So I got virus.

[Alan92RTTT]

Somethings you just don't joke about.

IMO, Computer viruses/hacks are some of them.

[green-lantern]

I was just going to ask if there was any possibility of foul play. I'm glad I wasn't on Sunday. I have all my virus stuff up to date though.

[green-lantern]

Somethings you just don't joke about.

IMO, Computer viruses/hacks are some of them.

I've always said they should put these hackers under the jail when they are caught spreading viruses. Think how much money it costs people.

[Alan92RTTT]

IP traces back to Latvia and looking at it look like another site on the host(someone running word press) got infected and it spread across the site because we all run from the same copy of PHP. It seems to be a new variant of an attack and I've found several references of sites getting hit over the last few weeks.

[PearlWhiteR/T]

I was wondering why the site was shut down... Good thing it was dealt with quickly

[terrets]

Hey Alan, Im curious about how your hosting this sight? If you don't mind sharing. Also, servers on Linux?

[jba3]

that is not cool, but... I'm using linux mint and "never" worry about that kind of stuff.

Yes, Linux doesn't have many viruses vulnerabilities, but it's not because it's secure. It's because it has almost no market share. Why write a virus for it when the windows share is 25x larger, and has the most computer-incompetent users too? Lots of windows security issues are because everyone runs as an admin all the time, installs 900 tool bars, and clicks anything that has flashing colors.

It has lots of hardware issues, the software updates almost never work without breaking a custom config, and it's an absolute pain the rear to work with sometimes, even on basic things. You have to be darn smart to use it daily. I've used computers for 20 years, starting with MS DOS 3.3, I've done network admin and software development for 10 years, and Linux STILL pisses me off quite often with occasional use (I've tried Fedora, Mint, SUSE, Gentoo, Ubuntu).

Linux is the TT 3S of the Desktop OS world.

The key when this happens is to react to it. Thats why I turned the site off for most of the afternoon.

Exactly the thing to do. A 404 is way better than a virus.

The virus was NOT the catalyst. The reaction was.

Agreed. The "F the users! Leave the ads on!" attitude was the issue. Figure, out of say 5,000 members on 3Si, on the high side, maybe 50 got the virus. That's 1% ... hardly enough to cause a mass exodus.

[terrets]

Linux is the TT 3S of the Desktop OS world.



Exactly the thing to do. A 404 is way better than a virus.

Totally agree with both of these. Nice analogy .

[sketch]

nice avatar! isn't it about time d.x.3 comes out?

Ha ha. You said it. Someday...

And as for Alan's response to this I think he was spot on. If shutting down is the only way to protect everyone then that's what needed to be done. Good call man!

Somethings you just don't joke about.

IMO, Computer viruses/hacks are some of them.

DX3 will be released in Feb 2011 (Finally). What will hopefully be the deserving sequel to one of the best computer games ever.

And on the note of viruses, if you ever get any kind of computer infection (or suspect you have one), please PM me & we can start a thread. I can help you out, it is part of what I do for a living. I've helped a couple people on 3SI before and am more than willing to lend a hand with getting your computers running nicely again.

[terrets]

Woo DX3 OMG it looks amazing. I dont know if I should get it for ps3 or pc though.