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Old 03-19-2005, 02:40 PM
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Well if it isn't one thing it's another, you may have gotten an email last night as we had a little breach of security. Not exactly a hack, but good enough to cause some headaches. Long story short, I did something I should have known better to do, I clicked a link via AIM and a keystroke logging program was installed.



As you may or may not know, we implemented a new backup program last week which gave us a daily and a weekly offsite, I took this opportunity to try them both, both worked, we lost a couple hours worth of posts and all is back to normal.



Thanks for your patience and support..... it's always something isn't it?



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Old 03-19-2005, 03:25 PM
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was the keylogger that you got called wupdate.exe? as in the same as they were trying to auto download when accessing the site last night?
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Old 03-19-2005, 03:32 PM
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That would be the install program yea, they can pretty much call it anything they want. Run spyware killer and it will axe it.
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Old 03-19-2005, 03:35 PM
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I dont think i got it, firefox prompted me to install it and I didnt
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Old 03-19-2005, 03:38 PM
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Yea, i tried ie and firefox, both blocked it.
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how do you find out about these things? is there an alarm, or does the hosting company alert you somehow, or does it take a fellow drunk NP member to slur it to you at 4am?
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[quote name='ambassador_josh' date='Mar 19 2005, 04:38 PM']how do you find out about these things? is there an alarm, or does the hosting company alert you somehow, or does it take a fellow drunk NP member to slur it to you at 4am?

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I was pretty on top of it, I pretty much knew I was fucked when I went over the events of the day, then logged on and saw it... I'm pretty active around here
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good looking out
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Old 03-19-2005, 07:36 PM
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eyah, was pretty weird. wounder if anybody got it if they tried to log in? i didn't hit any buttons when it showed up. was kinda funny reading the messages on it though.
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So the site just was telling me the security certificate was expired. Is this phins doing? I cancelled all of them and am posting anyway.
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