Forum Has Viruses

[rajhirani]

Hi

just logged on and view a few posts, then my antivirus started going haywire.

multiple viruses started be detected.

tried on another pc and got the same when i logged on.

Raj

[Noel]

Same here!!!!

gone extremely slow too

[Steve]

this has been sorted.

All the clubs have been getting these for the last few days...

Should be cleared soon

[mus26c]

Strange, my office network went down just after lunch time, and I was viewing LOC during lunch time

managed to get it back and running.

[Steve]

Everyone should update their virus software right now!

[Rob]

so was the board hacked then?? how did someone get hold of a lot of members email addresses??????

[Noel]

so was the board hacked then?? how did someone get hold of a lot of members email addresses??????

I presume we can be expecting alot more unwanted mail from now on

[Steve]

so was the board hacked then?? how did someone get hold of a lot of members email addresses??????

they didnt

they used the forums very own software, injected the database with data that creates the newsletters which then automatically started creating newsletter type emails.

This will be patched up very soon

[Rob]

ok then pleasedelete my email and any contact from the database then steve as i have had a few spam mails over the years that have come from here

[Steve]

You can change it in your control panel