Was I the only one who experienced that little freeze 15 minutes ago? Or was it a slight hiccup with Lefora itself?

That was the aliens messing with your memory after they probed you.
Love your sig. May steal that at a later date.

-coloneljack

LOL  Its ok, it was what Jack said!!

Thanks :D

Was I the only one who experienced that little freeze 15 minutes ago? Or was it a slight hiccup with Lefora itself?

Fossilmagnet,

Can you remember if  you quote the text or did you quote the pictures (linked to virus)?

. A site I have used in the past and I see is still active, will check to see what ports you have open and perhaps vulnerable to attack. Shields UP!

-mattb4

I have disabled all of my "remote access" services.

Thanks for the link to the site:

I gave it a whirl.

I do run windows ...  lol     But I am still very,very tempted by linux

"Hey Teal'c, what's with the hair?"

-coloneljack

The finest SCFI character ever to grace our screens!  lol

Not in regards to the Spam attack, but long time ago, with one of the Lefora upgrades, some of the private Forums had been changed to public by mistake. Not sure if something similar may have happened to you that does not involve your Forum being Hacked.
As for the virus scan, recently the New York Times and other prominent websites was hit with a phony advertisement the purports to be a virus scan that says your computer was hosting a worm/virus. This was done to get unaware people to click on it and d/l a real virus. I am not sure if Windows has improved but it did have enough vulnerabilities that you could be compromised with out any action on your part. IE was/is a really insecure Browser and most computer professionals use others that are standard compliant.

-mattb4

Hi mattb4

I am very aware of fake antivirus pop ups, I have schooled a number of people (older relations mainly) in how to spot the difference! LOL  no mean feat!!

I don't use IE ( strictly firefox - sometimes Chrome if the FF beta isnt working  lol)

I am 99% sure I did not click on a link or a picture on the particular thread , this concerns me.
 I have never experienced an attack when I have not been active in letting myself get attacked!!

I'm even beginning to doubt myself.  The only thing I can think of, is that I quoted the spammer to give him some abuse (I know, I know......  ignore them!!)

If you quote a message which contains a link to a virus are you in effect opening the link in some way??

This is the only thing that makes sense, as a direct attack through lefora  to my pc seems highly unlikely!?

Thanks for the responses guys :D

Great site by the way  :D

I would like to know why and how my anti virus alerted me to the worms when I did not click a link.?

Any ideas?