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Air Gun Home Forum Index » AirGunHome Q&A » Virus Warning    View previous topic :: View next topic  Virus Warning   Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2011 9:51 am rsterne Moderator Joined: 15 Jan 2008 Posts: 2998 Location: Coalmont, BC When I come to this site I'm getting a virus warning from Norton.... Any idea what's going on?.... Bob _________________ Dominion Marksman Silver Shield - 5890 x 6000 in 1976, and downhill ever since! Airsonal: Too many to count!   Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2011 10:24 am farrlarr Member Joined: 11 Nov 2010 Posts: 35 Location: Pocatello, Idaho I'm having the same issue, no matter whether I come in from the bookmark on my computer or through Google. Looks as if there is a problem.   Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 2:52 am AirGunEric Site Admin Joined: 20 Jan 2007 Posts: 6908 Location: "Out There" Crap host provider was compromised (database was not, fortunately, so no one's email addresses got out)- I have changed to a different service which should provide a faster, more secure hosting service. _________________ ` I'd say "I care." But I'd be lying. Canadian Airgun Supplier: http://www.scopesandammo.com/storefront   Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 9:46 am rsterne Moderator Joined: 15 Jan 2008 Posts: 2998 Location: Coalmont, BC Quick response, Eric.... Many thanks for looking after the Forum in such a professional manner.... It's working fine now.... Bob _________________ Dominion Marksman Silver Shield - 5890 x 6000 in 1976, and downhill ever since! Airsonal: Too many to count!   Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 12:23 pm oddtodd Silver Status Member Joined: 30 Dec 2008 Posts: 2029 Location: Richmond, IN USA Hey Eric? Now I am getting a 500 server internal error half the time when I try to open up the forum. I can only get there from the banner on the main page. THe banner at the bottom of the start page. _________________ Airguns: Two starlings talking "Larry, did you hear that? Larry?? LARRY!!!!"   Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 1:34 pm AirGunEric Site Admin Joined: 20 Jan 2007 Posts: 6908 Location: "Out There" oddtodd wrote: Hey Eric? Now I am getting a 500 server internal error half the time when I try to open up the forum. I can only get there from the banner on the main page. THe banner at the bottom of the start page. I believe your browser has not yet "flushed" the old pages out of its cache yet. Try going to the page and hitting "reload" a couple times and see if it changes. It does appear to be good now. Also- the bonus to all this is that a) I managed to grab the complete database before everything crashed down, and the complete avatar directory- so no posts or any information got lost b) this host provider is a "semi-dedicated" shared service, not the free-for-all "shared" service as before so, at least as it appears to me, things are now blazingly fast loading up. _________________ ` I'd say "I care." But I'd be lying. Canadian Airgun Supplier: http://www.scopesandammo.com/storefront   Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 1:39 pm oddtodd Silver Status Member Joined: 30 Dec 2008 Posts: 2029 Location: Richmond, IN USA Thanks for the info Eric. I think you are faster at resolving my problem than my cable company is. lol _________________ Airguns: Two starlings talking "Larry, did you hear that? Larry?? LARRY!!!!"   Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 1:42 pm AirGunEric Site Admin Joined: 20 Jan 2007 Posts: 6908 Location: "Out There" On another note: It also appears that by virtue of being around for a few years now, and having (apparently) a crapload of "lurkers"- the previous host provider was claiming that we were being indirectly targeted by hackers. We were one of the largest 'clients' on their shared server. Apparently, big bandwidth usage draws attention by automated website malware- and it hammers away at a website/service until it finds a weakness- up until yesterday, the intrusions were relatively minor and easily resolved. That being said, if the host provider had been doing their job properly, yesterday's 'invasion' could have been stopped before it got started. Perhaps the idea here was they stopped doing their job well in order to have something like this occur and then try and convince me to "upgrade" the package. Unfortunately for them, I already had an upgraded backup in my back pocket. Ha! _________________ ` I'd say "I care." But I'd be lying. Canadian Airgun Supplier: http://www.scopesandammo.com/storefront   Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 8:18 pm Slavia Moderator Joined: 31 Mar 2008 Posts: 4382 Location: Waseca, Minnesota, USA Merci, merci, mon capitaine. Without Airgunhome, last night the only alternative was to watch hours of Virginian reruns with She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed. We're both nursing colds so the conversation was lively indeed. I'm happy you got it worked out. _________________ ¡Listo! ¡Apunte! ¡Fuego!   Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 8:30 pm farrlarr Member Joined: 11 Nov 2010 Posts: 35 Location: Pocatello, Idaho Excellent, rapid follow-up!! Well done! This makes the second airgun forum to which I subscribe that has suffered some sort of cyber-attack. On the one hand, that sucks. On the other, given the suggestion that lots of activity invites such attacks, I really like the idea that airguns are so popular that lots of folks are jumping in!   Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 8:20 am Alstone Moderator & Site Supporter Joined: 01 Mar 2007 Posts: 4139 Location: Linconshire, ENGLAND Nice work Eric, you were certainly quick on the trigger. Plus the site does load fast. Al _________________   Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 11:32 am donec Senior Member Joined: 19 Dec 2009 Posts: 836 Location: central Texas Pflugerville area   Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 4:11 am AirGunEric Site Admin Joined: 20 Jan 2007 Posts: 6908 Location: "Out There" Just an "FYI"- the system being offline for an hour or two earlier (this morning) was me, not the host provider. Seems the friggin' hackers really love us lately- so I was installing a bunch of (hopefully effective) defenses and things went offline for a bit. Maybe it's time to give that bulletin board software change some more thought... _________________ ` I'd say "I care." But I'd be lying. 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