Jeff,

Yes, you are right to criticise the ISP. Obviously they have learned
from their mistakes. That will teach me to use a cheap ISP! However, I
have reason to believe that they will be more security conscious in
the future and I do keep a couple of backups of my site elsewhere. I'm
not sure how their backups were trashed but it maybe that they were
online or they might never have tested their recovery procedures. I
think the security breach may be related to the fact that they support
PHP which I am discovering is an extremely powerful language.

Thank you for your suggested ISP but I prefer to use ISPs in this
country (UK) as it makes it easier to contact them if needed.

Cheers,

John Dunlop

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Jeff, you wrote:

> So... your ISP didn't know how to secure their systems from intruders.  And
> how exactly did the crackers get to the backups?  Not only were they not
> offsite, they were online?!?  Sheesh.
>
> If you were in the US I'd bother suggesting an ISP that seems to know what
> they're doing.  "But I won't... I won't... the hell I won't."  :)
>
> http://www.speakeasy.net/refer/175157
>
> --
> Jeff Woods <[log in to unmask]>

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