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neilrieck
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Hardware configuration: Various platforms all sporting graphics cards: two P4 system running Windows-XP with Nvidea GTX-560 graphics cards.; two core-i7 systems running Windws-7 with AMD HD-6500); lots of stuff in between including two Core2 systems running Windows-Vista.
Location: Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
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Re: Message about malicious software

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artoar_11 wrote:I sent a PM to neilrieck
Sorry for the long delay; I should have responded sooner.

Yep, my stuff is hosted at www3.sympatico.ca (owned and operated by Bell Canada) and we now know that hundreds of accounts were hacked (someone dropped a file tiled "default.php" into every directory; supposedly the sever had been set up to process php scripts by default). Not sure if someone got hold of the admin password or if it was an inside job. Anyway, things got so bad that the server was dropped offline for two days where someone at Bell Canada did some sort of file-wipe followed by a file-restore. To make matters worse, I never received any notice (before or after) from Bell Canada. I did get my first alert about this problem from a moderator at this site so "thanks".
Neil Rieck
Kitchener/Waterloo/Cambridge,
Ontario, Canada.
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