Is it just me??

[ivor&mel]

I received an e-mail about a tool for win2win that I thought looked suspicious, so after checking I deleted it.

If thats the same one you received I was very lucky, I`m running zonealarm suite but I didnt put it to the test so I dont know if it would have prevented any infection.

Sorry to hear its causing you problems, go to zonealarm and test their software free for 2 weeks. It will do a scan and get rid of any problems, hopefully.

I`m still evaluating mine, its seemed to have slowed down my computer but it may be a price worth paying.

Peter

I run Zonealarm as firewall and AVG as anti-virus. AVG immediately picked up the Trojan in the e-mail; my ZA would not detect a Trojan in the exe file, it would only detect dodgy outgoing/incoming connections if the Trojan had been run.

I've never looked at the anti-virus capabilities of ZA: all I use is the free firewall version. I'm always a bit suspicious of software that tries to do too many jobs! I use the ZA/AVG combination on all my machines, plus Spybot Search & Destroy (though I've read about problems with that recently) and Ad-aware. It seems to have kept me safe and clean, but nothing is ever 100% foolproof!

I used the forum first thing this morning without any problems. I suspect the hacking or whatever occurred between 10:00 and 11:00 - the e-mail was sent at 10:55 and I immediately went to the Forum and then started seeing the problems. The e-mail was sent from IP address 66.147.238.53, which resolves to hc1.ded203.com and is part of a netblock assigned to HostRocket Web Services of New York.

Are there any disgruntled Forum members with technical skills enough to hack the site, perhaps?

Ivor and Mel

Are there any disgruntled Forum members with technical skills enough to hack the site, perhaps?

I've just reread that, and it sounds ambiguous! I am not suggesting hacking HostRocket Web Services! I was just wondering if the hacking of this Forum had been done by a disgruntled Forum member!

Ivor and Mel