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A hijack attempt apparently took the Classic BC server (Classic BC, Tuckerspawn, Original BC, Eros Calendar, NaughtyWords, BeastlyThoughts, Ms. Midnite, Qnez mail server, et al.) down sometime this morning. A simple reboot seems to have fixed things with no real damage.
- Erin
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a warning ...
...To us all, I don't pretend to understand the hows or the whys... Tells us all to keep all the patches and Anti virus, Anti spyware stuff up to date. Having an e-mail address out there I get some very strange mail at times. Some of it is very clever, the phishing bank stuff etc especially. Almost got caught by a spoof message from, supposedly, my ISP recently.
So do take care everyone.
Kristina
It's a minefield
Watch yourselves.
A number of years ago, I was dragged over the coals because I alerted people at work to the possibility of a virus attack and was told that I was stupid (actually the expression they used is not that polite, but it amounts to the same thing), because you couldn't contract a virus without first opening the message.
Now it appears that you can. Even seeing a message in the preview pane of Outlook can contaminate your system. I don't know whether the powers that be at Microsoft have fixed that, but it is pretty scary stuff.
Too many people out there think that like accidents, it always happens to other people, but no. You are far more likely to get something on your system than you are to have an accident.
I don't think you can be too careful and I echo Kristina's words when I say, get protected if you're not already as without it, you and people that you contact are at risk if you don't.
In this country, the government are trying to get ISP's to take more responsibility, but I fear that that is a long way off and really it IS YOUR responsibility, not theirs.