5 minutes, one tooth, dehacked for good?

I recently started playing some Fieldrunners again, the addictive game for the Iphone.  They have added a lot of things since I played last including a pseudo-multiplayer feature that allows you establish Fieldrunner buddies and compete to see if you can top each other’s score.

My buddy Scott (aka LL Homey Cool J) also is an avid FR player so we hooked up as in game buddies.  It didn’t take long until he sent me a “challenge”.  The challenge was to amass as many points as possible in 5 minutes on one of the levels.  Homey’s score was like 78k.   So I try a few times and I can’t get my score out of the 20’s even though I am killing all of the enemies.

The next day I asked Scott how in the world he would be able to more than double my score.  He offered nothing except that he was “good”.  Yea, ok.  I suggested that he may be using some cheat that I was unaware of to amass such a huge score so quickly.  Scott laughed at my accusation.  He even brought it up on air (he’s a DJ in my old home town), I heard about it from several people on Facebook.

So last night before bed I put an intense session, determined to find the key to the challenge.  I played for an hour but despite trying every strategy under the sun the best I could muster was just over 30K.  Again today I accused Scott of shenanigans.  He offered me one piece of advice, unfortunately it was something I already tried unsuccessfully.  I may try a few more times to unlock the key to this mystery, or I may just ignore Scott’s challenges in the future. 🙂

So I called the dentist office yesterday to have them work on that math problem.  It turns out that the insurance company was only reflecting the charges for one tooth, instead of the three that were worked on during that visit. That is what explains the dollar discrepancy.  Supposedly the claim will be resubmitted and at that point the numbers will all add up, we’ll see.

I have been going back and forth with IX Webhosting regarding the repeated hacks on several files on my site.  Every few days four files would have IFRAME code injected into them.  Each time it happened I would manually clean these files and IX would run an automated clean script to search for common malicious scripts. 

Each time it got hacked I would call back into IX and would have to explain the situation over again to a new tech .  Each time the tech would be bewildered on how the hack was occurring, especially based on some of the steps that were taken up to that point to secure the site.  Each time I hung up it was with the promise of a follow up from the tech which never came. 

On Monday I called once again after the files were modified on Sunday.  This time I got a guy named Kyle.  Well thankfully Kyle seemed to be able to do something beyond running a clean script.  He went through the files by hand and found a php file in a subdirectory that was not getting detected by the clean script that had malicious code in it.  He deleted the file and later told me that he thinks that was the source of reinfection.

So far, so good.  This will be day 3 since the last hack.