emily wrote:There was a problem with the forums before. Aparently, some of you were seeing popups. We are very sorry about that. We removed the popups and upgraded to the new version of phpBB. This should take care of things. Please let us know if you have any more problems.
-Emily
emily@pbase.com
Emily, thanks. Incidentally, it was not just popups - far more serious than that. As an example, I run XP SP2 and I got:
a) My hosts file was completely trashed with porn IP addressess
b) a new XXX toolbar was installed in IE
c) A resident proxy also got installed in my sytem (web.exe)
And all this after me sweeping every two days with spyware tools as well as running zonealarm.
I just wanted to make sure you knew the real effects of this break-in - went beyond just popping windows as your note indicates.
regds
arkin