Joomla, Drupal, Wordpress, I'd say you should find a forum for people managing small ecommerce sites and read for a bit.

Take a look at true eCommerce solutions. I'd suggest avoiding Wordpress, as it is most susceptible to exploits if not kept up to date While there are ecommerce plugins for Wordpress, it really is just a blogging CMS.

For super easy to manage yourself, I'd suggest taking a look a Shopify — Create Your Online Store
also check out Ecommerce Software & Shopping Cart Software Solutions by BigCommerce
A little bit more complex and you'd need someone to set it up, but locally hosted: Magento - Magento Community Edition - eCommerce Software for Growth

The first two are the most secure and easiest to immediately get up and running.

The first two are out. Will not use something hosted by someone else. Got to be hosted on my own server. I want control over it so if something needs to be fixed I can get it fixed not be held hostage by another company.. Learned this first hand when I was with ixwebhosting when they refused to give me my files back when the site was inaccessible. Liquidweb has been fantastic in the 13 months I been with them. Their service is well worth the additional (not cheap) funds I pay them every month instead of going with a shared server setup with loads of other traffic on it.

I own my carts outright right now and would prefer to continue that way. Is miva shared or purchased?

Scott, there are quality hosting companies that specialize in hosting e-commerce. That's what you need. Whether you own it on your server means that you probably have less recourse when a problem comes by.

(And JohnnyD , I would not recommend Scott using those three CMSs to host the e-commerce portion. Probably should have clarified that a little better but I would consider Drupal or Joomla for the balance of the site.)

Glad Liquidweb has worked. I've been with them for 5-6 years now? On my second server and will probably do another next fall.

Ask Liquidweb what their options and support are for E-Commerce tools. You could theoretically go with a small shared hosting account to setup, and when ready roll that into a Linux based VPS - just a thought.

Already looked, os commerce. Really don't want shared though. That's one of the reasons I went on my own to begin with. I really want stuff kept in-house. If I own it and they don't give me good enough service I have a multitude of people that I can pay to work on it if necessary. If it's shared hosting then they typically take their own time to address the problem...you always hear the same thing, oh nobody else is having this problem...sure...as my site is down and people can't get what they want. It happened before with ixweb. Not saying I'd run into this with LW but if it ever did then I can still call Ryan the guy who moved it all last year and is familiar with how it's setup/whiz at working on it.

I'll take a peek at drupal later.

Is that installed on the server AND the local computer or just on the server and everything is done via browser?

Yeah, power up the soldering irons

Don't worry about Drupal. Talk to LW and see what they say regarding commerce stuff. They support that too.

Web browser. This is how most of the world does it now, excepting many larger systems.

Gee the web a browser? are you sure?

John os commerce is what they show on the site.

Scott, if you are hard set on hosting everything on your own server, then Joomla will probably be your best option. Take a look at some of these e-Commerce options:
e-Commerce - Joomla! Extensions Directory

You'll use a web browser to access, add and edit your website, but it will all be hosted on your own VPS.

Hitman pro is my new best friend.

no more redirects

TRACKING COOKIES :smash::smash::smash::smash::smash:

Cool Dude. I want to come look for plugs now.

Blow. That. Machine. Up.

At a minimum, back up everything and do a clean install. There's no way to guarantee you got it all and chances are pretty good that you didn't.

shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

He likes the pain

mmmmm make it hurt bill you big studmuffin

bastids got me again. google re-directs. Same thing.

i tracked my oatmeal cookies right back to BJ's.

Quit looking at midget porn.

But seriously, you probably never had the old machine 100% clean.

You seem to be having some unresolvable problems.For what you use your computers for you might seriously want to take a look at a Linux OS.

OK,to all you geeks who beat me up last time for suggesting this...fire away.But in Scott's best interest a Linux OS is a viable solution.

It was clean before but it's infected again. hitman found 3 tracking cookies but not the virus this time. ugh. here we go again.

It's coming in via a script or image on a site somewhere. I have that script blocker on there now but there's alot of good midget porn that you have to unblock the script thing to see anything on the page. Must be the links nebe sends me :hee:

RHEL with firefox is pretty good

Don't worry about the tracking cookies... not really a big deal. If you are getting infected,it's probably from malware injected into a legitimate website's javascript.

Use FireFox and install the "No Script" addon. In a week or two, you'll filter through most sites you visit and have added enough exceptions that you'll rarely notice it in the background.

"No Script" is a good first line of defense. A good Network Security solution is needed to back it up. Get Kaspersky Internet Security Suite.

I have some software that I run that visits 50k-300k different websites/day and archives some data about the sites. I'll get at least 100+ sites that have malware on them and have not had an infection yet. Kaspersky is good stuff.

Or, like I said in the past, run your internet browser in Sandboxie - Sandbox software for application isolation and secure Web browsing and you'll never have to worry about malware getting onto your computer again.