Think the forum might be under attack

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Think the forum might be under attack

Started by GMO, Mar 04 2011 10:10 AM

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Posted 04 March 2011 - 10:10 AM

My anti virus software keeps picking up that a suspicious program is trying to download as I look at threads and post. Also some posts are coming up as a google 405 error?

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Posted 04 March 2011 - 10:53 AM

Can you send a screenshot or soemthing please and an actually url or two.

I don't detect anything right now.

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Posted 04 March 2011 - 01:16 PM

Yes it was same with me. The program which was trying to acces was named as microsoft help.

I will post a screen shot if i will get that message again,

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Posted 04 March 2011 - 03:34 PM

It seems to have stopped happening. I did a scan, maybe it was my pc :oops:

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Posted 04 March 2011 - 03:47 PM

It seems to have stopped happening. I did a scan, maybe it was my pc

No Dave got the same message and so did I on my wifes notebook. It only gives you the message once and it said something about microsoft help. I took a screenshot but it would not paste into word/email after I came off the forum. There was also an ip address mentioned 128.

If anyone else gets th message please post it here.

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Posted 04 March 2011 - 04:33 PM

My antivirus blocked the alleged "attack", but I did notice that the forums took a particularly long time to load, that time. Did anyone else notice that?

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Posted 05 March 2011 - 12:22 AM

Forum's loading fine to me and did not observe anything funny from my antivirus. Has it stopped?

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Posted 05 March 2011 - 06:48 AM

Yes Simon,

Its taking very long time to open the page.... I've never faced this problem earlier.
But rest ok...

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Posted 05 March 2011 - 10:02 AM

Thanks for feedback, I'm doing a lot of work in the background with web hosts and forum software vendors to determine what the issue is.

I'm experiencing the slow down.

Please all members have you / are you experiencing any issues with forum, please say even if the answer is no. All feedback really helps.

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Posted 05 March 2011 - 03:05 PM

Accessing via a mac today rather than a PC and no issues.

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Posted 05 March 2011 - 08:23 PM

Fixed, safe and should be faster.

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Posted 05 March 2011 - 10:06 PM

Fixed, safe and should be faster.

Hi.

Just logged on tonight for the first time for a day or so and all seems fine. :thumbup:

Nasty hacker people! :angry:

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Posted 06 March 2011 - 04:36 AM

Well done Simon and team. Good work.

Regards

Ajay Shah

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#5 Simon

#6 Will5

#7 Hongyun

#8 Anish

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#11 Simon

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#13 Dr Ajay Shah

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