I had a PC crash last week and lost the majority of my personal files.......grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr :mad2: Hope this is not related to the AS problems. Yes, I am in a bad mood.
Whats with the LINKBUCKS crap!!!! rediculous, great way to end the site!!!
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No flame. Just fact.
And if I were a sponsor of AS? You bet your ass I'd be pissed about the impact these recent events have had on the exposure of my business..., not to mention highly concerned about the security of the information conveyed to the owners as would obviously be required in obtaining a sponsorship role on the site.
Anyone else notice the mouseover's of the various sponsors last night asking for usernames and passwords?
Sheesh.
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don't call me i will call you!!
See I told you there is something wrong!!
john_bud
ArboristSite Operative
Couldn't access the site, so I decided to do brakes on my truck.
Grrrr
Stuck bolts. Rusty bolts. Worn out rotors. Rusty sticking calipers. Torn bracket shields letting the slider bolts rust and stick the pads. And to top it off the parking brake pads are rusted so bad the friction fell off! It's taken me from 07:00 to 5pm to get the rotors off of all 4 corners.
I could have been blissfully diddling away my time here... but oh no the hackers messed it up!
Now the site is back up, and I still have hours and hours of brake work to do
bummer.
Grrrr
Stuck bolts. Rusty bolts. Worn out rotors. Rusty sticking calipers. Torn bracket shields letting the slider bolts rust and stick the pads. And to top it off the parking brake pads are rusted so bad the friction fell off! It's taken me from 07:00 to 5pm to get the rotors off of all 4 corners.
I could have been blissfully diddling away my time here... but oh no the hackers messed it up!
Now the site is back up, and I still have hours and hours of brake work to do
bummer.
SawTroll
Information Collector
I tried coming on yesterday and got that "click this" icon that won't let you leave until you click one of them. I just go on taskbar and end the process of the browser. That usually does it. Sometimes I'm lazy and I just click those icons on other sites and I don't get infected. I think they get paid if you click those links as marketing or something. It won't let you leave the site until you kill it in taskbar. I also have AV, firewall and malwarebytes active. I'm clean so far.
Whenever I am in a bad mood. I look at your avatar. Seems to cheer me up
MechanicMatt
Cut Split Stack Burn
Damnit, AS was working normal for a while, now that damn LINKBUCKS crap started up again 
Well guys, here we go again, Ken
IMHO they need to shut the site down and finally fix things the right way, or hire the right people.
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Yep..... real PITA...was working fine last evening but back again now I see.....GRRRRRRR.....
SawTroll
Information Collector
Fits with what I have observed.....
Yup. I'm getting really good at going into settings and disabling JavaScript every time I want to see AS. I'm also getting really tired of having to do it.
You tech guys...how hard can it be to come up with a fix for this? I don't know anything about computers and the 'net and all that but with all the technology available there should be some kind of permanent fix for this.
Rant over.
I'm using Firefox and have NoScript installed and I never had any issues. It also speeds up browsing on all sites, not just this one.
deepsouth
ArboristSite Guru
It's back, and have posted many thoughts in off topic on this.
In short, it appears behind the scenes on the server the hackers have compromised the hosting and have set up back doors to just keep coming back.
whether the host used is "soft" or whether there is a known problem in the software platform - I don't know, but some radical changes are required.
Maybe a new host, upgrade to latest vbulletin software, I dunno.
But what is being done now isn't working.
Is interesting that tapatalk and it's database connection is not affected (yet, anyway).
Further, I went on from my pc just before, hit link bucks and then quickly exited the whole browser. Not going to do that again for a while now.....
In short, it appears behind the scenes on the server the hackers have compromised the hosting and have set up back doors to just keep coming back.
whether the host used is "soft" or whether there is a known problem in the software platform - I don't know, but some radical changes are required.
Maybe a new host, upgrade to latest vbulletin software, I dunno.
But what is being done now isn't working.
Is interesting that tapatalk and it's database connection is not affected (yet, anyway).
Further, I went on from my pc just before, hit link bucks and then quickly exited the whole browser. Not going to do that again for a while now.....
zogger
Tree Freak
If a site is compromised, the only way to be real sure it is back up and clean is install from a known good backup. Fairly common in the hosting world, etc to have snapshots of the site, on another drive, just for this purpose. It has to come from before the compromise though and you will lose anything added from that point to present. but..you want to lose whatever malicious code got buried, so that's that.
For your own personal stuff, learn to use the browser security add-ons. Firefox is easy to use, but you should use several addons all the time in my opinion, then learn whitelisting and blacklisting. Noscript, adblock+, better privacy, ghostery are all good. Noscript and learning to use it is the most important. Also keep a couple live CDs (operating systems that run friom a CD or DVD disk only) hanging around if you think your hard drive got boned.
Even whopper big sites with full time ace IT guys get compromised, there is no permanent fix, no perfect solution as tech changes all the time. dotgov sites have gotten pwned, big commerce sites, all of them.
It is like saying, need the perfect machine that will never break, no matter how much it is used. Just ain't happening.
