Virus threat, supposedly sent by FPN Admin

[Admin]

Dear good folks of FPN,

 

A fair number of our folks are receiving messages purportedly from the fpnadmin gmail box, with a virus or worm attached to it.

 

This message does not originate from fpnadmin!

 

Do not, we repeat, do not, under any circumstances, click on the executable or any other attached file in that message.

Just delete it straight away.

 

This message does not originate from the FPN Admin Team, but very likely from an infected computer, which now is spreading itself by sending out emails to all addresses in the address book on that computer, and at least partly while pretending fpnadmin to be the sender. We received such a message ourselves, too, BTW, in the fpnadmin mailbox!

 

For the time being, we will send out messages from the FPN Admin Team by PM, in stead of using the gmail option, so do check your PMs on a regular basis when checking in to FPN.

 

We also noticed some database corruption problems, which we managed to fix. As a result, performance should be slightly better now.

 

Kind regards,

 

The FPN Admin Team.

Edited May 30, 2006 by FPN Admin Team

[Bill D]

Thank you, ADMIN TEAM, for taking care of this!

 

Bill

[Dudley]

Thanks for taking care of this so quickly!

[Wolverine1]

Thanks for the very efficient way in which you guys took care of the problem. BRAVO!!!! :)

[RLTodd]

Yes, I got mine. Nice to know what sort of people are visiting, isn't it.

[RonB]

Thanks!

[Call Me Misery]

I just got the e-mail... anything .exe in an e-mail is bad news

[maxrhino]

I use Yahoo for general e-mail use.

Very suprised they allow executables to get through.

Who's going to own up to opening it then?

[Slush99]

Thanks for telling. :blink: :blink: my computer wouldn't let me open it. *phew*

[amin]

Thanks for telling us. Glad my Mac doesn't know what an .exe file is .

[p-zero]

Same here!

[Slush99]

Thanks for telling us. Glad my Mac doesn't know what an .exe file is .

same here

[Guest Denis Richard]

Thanks for catching it !

 

Denis... whose PC does not know .exe either

[charliecompany]

Ah, Linux, thank you once again for not understanding those windows things.

[dr4kds]

Earlier I was going to email the admins and tell them of the spurious email I received (Mac also), but when I went to FPN, it was already down for repair. Good Job, quick work, up again quickly. Good Job!!

 

Jack

[Kelly]

Thanks fine admins! You had it already shut down when I was going to report it - nice work!

[wimg]

Thanks, guys and gals.

 

Apart from the emails, we had a problem with the database as well. Superadmin Roy managed to locate the problem so we could all help fixing it. This is why the board was brought down for a short while.

 

The problems with the email and with the database were reported by some very vigilant folks here, so thank you all for keeping an eye on our board, and help us keeping FPN a pleasant experience!

 

Warmest regards, Wim

[Macuser]

Thanks for telling us. Glad my Mac doesn't know what an .exe file is .

I love Macs! They just say no to viruses!

[Guest Denis Richard]

I think that was one exceptional operation by the admins !

[Dudley]

This is the fastest ever i've seen a board come back up after an attack.