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Re: Autopia Attacked my Computer??? -
09-01-2010, 09:35 PM
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Originally Posted by Bunky
It is called hacking. Security can be breached. I just think the new owners of Autopia know little about hosting and all the issues. You just do not do it and walk away. It takes maintenance and constant watch for hacks but that is my theory based upon how slow the responded to the various issues since the upgrade, then host move, then patches, then this.
When did the ownership transfer take place?
2010 Hyundai Santa Fe - Harbor Gray
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Re: Autopia Attacked my Computer??? -
09-02-2010, 06:11 AM
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Originally Posted by sacdetailing
its so quiet on autopia, it feels weird and sad lol. no really. i was there like all the time and now nobody is posting or even commenting there.
Why would anyone even go to the site when it's infected with a virus. I wish the admins would just take the site down until the issues are resolved.
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Originally Posted by OCDinPDX
When did the ownership transfer take place?
About a year or so ago...
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Originally Posted by trhland
is it safe to go back on autopia?
No as of today I got this warning via my FF browser
What happened when Google visited this site?
Of the 643 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 292 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. The last time Google visited this site was on 2010-09-01, and the last time suspicious content was found on this site was on 2010-09-01.
Malicious software includes 8 scripting exploit(s), 8 trojan(s), 6 exploit(s). Successful infection resulted in an average of 3 new process(es) on the target machine.
Malicious software is hosted on 8 domain(s), including plotecco.co.cc/, autourl.in/, browserservices.in/.
1 domain(s) appear to be functioning as intermediaries for distributing malware to visitors of this site, including plotecco.co.cc/.
This site was hosted on 2 network(s) including AS31815 (MEDIATEMPLE), AS26496 (PAH).
Re: Autopia Attacked my Computer??? -
09-02-2010, 06:12 AM
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Originally Posted by trhland
is it safe to go back on autopia?
Firefox still blocks it if unless you lower your security proferences.
In the general case, I have a Firefox plug in called Noscript that blocks javascripts associated with a web page from running. This helps keep some malicious scripts from basically taking over your browser but unfortunately many web sites rely on it to work properly but the noscript plug in lets you pick which ones to run (usually associated with a specific web site like googleanalytics, etc.)
The bottom line Autopia's loss is everyone else's gain and if you do not keep up your web site you do not deserve the traffic.
Re: Autopia Attacked my Computer??? -
09-10-2010, 08:28 AM
No - I didn't really even see a new thread or an apology. Just a post in an existing thread stating they killed the beast or something. I would have expected a little more of an explanation/apology, though. There's absolutely no new posts over there. I wonder as word gets out if people will go back and get active as before.
one thing they did say in their post was that it was a VBulletin vulnerability or something to that effect - so if I were running DC, I'd definitely be looking into my security measures and such.
Re: Autopia Attacked my Computer??? -
09-10-2010, 08:50 AM
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Originally Posted by JaredPointer
one thing they did say in their post was that it was a VBulletin vulnerability or something to that effect - so if I were running DC, I'd definitely be looking into my security measures and such.
vbulletin or any other web application is vulnerable since that is what gets hacked. It is up to the admins to monitor activity, etc. You cannot just set it up and let it run.
With all the recent issues (vbulletin upgrade, server switch, responding to this latest issue), they did not seem to react very fast. They should have taken the site down asap once the reports started coming in.
Re: Autopia Attacked my Computer??? -
09-10-2010, 10:51 AM
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Originally Posted by Bunky
vbulletin or any other web application is vulnerable since that is what gets hacked.
Correct. There are measures that can be taken to minimize the risk factors, but you can't completely secure any web server to the point that it will require no maintenance or monitoring.
Re: Autopia Attacked my Computer??? -
09-10-2010, 06:01 PM
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With all the recent issues (vbulletin upgrade, server switch, responding to this latest issue), they did not seem to react very fast. They should have taken the site down asap once the reports started coming in.
I agree 100%. To continue to let forum member's computers get infected was not good.
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