Important notice about problem with forum!

[Igor]

Dear members!

It's very unpleasant to say about this problem, but it seems that some hacker(s) infected our forum. We temporarily

turned 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.

[alrobin]

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.

[Guest damor]

Dear members!

It's very unpleasant to say about this problem, but it seems that some hacker(s) infected our forum. We temporarily

turned 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.

[Guest Techman1]

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

[Igor]

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.

[Igor]

Invision support and we will work on additional protection of the forum, so please ignore possible temporal problem with accessing during nearest several days.

[jimlarkey]

Does this infection have a name, please?

Cheers,

Jim

[Igor]

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.

[Guest damor]

What form of virus was it and what does it do?

Damor.

ps searched for it in norton using all names......no results

[Ken Cox]

Yahoo search revealed the following

http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_130610.htm

ken

[Ken Cox]

Dave

additonal info for you

http://us.mcafee.com/virusInfo/default.asp...&virus_k=130610

see

http://www.picturestoexe.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=3873

as to what Ron first noticed

also the banner at top of page did not say wnsoft forum

it said microsoft update or words to that effect

one 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 resolved

my systems showed no trojan - guess the Romans didn't get to me:))

ken

[alrobin]

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.

[Guest damor]

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.

[alrobin]

Dave,

I think you got infected with some spyware!

[Guest damor]

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.

[alrobin]

"Nadolig Llawen y blewyn newedd dda"

That's easy for you to say!

Merry Christmas to you too!

[Guest damor]

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.

[alrobin]

OK, I get it! It's perfectly phonetic! Just like Irish!

[Guest damor]

That has to be Canadian Irish of course

Dave.

Hey Al, How did you get on my avatar?

[Maureen]

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 2006

Maureen

[Guest damor]

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 2006

Maureen

Diolch' Maureen,

But you forgot the phonetics for Al ! !!!!!!!!!!!

Dave

(damor)