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Robb Montgomery Offline

Founder

Joined: 07 Mar 2004

Total posts: 1497

Location: Chicago

Age: 43

Gender: Male

Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 5:22 pm

[UPDATE: I have called tech suppport as this now appears to be a widespread Web virus - not a phpbb virus.]

Woke this morning in KL to find that a few of the VIZEDS board's software files had been hacked by a new phpbb virus.

I just fixed up all the files again and we are now back up.

Please report any further problems with this latest attempt to steal our joy in this sthread.

(Our joy cannot be taken this easily!)

Cool

Last edited by Robb Montgomery on Mon Jul 02, 2007 3:28 am; edited 1 time in total

Grayson Mendenhall Offline

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Joined: 17 Dec 2006

Total posts: 50

Location: The Durham Herald-Sun, Durham, NC

Age: 27

Gender: Male

Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 8:20 pm

Robb, have you checked your Web site. I took a peek at it just now (Shamefully, I never had before...) and my virus detector popped up with at least three hits.

JasonTyler Offline

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Joined: 15 Sep 2004

Total posts: 20

Location: San Antonio, Texas

Age: 29

Gender: Male

Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 10:21 pm

I'm getting the same warnings as Grayson. The hacker appeared to leave a little present behind. Here's what the Virus Scan is saying...

"It's detected a virus called: "JS_DLOADER.NTJ"

Pops up each time you go to the site.

Mark A. Dodge Medlin Offline

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Joined: 18 Dec 2004

Total posts: 325

Location: San Diego Union-Tribune

Age: 47

Gender: Male

Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 10:22 pm

Me too. I thought it had something to do with my dilapadated IE6, but maybe not.

Luke Knox

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Joined: 05 Jan 2005

Total posts: 255

Location: Arizona Republic

Age: 28

Gender: Male

Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 10:47 pm

Yeah, my virus software goes haywire whenever I go to VizEds today. Something's screwy still, Robb.

Robb Montgomery Offline

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Joined: 07 Mar 2004

Total posts: 1497

Location: Chicago

Age: 43

Gender: Male

Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2007 4:47 am

OK - we are restoring from a server backup.

Sorry -we may lose the last few posts. When you see this one missing - we will be done.

Mike Braun Offline

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Joined: 10 Jul 2004

Total posts: 185

Location: Fort Myers News-Press

Age: 53

Gender: Male

Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2007 1:17 pm

Virus? We doan need no stinkin virus.
All you virus scanners doin it on a PC? My Mac hasn't pinged a thing on here and everything looks Hunky Dory through my G5 eyes. Seriously, is this simply a Mac-PC thing or did I just happen to weave around the minefield somehow?