Inside Pool Mag hacked

[runscott]

Well thats of course if nobody posts a picture of someone shooting an 8 ball into Mahomads mouth. You know how they about stuff like that.

Sev, sorry - my response to John was reactionary and I realize that your thread was merely reporting something interesting that you had discovered.

While Donovan was being a complete hypocrite, his message is still valid - all this drama and flaming is b.s. and doesn't add to the forum.

Later

 

[Sev]

Where's VLAD when you need him??

Vlad the impaler? He's buried under the flagstones of a church in Rumainia. At least thats the word on the streat.

 

[Donovan]

Sev, sorry - my response to John was reactionary and I realize that your thread was merely reporting something interesting that you had discovered.

While Donovan was being a complete hypocrite, his message is still valid - all this drama and flaming is b.s. and doesn't add to the forum.

Later

I wasn't going to answer any of these nonsense posts, but then I thought of some funny things to say, and I am a sucker for trying to make people laugh so...

Man, for a guy who keeps saying how he doesn't care and it is just the Internet and none of this matters, you sure waste alot of time posting about this stuff.

Oh and here is the quote that this runscott gave me for my negative rep on the post that he says he agrees with:
"you are nothing BUT drama. Practice what you preach and we'll all be happier"

LOL, and he calls me a hypocrite?

runscott: Flattery will get you no where...I already have a girlfriend. But hey, I'll take your interest in me as a compliment.

 

[pbat2751]

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Now now fellas, lets not start this again.

Best picture ever!!!
LOL

 

[cuesrus]

trollscott

I wasn't going to answer any of these nonsense posts, but then I thought of some funny things to say, and I am a sucker for trying to make people laugh so...

Man, for a guy who keeps saying how he doesn't care and it is just the Internet and none of this matters, you sure waste alot of time posting about this stuff.

Oh and here is the quote that this runscott gave me for my negative rep on the post that he says he agrees with:
"you are nothing BUT drama. Practice what you preach and we'll all be happier"

LOL, and he calls me a hypocrite?

runscott: Flattery will get you no where...I already have a girlfriend. But hey, I'll take your interest in me as a compliment.

Trollscott strikes again! LOL
Trollscott= nerdy card collector= he is negative towards everybody because he thinks he is above all

Donovan/ John,
Trollscott does this all the time. Nothing new here. Just ignore him, he will go away. Eventually...or after he gets the last word.

 

[whitewolf]

Dude, why are you contributing to the crap with comments like this?

If you don't want to be here then why write anything at all?

I like you but I don't get where this is coming from.

As for the security issue - it's a big one, a lot of folks have their real email addresses here and getting a board or a hosting account hacked leaves the people who use that board or visit that website open to viruses and trojans.

I don't know if IPM did get hacked but I can tell you that IP did not long after we took it over. At that point we hadn't changed anything. So it totally sucked when all the users at the IP forum started getting viruses and all kinds of alarms from their anti-virus software due to our site. We fixed it but I am sure that some people are still upset and won't go back to IP because of it.

I am writing to you from a freshly installed copy of Windows because a virus/trojan infected my computer and disabled my AV software after I plugged into a hotel network here. I have fought this thing for weeks and finally I just wiped the drive and started all over.

So it's not cool to make light of something that may be a serious issue. Sucks that you have to be defensive about every little negative thing that happens at IPM and is reported here.

Anyway that's my take on it. Glad my email isn't there for JR to sell. (and yes that's my negative opinion as one who has been burned by JR Calvert.)

I have been fighting viruses for 6 months now.

Good luck on reformatting your hard drive. Personally, this has NEVER worked for me. Used Norton Wipe Disk, Darik's Boot & Nuke. The Trojan always comes back.

As a matter of fact, there is a newsletter I just read from PC Magazine that says that a Congressional hearing is going on this week (4/16 - 4/20/07). The Department of Commerce and The Department of State were hacked so bad that they had to scrub all there computers, backups, and everything imaginable. And they "still cannot be certain that they have cleared everything off".

Everyone may remember a few months ago when 2 of the 13 of DOD servers which support the internet were brought down by hackers. Microsoft had their butts hauled in immediately to fix their insecure operating system.

BTW, the hacks were determined with some certainty to be originating from China.

 

[DaveK]

Good luck on reformatting your hard drive. Personally, this has NEVER worked for me. Used Norton Wipe Disk, Darik's Boot & Nuke. The Trojan always comes back.

It's hard to imagine someone who can screw up c:\> format, but if there is someone, it might just be you

Dave

 

[Vahe]

You're "new here" but you know EXACTLY what's going on already! Wow. Impressive!

"AZkonosur" as a name - hm - I suppose you missed a couple of lines before that where the folks who did the hack LISTED THEIR NICKNAMES. But, obviously, since the first two lines of the message are in English, the third MUST be English as well! Despite the fact it's obviously NOT English and there's several odd characters in it that are not used in English words. Or the fact that "AZ" was actually "Az", as in a foreign-language word and not an acronym in all-caps..

Here's a tin foil hat for you. Enjoy it!

The text (Az Konusur Çok iş Yaparız.!) is in Turkish. I am Armenian and can't read it but someone here might know someone who can read Turkish.

 

[ScottW]

Good luck on reformatting your hard drive. Personally, this has NEVER worked for me. Used Norton Wipe Disk, Darik's Boot & Nuke. The Trojan always comes back.

What's happening is you're doing the same things, post-format-and-install, to get the virus again as you did before. Perhaps some piece of software that you're re-installing is infected? Or you're hitting websites that have malicious scripts running that try and hijack visiting computers?

 

[whitey2]

Reformatting the hard drive may not remove the virus.

It's hard to imagine someone who can screw up c:\> format, but if there is someone, it might just be you

Dave

Reformatting the hard drive may not remove the virus. When you use the "FORMAT" command, you
are only wiping out and recreating the FAT partition on the hard disk. If the virus is of the "MBR"
(Master Boot Record) type, that code will still be present on the hard disk, and will be executed when
the computer is restarted. Using the "FDISK /MBR" command will erase, and recreate the MBR.

 

[John Barton]

I have been fighting viruses for 6 months now.

Good luck on reformatting your hard drive. Personally, this has NEVER worked for me. Used Norton Wipe Disk, Darik's Boot & Nuke. The Trojan always comes back.

As a matter of fact, there is a newsletter I just read from PC Magazine that says that a Congressional hearing is going on this week (4/16 - 4/20/07). The Department of Commerce and The Department of State were hacked so bad that they had to scrub all there computers, backups, and everything imaginable. And they "still cannot be certain that they have cleared everything off".

Everyone may remember a few months ago when 2 of the 13 of DOD servers which support the internet were brought down by hackers. Microsoft had their butts hauled in immediately to fix their insecure operating system.

BTW, the hacks were determined with some certainty to be originating from China.

I read a report done by an an American IT professor here in China. He set up a honeypot system to determine how much the networks get queried here. He found that there was an incredible amount of traffic with other networks probing his ports and he found his email boxes were quickly filled with trojans and viruses. China apparently has a thriving underground of professional trojan writers. They better hope China doesn't get tough on them because the penalty will be far worse than whatever America dishes out.

This is actually a huge problem on the internet right now. People talk about China censoring the internet but actually a lot of ISP's filter traffic from China which means that innocent users who want to access websites hosted on servers that are blocking Chinese traffic can't get there. Instead of learning how to properly secure their networks they just do a blanket traffic block.

In my personal case I am forced to go through proxy servers when I want to access all the internet.

Trojan/Virus update: I reformatted the drive, let Windoze do all the updating to SP2 and all the patches (took about a day and a half with me falling asleep between steps.), let the virus program do all it's patching, let all the software go and get all the updates and patches and so far it's humming along allright. I did NOT reinstall the Office Bloatware. I am trying to only use very small programs so as to not overwhelm the startup routine and the normal operation with too many processes open. Since it seems every program in the world these days has to keep a portion of itself running in case you "want" it. :-(

I have switched to Gmail and am running all of my POP email through it. This has the effect of having Gmail clean/filter the email before I get it and so far they have successfully filtered about 99% of the spam. It's faster than using Outlook Express or Thunderbird Mail and I don't need to jack with the quirks of both of those programs. I can send through my own servers so my personal and business email have the correct send from addresses.

I have switched to Trillian for my IM needs as it handles AIM and MSN in one program without the intrusive bloatware of each of those entitites. So far so good there.

I miss my Ubuntu-Linux. But it's not ready for users like me yet. One thing about Windows is that it's made for the lowest common denominator meaning that most non-technical people can follow the directions without much problem. With Linux there is a clear benefit to having it but there is also a point where the user just must know something about what the machine is doing under the hood and that is where it breaks down for the mainstream.

So far so good.

 

[azhousepro]

I have had a couple different viruses on old work machines and my old PC.

I can proudly say that I have not had one virus in the last year though.

Once you go Mac, you never go back.

Mike