THE UPDATE IS A LIE. (DORKORIFIC HAS INDEED BEEN HACKED.) D:

[search_soleil]

Okay, I don't want to spam people's FLists about this, but there seems to be some confusion in the comments of the previous post.

First, copperbadge is an excellent resource on this hacking plague, as he was a victim of it mid-October. Of particular interest are these posts: ONE, which outlines his own experiences, and TWO, an important addendum on the

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[pigrescuer]

Thank you!

Luckily for me, the link didn't eve work.

The question is - what is going to happen next?

(and to think I was so excited when I saw the update email in my inbox)

[vedova_nera]

Sorry to disturb you, but I just read your comment and I needed to check, because I'm freaking out. In few words: I clicked on the link and it didnt't work for me too, so... can I hope I'm free from any nasty thing that's on that site?

Thank you!

[pigrescuer]

Well, my thingy did't picking any bugs up, so I'm assuming it was fine, but maybe you should run one anyway?

Sorry for not being more help!

[vedova_nera]

No, thank you, you have been really helpul! *_*

I run a scan yesterday, when I paniced xD, but my antivirus didn't find anything, and the pc works normally, so I think it's fine.

[jadedanielle]

I scanned my computer and it found something called a "tracking cookie", could that have been from the website? It's the only thing it found... :x

[jadedanielle]

Also, thanks for the links - very informative! I feel bad for that person that got hacked, though :(

[randomneses]

Meh, you'll get those everywhere.

[toronja]

Yeah, I got some weird tracking cookie thing, too. Hmm...

[randomneses]

ugh, my computer won't let me run the google pack programs.

OMG, THANK YOU.

[dr_schreaber]

THANK GOD.

I was freaking out for a second there.

[staggers]

Has the virus been known to attack Macs as well? Because usually I just rely on the fact that Macintoshes seem to be incredibly virus resistant, so I don't run scans.

[buggerfck]

I second this question! D:

[contretemps]

fourth'd

[couldnthave]

so i've been running a virus scan on my mac using a program my school gave me and checked all the cookies on my computer. i found one cookie from the russian website which i deleted right away and the virus scan hasn't found anything so far. but it really isn't the safest course of action to not use any virus program on your mac! there are viruses that are mac-specific and viruses that target both macs and pc's. macs are actually virus resistant, there's just a significantly smaller number of mac-specific viruses so it's a little harder to get one (but far from impossible) if you guys don't have any sort of virus scanner on your computer (since i know the one that comes with the computer, mac scan, is only a trial) you should download iantivirus and run a scan!