Network Solutions' post cast some vague aspersions at WordPress:

"We continue to look out for our customers and our security team is reviewing logs to determine which WordPress instance or plugin may need to be fixed. We have also been working with experts in the WordPress community on this issue."

So, without specifying exactly what the supposed problem with WordPress is, they have squarely pointed the finger at WordPress or some WordPress plugin. To back up their spin, they claim to be "working with experts in the WordPress community".

Yeah. Sure.

Here's the deal:

1. If you use shared hosting, any shared hosting, you are not only at the mercy of other people's decisions, always a bad idea, you are also ALWAYS going to be fighting a losing battle against the company's two main imperatives: to stick as many people as possible onto one server and to pay as little as possible for server admins who know how to monitor what happens on that server.

2. Companies like Network Solutions, to whom hosting is merely a ludicrously profitable sideline that they stumbled upon accidentally in the wake of their ludicrous good luck in being handed the monopoly on domains, do not give a merry damn about the well-being of their hosting customers. As large corporations they do, however, know, deep in their DNA, that when a problem crops up, it is ALWAYS a smart idea to shift the blame elsewhere. So, despite the fact that this specific problem only affects their customers, they blame WordPress, which is used, without this specific problem, by pretty much every other host in the world.

So, Jeffro, you're going to ask who might be right in this particular spat, Network Solutions or Matt?

Seriously?