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Yesterday I had cause to rejoice that I have a Linux only computer. I went to HostGator’s forum for clients, and discovered in the announcements that back in September there had been a huge crisis, when it was discovered there was an exploit on our cPanels (where we webmasters do our administrative tasks, and it had cause those with Windows computers to have all kinds of wierd conflicts.

Some could not access their sites, some were re-directed to other sites, some saw popups of sites they had never visited, some had their MySQL databases down, and some had strange new databases entered, (Huh?) Oh my! All kinds of problems!

I can’t say that I was aware of any of this in any way. (Aside from some spamming of my forms, which I don’t think was related).

http://forums.hostgator.com/showthread.php?t=10939 As I read further in this forum, I discovered that those of us who have linux computers were pretty well safe. It was the Windows users who suffered, although some who use Firefox as their browser did not have as much trouble as the ones using Internet Explorer (IE).

Right now I’m trying hard not to gloat, but I feel strangely rewarded for my efforts in switching to SUSE and even the hassle in re-doing my install of version 10.1 this fall.

I also was proud of how the head of HostGator got in there and used his connections to patch things up for his clients. It really is a great host and I’m pleased I choose them back in June. HostGator

Now, how can I tactfully suggest to more Windows users that they would be better off switching to Linux? I need to watch for my opportunities.