Igor Posted December 15, 2005 Report Share Posted December 15, 2005 Dear members!It's very unpleasant to say about this problem, but it seems that some hacker(s) infected our forum. We temporarilyturned it off and will solve this problem together with Invision support. I highly recommend you to check up your PC with antivirus (for example McAfee or Antivirus Kaspersky) with newest updates if you visited our forum 14th or 15th December.Please excuse us for this problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alrobin Posted December 15, 2005 Report Share Posted December 15, 2005 Igor,No problem! It didn't take you very long to get things back in service. It must be frustrating for you though, to have something like this, especially when you are so hard at work on the new version of PTE. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest damor Posted December 15, 2005 Report Share Posted December 15, 2005 Dear members!It's very unpleasant to say about this problem, but it seems that some hacker(s) infected our forum. We temporarilyturned it off and will solve this problem together with Invision support. I highly recommend you to check up your PC with antivirus (for example McAfee or Antivirus Kaspersky) with newest updates if you visited our forum 14th or 15th December.Please excuse us for this problem.How utterly frustrating and annoying some people with half a brain can be is way beyond comprehension.I must say that I had no problems and would like to thank you for the speedy and professional way that you and your team handled the problem. there is no need for you to say sorry, that should be left for someone else.again thanx for advising everyone to check their computors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Techman1 Posted December 15, 2005 Report Share Posted December 15, 2005 Igor,My system got the infection, but I didn't really realize where it had come from until your message today. My Antivirus software picked it up almost immediately. Had it been immediately, I would have realized that I was just on the WnSoft forum. It didn't hurt anything on my PC. As Igor recommends, please check your system right away if you don't have some type of Anti-virus software enabled to check in realtime on your PC.Thanks Igor. We don't want you working on viruses, when there is a Beta to preview soon. How dare someone disrupt your development efforts. If the Beta slips, I'm sure no one on this forum will complain.We're all looking forward to testing this new version of PTE 5.0!Take care and happy holidays!Fred Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Posted December 16, 2005 Author Report Share Posted December 16, 2005 Also there is a wonderful antivirus program - AntiVir www.free-av.com (It's fully free for non-commercial use) p.s. I very like first results with new graphical engine of v5.00, especially almost ready new Visual editor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Posted December 16, 2005 Author Report Share Posted December 16, 2005 Invision support and we will work on additional protection of the forum, so please ignore possible temporal problem with accessing during nearest several days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimlarkey Posted December 19, 2005 Report Share Posted December 19, 2005 Does this infection have a name, please?Cheers,Jim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Posted December 19, 2005 Author Report Share Posted December 19, 2005 McAfee shown it as "JS/EXPLOIT-HELPXSITE"AntiVir shown as "EXP/VBS.Phel.AV"Kaspersky Antivirus shown "Exploit.VBS.phel.av"p.s. right now Invision support is upgrading forum to the newest version to maximally protect our forum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest damor Posted December 19, 2005 Report Share Posted December 19, 2005 What form of virus was it and what does it do?Damor.ps searched for it in norton using all names......no results Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Cox Posted December 20, 2005 Report Share Posted December 20, 2005 Yahoo search revealed the followinghttp://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_130610.htmken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Cox Posted December 21, 2005 Report Share Posted December 21, 2005 Dave additonal info for youhttp://us.mcafee.com/virusInfo/default.asp...&virus_k=130610seehttp://www.picturestoexe.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=3873as to what Ron first noticedalso the banner at top of page did not say wnsoft forumit said microsoft update or words to that effectone acquaintance that had mcafee running in the background had popup messages everytime he visted the wnsoft site -- he would run a full scan of the system remove trojan, revisit site and alarms again.thus Igor took site down asap to get things resolvedmy systems showed no trojan - guess the Romans didn't get to me:))ken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alrobin Posted December 21, 2005 Report Share Posted December 21, 2005 I was on the Forum when it happened, too, and I did not get any warnings from AVG. Just all of a sudden a blank page when I tried to access a thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest damor Posted December 21, 2005 Report Share Posted December 21, 2005 Hi Ken and AL. Phew, Glad to say that i'm clean.Thanks for the input.cant help feeling that i'm being watched tho'Cheers.Dave. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alrobin Posted December 22, 2005 Report Share Posted December 22, 2005 Dave,I think you got infected with some spyware! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest damor Posted December 22, 2005 Report Share Posted December 22, 2005 Hi Al.wonder how "eye" got that??????????? Merry Christmas and a happy new year to you, or as they say in wales, "Nadolig Llawen y blewyn newedd dda"Cheers, Dave. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alrobin Posted December 22, 2005 Report Share Posted December 22, 2005 "Nadolig Llawen y blewyn newedd dda"That's easy for you to say!Merry Christmas to you too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest damor Posted December 22, 2005 Report Share Posted December 22, 2005 Try it this way Al.NA-DOL-IG LHOW-EN UH- BLEW-IN -NEW-WITH-THAR.(taken from speaka da welsha) a two page book by damor. Dave. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alrobin Posted December 23, 2005 Report Share Posted December 23, 2005 OK, I get it! It's perfectly phonetic! Just like Irish! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest damor Posted December 23, 2005 Report Share Posted December 23, 2005 That has to be Canadian Irish of course Dave.Hey Al, How did you get on my avatar? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maureen Posted December 29, 2005 Report Share Posted December 29, 2005 Just returned from Wales - Land of My Fathers,no viruses there just coughs & colds so ..........Blwyddwyn Newydd Dda of course I shall be expecting "Clennig!" on New Year's Day...but this year PTE v5 will be just as welcome! Cyfarchion y Tymor i chwi'n gyd !Pob lwc am 2006"Clennig" = special money given to those who wish you Happy New Year before mid-day and should bring the rich giver Good Luck in the coming year."Cyfarchion y Tymor i chwi'n gyd" = seasons greetings to you all and good luck in 2006Maureen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest damor Posted December 29, 2005 Report Share Posted December 29, 2005 Just returned from Wales - Land of My Fathers,no viruses there just coughs & colds so ..........Blwyddwyn Newydd Dda of course I shall be expecting "Clennig!" on New Year's Day...but this year PTE v5 will be just as welcome! Cyfarchion y Tymor i chwi'n gyd !Pob lwc am 2006"Clennig" = special money given to those who wish you Happy New Year before mid-day and should bring the rich giver Good Luck in the coming year."Cyfarchion y Tymor i chwi'n gyd" = seasons greetings to you all and good luck in 2006MaureenDiolch' Maureen,But you forgot the phonetics for Al ! !!!!!!!!!!!Dave(damor) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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