Backyard Aquaponics
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Fruit tree forum is the same
I just posted what my security was saying if it helps

Viruses are rampant ATM... I haven't had virus issues for ages, probably 12 months or more, but both my home and work computers have been attacked in the last couple of weeks, as have the computers of a few other people I know. I have the current, updated, full version of Zone Alarm, plus Malwarebytes. A deep scan of one puter found 15 viruses, most were trojans... HEUR is the most rampant... 4 on the other puter, again two were HEUR's

According to a mate that is a puter nerd, the latest nasties embed themselves in your operating system and even if you've done a full scan and "removed" them, upon the next reboot they undo anything your virus scan has done and you're back to square one... without knowing. They also stop you from doing a system restore.

It's taken a couple of weeks of ginning around to get rid of them. Even after doing deep scans with Zone Alarm and Malwarebytes he had me download a piece of software that found another two that were "hiding"... it's all good now, but he reckons HEAPS of people are having issues ATM.

If you been having trouble with Internet Explorer, ie: it shuts down web pages then re-opens them, or constantly says the requested page is not responding...

...or if your browsing speed has slowed dramatically recently...

...or if you find you have to click more than once to get internet explorer to do something...

...or you are unable to do a system restore back to a previous selected date...

...I would update your anti-virus software and DO A DEEP SCAN OF YOUR PUTER!... or get someone to check it out.

I can't say I've noticed any increase in trojans of viruses.

I do have to say this though. It seems a rather worrying trend that BYAP and related sites are getting malicious code injections at least since the time that I've been around.

What you need to do is firstly make sure you lock down any personal computers you use to access the ftp/cpanel/admin sections of the site. Change passwords to good secure ones.

Get a brand new dedicated server with nothing on it.
Then, install a fresh, clean, newly downloaded copy of whatever content management system it is you have in place. DO NOT copy any code from your old websites. God only knows what sort of malicious code is sneaking around/hybernating in there.

Export your database from the old website and import it into the new clean, updated and secured site you have set up on your new server. Then make a backup of the files and database. Copy the site files to another directory on the server and get a script that will do daily comparisons between your copied directory and your main active directory. When you find a difference - ie malware injection, immediately wipe the entire public_html directory and replace it with the backup files.

Then try and find the security hole lol.

Anyway it concerns me because you have 6000+ people visiting your forum and seem somewhat blase about the fact you have malicious code attacks on a pretty regular basis. Securing the site would be my #1 priority.

we just had a visit from a virus that called itself platinum antivirus .Every time you tried to do something itsaid it was preventing an intrusion attack.Took computer to computer guy he found seven viruses and spyware stuff all through computer
He updated antivirus,told me to stay off dodgy sites and that the kids were killing computer with there games sites.

this - don't open obvious threats like "hey check out this cool video" emails
Don't blindly click ok and accept on every popup that comes up
If you go to a site and it says it's detected a virus on your pc, close it and don't go there again. DON'T click that it's ok to scan anything.

It's all stuff that people should know but the attitude of "i don't understand computers" leaves people open to threats.

Preventing viruses/trojans/whatever is 99% behaviour and understanding what you're doing. Your antivirus is there for the 1% of times where the threat isn't blindingly obvious.

Just had another look at the site (curiosity killed the cat)
Came up with a warning that this is a known attack site

I was really looking forward to checking the site out ... I'm sure its great anyway!