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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
26022 Posts |
 Posted - 12/12/2007 : 09:20:33
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Folks, our forums got hacked a little last Sunday. Some of you may even have noticed.
Someone managed to make himself an administrator, and then added a "trojan horse" program to our main forums page.
We've undone the changes, and fixed our software so that the same trick can't be pulled again.
However, if you visited our main forum page between about 2 PM on Sunday, December 9th and 9 AM on Monday, December 10th, and you are using a version of Internet Explorer that hasn't been patched with Microsoft's security upgrades since October of 2006, and your antivirus software is way out-of-date, you may have received the trojan "VBS/Psyme" and perhaps whatever it happens to try to load onto your machine these days.
No passwords, email addresses or other personal information was examined by the interloper.
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- Dave W. (Private Msg, EMail)
Evidently, I rock!
Why not question something for a change?
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pleco
SFN Addict
USA
2998 Posts |
Posted - 12/12/2007 : 09:48:14 [Permalink]
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| Sorry to hear that...I hope you were able to get IP address information... |
by Filthy
The neo-con methane machine will soon be running at full fart. |
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H. Humbert
SFN Die Hard
USA
4574 Posts |
Posted - 12/12/2007 : 10:10:28 [Permalink]
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Was that what broke the url links for a time? And if I'm using Firefox, should I be ok?
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"A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true." --Demosthenes
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool." --Richard P. Feynman
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
26022 Posts |
Posted - 12/12/2007 : 10:37:15 [Permalink]
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Yes, that's what broke the URLs, the hacker turned forum code OFF.
From what I can tell from the description of VBS/Psyme, it uses a very old security hole in Internet Explorer to do its dirtywork, so Firefox users should be fine. If your antivirus software hasn't alerted on anything, then you shouldn't worry. |
- Dave W. (Private Msg, EMail)
Evidently, I rock!
Why not question something for a change?
Visit Dave's Psoriasis Info, too. |
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H. Humbert
SFN Die Hard
USA
4574 Posts |
Posted - 12/12/2007 : 10:59:45 [Permalink]
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Ok, cool. Thanks.
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"A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true." --Demosthenes
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool." --Richard P. Feynman
"Face facts with dignity." --found inside a fortune cookie |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
 Posted - 12/12/2007 : 14:22:28 [Permalink]
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Yes, give me the fucker's IP address. I have a whole bucket-full of wheel weights ready to melt down for bullet material.
Shit! I just got over some wimpy, little, pizza-faced pussy who can't get a date screwing up my computer, and now this...
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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Valiant Dancer
Forum Goalie
USA
4826 Posts |
Posted - 12/12/2007 : 15:55:18 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by filthy
Yes, give me the fucker's IP address. I have a whole bucket-full of wheel weights ready to melt down for bullet material.
Shit! I just got over some wimpy, little, pizza-faced pussy who can't get a date screwing up my computer, and now this...
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Fil, you find this guy, I'll buy the rope.
Shootin' is too good for him.
Let him dangle a while.
Like until his quivering body is forever still. |
Cthulhu/Asmodeus when you're tired of voting for the lesser of two evils
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
9688 Posts |
Posted - 12/12/2007 : 16:04:09 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Valiant Dancer
Fil, you find this guy, I'll buy the rope.
Shootin' is too good for him.
Let him dangle a while.
Like until his quivering body is forever still.
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Can't we hang him up by his feet, and we can play piņata instead.
While trying to investigate the little rat bastard, he managed to screw up my system by downloading a keylogger on my computer. The attempt failed, but left my registry setting all whacked out. CTRL+Alt+Del wouldn't work anymore... 
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Dr. Mabuse - "When the going gets tough, the tough get Duct-tape..."
Dr. Mabuse whisper.mp3
"Equivocation is not just a job, for a creationist it's a way of life..." Dr. Mabuse
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Send them unarmed civilians for target practice..
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 12/12/2007 : 16:49:13 [Permalink]
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Hang him by the feet -- I like it; he'll stay concious longer as he goes into traumatic shock whilst being savagly beaten to death prior to the molton wheel weights.
I don't understand; what inspires people to commit this sort of pointless and often expensive vandalism? Hell, if it were personal, I could see some rhyme & reason for it, but it's not even that -- it's unlikely that this creep is aquainted with any of us (a state of affairs I'd like to radically alter).
I don't know how to find someone from an IP address but I'll bet that my son-in-law does. And then, the kneecapping can begin....
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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pleco
SFN Addict
USA
2998 Posts |
Posted - 12/12/2007 : 17:09:36 [Permalink]
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| I wonder if this was a Christo-terrorist. |
by Filthy
The neo-con methane machine will soon be running at full fart. |
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A little bit hacked
