Category: Spider

Compromised.

My shell account at Dreamhost was compromised and this site was vandalized. It appears this was a wide spread event and a number of other sites hosted at Dreamhost were affected. If you have an account at Dreamhost, I recommend you change your passwords for your shell and email and check your web content for modifications.

I’ve cleaned up the mess (I think). Although as far as I can tell the Spider.xpi was not modified, I have generated a new version of Spider 0.0.2.7 to force an update to any Spider users.

YASU 0.0.2.6

Spider has been updated to 0.0.2.6. This update adds the command line argument uri as a synonym for url to work around a bug in Thunderbird which tries to process any command line argument named url as a mailto url.

This will allow Spider 0.0.2.6 or later to be used in the “download checker” tool to download, install and report on Thunderbird 2.

Current users of Spider can simply update. New users can install from spider.xpi.

Thanks to Scott MacGregor for finding and fixing the problem.