Site problems? and possible virus.

[BobD]

There has been some discussion about site problems over the last few days with people not getting advice of posts. I also found that if I went into the site direct the response times were very slow. Today my email in box was full of failed e mails which I had not sent with titles such as "this is really cool" . I did a full scan (takes ages) which found a threat which was cleaned and when I re-booted found that one advice of a post(from StephanieT had appeared. Could it be I wonder that the two are connected?

In any event I suggests that you all run your virus checker scan and crap cleaners asap just in case the infection came through HUL.

Cheers

Bob

[Bagrat]

Thanks Bob will do.

[Hidden]

Hi Bob, thanks for highlighting this, I have reported it to the admins at Health Unlocked.

[PeterWh in reply to Hidden]

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***** EVERYONE DEFINITELY MUST RUN A FULL SCAN *****

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This virus / attack may well be more serious than initially thought.

On Sunday I noticed that all my windows explorer history had been deleted so it no longer showed the sites that I had visited over the last few weeks.

I then saw BobD's post and went to run a full antivirus scan yesterday evening but could not find it and as it was late theft it until this morning. When I checked I found that the ANTIVIRUS HAD been UNINSTALLED (but definitely not by me!!!).

This morning contacted supplier and they confirmed that it was not on my PC (using remote access) and no trace and it was reinstalled. Running full scan now which is 41% through in 3.5 hours.

Also found that WINDOWS DEFENDEE had been turned OFF. Again NOT by ME.

With the last two I can not say 100% that this was caused by the weekend problems (the log had been deleted as well) but it looks very likely as I know it was on last week.

[Hidden in reply to PeterWh]

Thank you Peter for your reply. I will highlight this again to the admins.

[Vesa]

Hi everyone!

I have discussed this with our engineers and this is the response I have received:

1- The technical issues on our site were felt across the platform and were not specific to the AF Association Community. These issues are unrelated to any post, and are to do with technical updates that we are doing to support more users on our growing platform

2- It is very very unlikely that a virus would be able to get sent across the site, between users. The only real way this could possibly happen is if someone posted a link to a malicious site and users clicked onto it. The reason this is unlikely is because we have very aggressive spam filters in place. These filters are so strong that they sometimes make it very difficult for users to post totally normal external links on posts

If a virus could be spread through HU simply by users reading a post, then I am sure we would have received many other reports of this happening to many users. This is not the case, so I think we can safely say that no virus has been spread through our site (phew!)

I hope this helps and that it makes sense! If you want to discuss this further, or have any other concerns, please email us at [e-mail]

Best wishes,

[BobD Volunteer]

OK I just spent a while talking to my tame computer genius who tells me that this is nothing to do with the forum. Apparently this is rife at present due to all the old virgin customer's account who moved to talk talk having been hacked. I think the way talk talk leaks like a sieve is well known by now thanks to all the troubles last year and this is all ongoing from it.

Peter he feels sure that your problem is unconnected to any HUL issues as well and probably not connected to the virgin matters unless you were once with them. My e bay account has been misused and frozen as well, again via my old virgin account since I was never able to find a way to change my account settings on e bay to use the new g mail address.

I have now deleted my virgin from outlook but such is the b-lls up with talk talk that I can't get into it to change password as it is supposedly no longer active despite being used by the hackers. Thus things will continue to fly about but I will no longer know about them.

So to summarise we have had a weekend of frantic activity by the bad guys which unfortunately corresponded with HUL forgetting to tell us they were messing about with their systems and as a consequence two and two made sixteen. (It is alleged.)

[BobD Volunteer]

Just when we thought it was safe to go back in the water-------. Seems that somehow the bad guys have migrated from Virgin media across to my new isp as I have had to do a recovery this morning following rejection of my account mid email. So annoying!