, and someone slipped some malware onto every page of the site in a secret iframe. Google caught on early, and began blocking WCN and sending out warnings to browsers.

(If you accessed the site anyway last weekend by turning off or toning down your browser's security settings, please, run a virus check on your computer as soon as possible. The malware was a Trojan. I have no idea what it was meant to do, but probably nothing good.)

Then, in a feat of timing I'd snort contemptuously at if I read it in a work of fiction, the second the programmers got the server scrubbed clean, WCN's domain registration expired. It was set to auto-renew on a card that had since been canceled, and was never switched over to a new account.

Everything should be fixed now, though. If it's not fixed for you, wait a bit for the DNS to propagate.

Sorry about that. Everything is better now, though.

Later: Super-informal con report. but for now, just the important part, via camera phone.

Posted by Spike at July 29, 2008 01:30 AM

Comments

You're such a sell out.

Posted by Little Kenny at July 29, 2008 09:47 AM
66.159.210.15

'Grats!

Seriously, though. Where was this mystery booth hiding at?

Posted by lentilstew at July 29, 2008 02:44 PM
72.199.30.140

It was really great seeing you guys! Jeez, it seems like you sell out every time! You're a machine. And book 2 is completely awesome, of course.

Posted by Magnolia at July 29, 2008 03:43 PM
74.65.194.178

This girl is so cute it's sickening!

PS: I love your work and hopefully my nursing schedule will free up so I can see you next year at SDCC(or maybe Wondercon?).

Posted by tgjason at July 29, 2008 05:10 PM
76.175.139.4

I'm glad you're posting about it...I've noticed several others have not been. Sure, it's not their responsibility or anything; and I believe a few of those are actually away, but there are some who actually posted new blog posts without even mentioning the trojan. I'm sure you guys get notified when something like this happens...and as I said, I know it's not ya'll's responsibility to let us know these things, but still, thanks for posting this for any of the readers who didn't get the heads-up, or for those who don't read comments.

[Just one more reason why Spike is awesome, as if we needed any more!!]

Posted by Savail at July 29, 2008 06:08 PM
66.90.137.45

Hah ! Ben is all "Oh my God, I'm actually having a conversation with a cute girl ! I've gotta keep talking, I've gotta say something, anything, oh my god what am I even saying, why am I telling her that ?

Posted by Wood at July 30, 2008 01:35 AM
81.48.224.97

Thank you very much; I thought the page was just screwed up, and didn't take the warning seriously.

Posted by not someone else at July 30, 2008 05:29 AM
66.208.215.118

Sold out!
Fan-freaking-tastic!!! WOOOO!

Posted by norm at July 30, 2008 05:44 PM
128.111.101.203

Jeez... guess I'll be running the comprehensive "scan everything (even my ipod and flash drive and printer)" check all day today - My laptop is too precious!

Posted by Alexis at July 31, 2008 08:31 AM
72.200.2.92

Ok, I'm callin it. Bipolar. "I used to do bad things and didn't know why," I've read that in things about kids with early-onset bipolar... though it could also be something from the "compulsive" side of obsessive-compulsive. But I remember having a lot of trouble controlling my behavior when I was manic... which could just mean I'm biased towards that diagnosis, I dunno, but it doesn't sound like schizophrenia, which was going to be my other guess.

Posted by vega at August 1, 2008 01:25 PM
97.115.162.105

My guess? Anxiety. The really crippling kind. That's why he was so proud at not totally freaking out when the whole Cook family guy came in and he handled it OK. But whatever it is, it must be serious enough that his parents and psychiatrist think he might be a danger to himself or others if living alone.

Posted by Jala at August 1, 2008 05:11 PM
24.62.37.236

People start talking about bi-polar and schizophrenia and what he used to be like and suddenly I can't get Higurashi out of my head...

Also I'm a couple of years late but I just loved the anime piss-takes (Retarded Succubus in particular, heh).

Posted by Exile at August 2, 2008 04:28 AM
81.50.112.219

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