Kiyuki Darko
I've been reading about how rampant this thing is on the internet. Is Gaia updated and protected?
Heartbleed is not a virus.
Heartbleed is a security hole. Imagine you have a yard and you put a fence around it. You gave it a quick look and everything is fine.
Later, you learn that part of your fence is made of paper, and if someone dumps water on that one part, they might be able to get in.
However, if no one comes and dumps water on it before you put a new piece of fence in, you are ok.
SSL is that fence around gaia. HeartBleed is a fancy name for a hole in this fence that hackers could potentially use. It's not a virus, and it's not infecting servers, or spreading. There is also no reported instances yet that I have seen of anyone exploiting it. SSL is fairly solid technology and holes like this are rare. It's relatively easily repaired by applying an update.
That said, hackers who would exploit this hole are more likely to be targeting sites like financial institutions today. Gaia has a low benefit payout compared to most other targets.
I tried to test it using the test here:
http://filippo.io/Heartbleed/
And it returns a timeout, which, while not a clean bill of health, does indicate that the gaia server probably could not be easily accessed.