Fraud Alert
Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2011 4:10 pm
[edit] Sounding the all clear! See this post below for details. [/edit]
Just got off the telephone with Roger (Truckingturtle) after giving him the unfortunate news that his web site has been hacked/hijacked and it is now listed as a malware site.
Posting here to advise anyone who drops into housetrucks.com that they are subject to computer damage and/or spy/malware installation on their PC.
If you haven't been to Roger's site recently, DO NOT GO NOW!!!. Wait until Roger and Fred have a chance to resolve the problems and make the site safe again. I will post an update in this topic thread when it is "all clear" once more.
If you have been to the site recently, your browser should have gone into full alert mode and warned you off of continuing. If you run some old version of a browser that didn't warn and protect you, I'd recommend doing a virus/spy/malware scan on your computer. If you don't have current virus software installed, I'm again going to recommend Super Anti Spyware. It's free, it works, and it doesn't clog up your PC. Whitens teeth and freshens breath too.
I don't know exactly what we are dealing with here. I've been a user of the Opera browser for many years, and I've never seen it go nuts like this while loading a page. For that matter, I didn't even know it was capable of detecting and alerting when visiting a hacked site. Firefox browsers should have similar capabilities.
Anyhow, that's the word, I'll be posting again when the nasties have been exorcised and it's safe to browse innocently.
Makes me feel less like my continuing efforts at spam and exploits on this site are simply paranoia. It's not paranoia if they really are out to get you...
Just got off the telephone with Roger (Truckingturtle) after giving him the unfortunate news that his web site has been hacked/hijacked and it is now listed as a malware site.
Posting here to advise anyone who drops into housetrucks.com that they are subject to computer damage and/or spy/malware installation on their PC.
If you haven't been to Roger's site recently, DO NOT GO NOW!!!. Wait until Roger and Fred have a chance to resolve the problems and make the site safe again. I will post an update in this topic thread when it is "all clear" once more.
If you have been to the site recently, your browser should have gone into full alert mode and warned you off of continuing. If you run some old version of a browser that didn't warn and protect you, I'd recommend doing a virus/spy/malware scan on your computer. If you don't have current virus software installed, I'm again going to recommend Super Anti Spyware. It's free, it works, and it doesn't clog up your PC. Whitens teeth and freshens breath too.
I don't know exactly what we are dealing with here. I've been a user of the Opera browser for many years, and I've never seen it go nuts like this while loading a page. For that matter, I didn't even know it was capable of detecting and alerting when visiting a hacked site. Firefox browsers should have similar capabilities.
Anyhow, that's the word, I'll be posting again when the nasties have been exorcised and it's safe to browse innocently.
Makes me feel less like my continuing efforts at spam and exploits on this site are simply paranoia. It's not paranoia if they really are out to get you...