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Smokey Stover · Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 10:45 am Post subject: HACKER DANGER. BE ALERT.

As of today (perhaps yesterday), the message board HFTM (Help Fing The Missing) has been hacked into and sabotaged. If you receive e-mails and don't know the sender, you are advised (not just by me) not to open them. This is a favorite way to send viruses. You open the e-mail, the virus is installed on your computer. Whether it just messes up your computer, or sends the virus on automatically to everyone on your address list, I know not.

You personally may not be on the HFTM members' list. But if you are, watch out. Many HFTM members are also members of InSession, and these members are complaining of damaging and nasaty e-mails.

I'm not even faintly an expert. Those here who are ought to look into this. All I can advise is to be EXTREMELY careful of what e-mails you open. And be even more careful with attachments.
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Qubilai · super star constellation Joined: 17 Feb 2007 Posts: 54

I don't understand why that board has been targeted like that. This has happened a couple of other times.

DurhamDawg · Sliver STAR Joined: 08 May 2006 Posts: 225

I got some of those emails, though I haven't been on the hftm site in ages.

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