If you're wondering what happened this morning/afternoon

[smiley_cow]

Zach addressed it here.

I am in love with my anti-virus for catching it. You guys may want to do a scan of your computers as I am about to do now.

[Amerika]

I have an utter disdain for virus prevention but I read this and fired up malwarebytes. Caught it and also some stuff from pirated programs I downloaded.

[Amerika]

It's the same domain, I imagine the forum takes longer to restart or wasn't as high priority.


ANYWAY the interesting thing about this is the tone of espionage. The site got hacked, not by brute force methods but by someone on the inside. Maybe we're not going deep enough, maybe zack hacked his own website to steal money.

[DonRetrasado]

I've never gotten a virus (or, at least, it never shows up in virus scan). I've disabled antivirus on computers before when my subscription expired because I didn't need it. Maybe I'm just better at the internet?

[smiley_cow]

I don't know but I wouldn't be surprised. When Zach said 'index page' did he mean this page or the homepage? Because the homepage was where my virus scan caught a virus attempting to infect my computer.

Also is anyone else not getting the red dot that lets them know there are unread posts about when there are in fact unread posts about?

Edit: Also also, these posts appear to be in the wrong order. (this should be a response to Kovvy) :/

[DonRetrasado]

Some of these posts have not happened yet. Hmm. (again, this is after Kovvy)

[smiley_cow]

I tweeted Zach about it, so hopefully he knows or will soon enough. (Again after Kovvy)

[Kimra]

The forum has forsaken Kovvy!

Edit: this was also after Kovvy.

[Kovvy]

Oh no! Go-go AVG Whole Computer Scan!

Edit: Does this hacking have anything to do with the SQL fail on the boards earlier?

Edit the Second: It won't let me post any more! It keeps saying my last post was too recent, even though I logged off, finished a book (well okay there were only two or three chapters left, but still), and logged back on again.

[smiley_cow]

Edit the Second: It won't let me post any more! It keeps saying my last post was too recent, even though I logged off, finished a book (well okay there were only two or three chapters left, but still), and logged back on again.

Can you post anywhere else?

Edit: Yikes, I'm after Kovvy!

[Kovvy]

I tried in a couple different threads-- but now that it put your post in the right spot, maybe my post attempt will work?

Edit: Huzzah!

[smiley_cow]

Was it all in the SMBC subforum or was is other places as well? Because I've noticed a lot of the weirdness seems to be happening here.

Also: Yay!

[Kovvy]

Hmm... Well, I was trying to post in several subforums, I think-- from the New Posts page for me. I don't recall exactly, now that you mention it. Sorry!

[smiley_cow]

No worries, I was just curious.

[DonRetrasado]

Has anyone heard from Ed today? His absence is conspicuous.

do you
do you think they got him??