How can we tell if our sites are infected. Will it set off antivirus programs? J. Asche On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 7:30 PM, Sherri <[email protected]> wrote: > ********************* 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 > > > > > > ------------------------------- > 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 >