[Coco] [Color Computer] CoCo3.com Forums Hacked Again

[Robert Gault]

Mannequin* wrote:
> Ken Carlin wrote:
> 
>>It appears to be even possibly worse than just hacked.  I went to the
>>forum page and it appears that whoever hacked the site has also tried to
>>implement a Windows exploit virus.  I was on an older machine that didn't
>>have all the recent patches implemented, and when I went to the forum page
>>my antivirus program (AVG) caught something going on in the IE cache and
>>shut down IE completely.
> 
> 
> OOPS! Thanks for reminding me about that. I just never think about that 
> because I run Linux.
> 
> Yes. Please don't tread near the page. As Ken stated, there is a bit of 
> a problem with some trojans running around. Roger is on top of that 
> problem, but I don't know if he knows about the page being hacked even 
> further. I saw that one happen right before my eyes around 9:00 - 9:30a 
> GMT. I have emailed him about it, so I'm guessing after work is when 
> he's going to be movin' in on our hacker...
> 
> -M.

Now I know why I saw nothing. I use Mozilla so this hack does not 
trigger any warnings on my system. The locations for the files that 
trigger the anti-virus programs seemed to point to I.E. and not generic 
browsers.