Monster Shack Movie Reviews

This one took a little longer to write because it’s just so horrible, but heck, it was still pretty fun. Why, oh why do I put myself through this?

Enjoy!

Supermen vs the Amazons (1975)

Monster Shack WARNING: This movie is really bad…you might want to check out the trailer before going any further:

A really cool independent documentary about some Canadian homeless guys that race their shopping carts down these gigantic hills. These guys are totally nuts but you have to admire their spirit…

If this embedded dealee-thingee doesn’t work for you, you can also check it out HERE

Here’s the story:

So, there I was, checking to see if any new posts were on the site, and man, the login page looked pretty weird. Strange. Then the admin page for the site was also pretty screwed up: weird layout, missing pictures, missing buttons, etc.

What could it be? Did I screw something up? Was it the fault of my ISP? Hmmm…

Anyway, I replaced a few files from a backup I had (a few .php files were oddly only 200 bytes, BYTES, mind you, not KB) and all SEEMED well.

So, forgive my being busy, I thought all was well, and even my STUPID CHEAP anti-virus program (more on that later) wasn’t really raising any red flags, so…hmmm.

Then after a day or so, Randy, bless you, sir, sent me email reporting that there was indeed a virus trying to be loaded from my page.

Oh.

Crap.

A more in depth perusal of things revealed that somehow, somehow, (more later), every folder had a new index.html inserted into it, and almost all the .php pages were changed. (And obfuscated, so I couldn’t clean them up…clever, clever, hackers. Not.)

So, yes. Every folder on the site had been infected, along with all the header and footer php pages. A quick search revealed that there as an “IFrame” embedded in them all which, when loaded, tried to redirect the browser to a some scammer shit site. Happy Happy Joy Joy.

The clean up was fairly easy: Just download and replace the corrupted files. But how did this happen? I got a copy of the FTP logs and it was my work IP that was recorded as the “sinner” that uploaded the pages. (I thought I could blame WordPress for this, but the infiltration was much more comprehensive than that…I mean, EVERY folder on the site, even old, forgetten non-Word Press folders were infected…)

To make a long story short…I’m guess that, as mentioned before, the fact that FileZilla, by default (!!!), saved FTP user names and passwords in CLEAR TEXT on the computer may have had something to do with it. Who knows…the Internet is truely the Wild, Wild West.

So a quick change of the FTP password, a cleanup of ALL infected files, and all seems well.

A HUGE thank you to Randy for bringing this to my attention. Yes, I would have noticed eventually (real life and all), but who knows how much damage could have been done.

With that in mind, I end this post with a humble request: Please, do not hesitate to contact me if something seems strange on this site. (Besides my reviews, of course.)

It will take much, much more than gutless hackers to bring down this site.

I promise!

Well, after nearly 6 years of smooth running the Shack has been hacked. No big deal, just have to clean up some stupid stuff.

WARNING: If you use FileZilla as an FTP client it saves FTP passwords in clear text!!!! You will be hacked!

I think this is what has happened:

http://unsharptech.com/2008/05/20/filezilla-ftp-passwords-stored-in-plaintext/

You’ve been warned

Boy, I really had to force my way through this piece of crap; but because I luv you guys, I manned up, gritted my teeth, and sat through one of the longest 93 minutes of my life.

They Saved Hitler’s Brain

I don’t know if it’s really possible to enjoy this movie (I sure as hell didn’t), but go ahead and check it out if you dare.

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First, I want to wish everybody a great start to the new year!
(Can it really be 2010 already? Yikes!)
Anyways, I’d like to help some guys out by pointing you to their film called She-Rex
Here’s the trailer:

If it looks interesting to you, then why not dig into your wallet and support some independent [...]

Lady in the Water (2006)
Yes, Sean sneaks one past the goalie and grabs the coveted Last Review of the Year award. Damn. I thought I had it sewed up for sure.
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Now that the holidays are just around the corner, I’ll be busy eating too much, drinking too much, and staying up too late. Perfect!
I hope to be seeing everybody in 2010 for yet another year of crappy movies!
Cheers!
The Capture of Bigfoot

Thanks to Karl for sending me a fresh set of crazy sci-fi DVDs to take a look at. I just couldn’t resist taking a closer look at this one:
The Day Time Ended

Thanks again, Karl, for the new material to dig through!