Additional Information: This hacker attack is not confined to USGenWeb sites, nor to IXWebhosting, where the National site and theusgenweb.org domains are hosted. Nor does it affect all sites hosted at IXWebhosting. It's on at least two other hosting services that I found, just taking a quick peek. Sherri Bradley National Coordinator USGenWeb Project Information about the USGenWeb Project at http://usgenweb.org Advisory Board Agenda http://usgenweb.org/agenda2.php -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sherri Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2009 7:30 PM To: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: [BOARD] Hacker Attack (Again) Importance: High ********************* Please forward to all Project Lists ********************************** The National USGenWeb Project site and all sites hosted on theusgenweb.org domain, as well as a few other Project sites have been hit again by a hacker that has included some malware code at the end of the majority of the pages on each site. We are working with the hosting service right now to get the sites cleaned and the code removed. Please ask ALL Project Coordinators that have their sites hosted on theusgenweb.org or anyone that specifically gets notices that they're sites are infected to not connect by ftp to the sites until at least the 16th as we work to try to ensure that we have the sites cleaned once again. For folks that have only visited the USGenWeb National site or any of the other affected sites using their browser, the risk is very minor that your computer has been infected. If you've connected by ftp and downloaded files from any of the infected sites, I'd suggest running a full virus scan on your computer and I'd also recommend running at least a couple of spyware scans to add an additional level of confidence that your system is clean. All sites that are hosted on theusgenweb.org server will have the passwords changed before you can log in again. I'll be starting on this immediately so that the downtime will be minimized as much as possible. If anyone has any specific questions or problems, please let me know. Sherri Bradley National Coordinator USGenWeb Project Information about the USGenWeb Project at http://usgenweb.org Advisory Board Agenda http://usgenweb.org/agenda2.php USGenWeb Advisory Board Agenda: http://usgenweb.org/agenda2.shtml ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Are the other two hosting services also hosting USGW sites? Or is it not genealogy site related? I find the security at IX leaving much to be desired and not sure why we moved to this server. The move required a reload of at least one state and it's counties and unfortunately there were errors in the reload almost like it was taken from an earlier copy of all the files. It was not up to date. The move, the reload and now two hackings have taken place in the last 2 months. I don't know why we would want to stay with a company with this type of performance. I also think they owe us some satisfaction. I would like additional and more timely information this time around please. Karen De Groote-Johnson MTGenWeb SC -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sherri Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2009 6:58 PM To: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Re: [ABChat] [BOARD] Hacker Attack (Again) Additional Information: This hacker attack is not confined to USGenWeb sites, nor to IXWebhosting, where the National site and theusgenweb.org domains are hosted. Nor does it affect all sites hosted at IXWebhosting. It's on at least two other hosting services that I found, just taking a quick peek. Sherri Bradley National Coordinator USGenWeb Project Information about the USGenWeb Project at http://usgenweb.org Advisory Board Agenda http://usgenweb.org/agenda2.php -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sherri Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2009 7:30 PM To: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: [BOARD] Hacker Attack (Again) Importance: High ********************* Please forward to all Project Lists ********************************** The National USGenWeb Project site and all sites hosted on theusgenweb.org domain, as well as a few other Project sites have been hit again by a hacker that has included some malware code at the end of the majority of the pages on each site. We are working with the hosting service right now to get the sites cleaned and the code removed. Please ask ALL Project Coordinators that have their sites hosted on theusgenweb.org or anyone that specifically gets notices that they're sites are infected to not connect by ftp to the sites until at least the 16th as we work to try to ensure that we have the sites cleaned once again. For folks that have only visited the USGenWeb National site or any of the other affected sites using their browser, the risk is very minor that your computer has been infected. If you've connected by ftp and downloaded files from any of the infected sites, I'd suggest running a full virus scan on your computer and I'd also recommend running at least a couple of spyware scans to add an additional level of confidence that your system is clean. All sites that are hosted on theusgenweb.org server will have the passwords changed before you can log in again. I'll be starting on this immediately so that the downtime will be minimized as much as possible. If anyone has any specific questions or problems, please let me know. Sherri Bradley National Coordinator USGenWeb Project Information about the USGenWeb Project at http://usgenweb.org Advisory Board Agenda http://usgenweb.org/agenda2.php USGenWeb Advisory Board Agenda: http://usgenweb.org/agenda2.shtml ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message