Have you seen this strange behavior, when your Drupal sites start behaving oddly, or display a PHP error message, like a few days ago? Well, it's a virus. It is VERY wide spread, it effects Windows machines, it uses FTP connections to write itself to websites, and it downloads trojans for the people who visited the page.

Cleaning the virus is easy - delete the corresponding script from index.php!
Even most recent updates for antivirus usually won't spot the threat. So, if you are using Windows and you're part of an IT business accessing FTPs - you're it.

Now Strider's Studio is almost ready to upgrade to SiteHound 2.x but strangely, I have not had time to do this for quite some time now.

I have recenly been working on a simple custom ajax solution, based on query, that would include a simple send mail utility and a curl option. That solution is for static sites (yes, I also do these), and I don't plan to integrate it in Drupal.

Contact me if you believe it would be a good idea to lay that ajax solution out for free download.

One of the challenges I faced is that I could not find where to override Drupal 6 Installation theme, which is "minelli" and "garland".

Well, over here:

• /includes/theme.maintenance.inc, all occurrences of themes/garland are to be overwritten!
• /modules/system/system.install, lines 372 -376
• /modules/update/update.module, all occurrences of themes/garland