Trojan Virus Alert

This only applies to you if you are running an older version of Internet Explorer, have not updated windows with the latest security patches and do not have virus protection on your computer. Apparantly one of our ad providers was affected by a trojan and was serving it to our site for several days last weekend. This is a keylogger and could possibly compromise your game login and password. As soon as we discovered it, we pulled all of their ads. To see if you got the trojan, go to Program Files/Internet Explorer in your directory and look for a file named "syssmss.exe". If it is there, then open your task manager and delete the file. Also go to %WIN_DIR%\Downloaded Program Files and delete a file named either "fucksnow.exe" or "muma.exe". Then once you have done that, log into the game and change your password. In fact, change every password for every place you have typed since you got the trojan. There are also several online sites that scan your computer for free. http://www.windowsecurity.com/trojanscan/ http://housecall.trendmicro.com/ We apologize for this. In 6 years of running this site, nothing like this has ever happened. It kills me to think that we may have, even inadvertantly, caused anyone to have their account compromised. We're all about making the games better and more fun. Believe me, we will do everything in our power to make sure it does not happen again. Along with the advertiser who sent this, and in cooperation with the FBI, we are attempting to track down the people who sent this. I hope I get a few minutes in a back room with the bastards.

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RE: firefox ftw
# Oct 08 2005 at 9:10 PM Rating: Good
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And if you also read the start "old version of IE, NON-patched" Firefox, as things stand, isn't exploited because, like virii for Linux and MacOS, not enough people USE it. Once something becomes majority, all the flaws show up, because it becomes a target. So debating about which one is superior based on how it can be exploited, rather than it's features, is flawed, everything has some kind of exploit, IE is just a way to affect more people at once, currently.
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RE: firefox ftw
# Oct 10 2005 at 1:27 AM Rating: Decent
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The plural of "virus" is "viruses", FYI.
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