Hello readers,

The forum was offline for a while yesterday because of a hacking attack.Because of the attack that was successful the account was suspended.The offending scripts have been removed and the account back to normal.

It appears that we were fortunate that the hacking was done on taking control of the account for the nefarious purpose of sending phishing attacks on various places in the web.They left the database intact and the account functional.

That means we lost nothing..... this time.

We are working in the background to see what we can to improve security against such future attacks.It is possible that we will close this and the other political forum down again for a while.

Please be patient with us as we tinker in the background.

Hmm... interesting. Just coincidental I guess. I picked up a beauty on my old laptop on January 26th. I have a personal login password just to make it awkward in case the laptop gets stolen. Anyway, this error screen popped up immediately after I typed my password and it looked like it was from Microsoft. The fact that there were so many errors logged made me suspicious. I was fed up with the laptop as it was so slow and there was very little space on the 18 gig harddrive. My personal data was less than a gig. So I took the laptop to a PC fixer friend who put the harddrive into a carry case and from another laptop backed up my data onto a memory stick. I then went to Argos and bought an all singing all dancing Toshiba Satellite L750 with 4 gig of ram and 650 gig of harddrive for £800 LESS than I paid for the old laptop!

What convinced me I had been caught by a trojan was when I clicked on the fixit button it tried to open a secure web page to a pay site! As my dongle was not plugged in it coudn't do anything else. Heh!

The moral of the story is don't dump your anti-virus program just because your old computer is too slow.

(02-10-2012 01:04 AM)Richard111 Wrote:  Hmm... interesting. Just coincidental I guess. I picked up a beauty on my old laptop on January 26th. I have a personal login password just to make it awkward in case the laptop gets stolen. Anyway, this error screen popped up immediately after I typed my password and it looked like it was from Microsoft. The fact that there were so many errors logged made me suspicious. I was fed up with the laptop as it was so slow and there was very little space on the 18 gig harddrive. My personal data was less than a gig. So I took the laptop to a PC fixer friend who put the harddrive into a carry case and from another laptop backed up my data onto a memory stick. I then went to Argos and bought an all singing all dancing Toshiba Satellite L750 with 4 gig of ram and 650 gig of harddrive for £800 LESS than I paid for the old laptop!

What convinced me I had been caught by a trojan was when I clicked on the fixit button it tried to open a secure web page to a pay site! As my dongle was not plugged in it coudn't do anything else. Heh!

The moral of the story is don't dump your anti-virus program just because your old computer is too slow.

You might need to run a registry and disk cleaner.

I use this freebie:

LINK

Thanks SST. Looks usefull. Have copied data to my backup.

Good to know all is under control.

Amazing work SST.

Keep up the good work! I did wonder why the site was down a few days ago. I wouldn't put it past Greenpeace and their Ilk to start hacktivising Realist climate websites and forums.

BTW, I avoid all virus, hacking and registry problems! I use an Apple Mac laptop and have for years.

I have completed the deletion of the 15,561 e-mail error reports in the cPANEL.Most of them were about phishing baloney. 99.99% of them were undeliverable.

(02-11-2012 01:02 AM)Richard111 Wrote:  Thanks SST. Looks usefull. Have copied data to my backup.

You could try this freebie too.It looks for and deletes spybots.

When you download updates,chose global forum from the list.

Spybot

In both freebie's it is better to right click and chose the RUN AS ADMINISTRATOR to get it running.

Both of these and this one below was recommended by a computer software technician.

IObit Malware Fighter

Collectively along with free AVG do a better job than Nortion ever did.

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