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Old Feb 22, 2010 | 08:55 PM
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Default Attn. Forum Admins: Your server may have been hacked

I received a PM from a user, claiming to be an admin, yet has a 0 post total.

this is the message I received from user AdminZzz


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Dear, Hardline!

A virus alert was noticed on your computer.
We highly recommend you to check your computer and perform online virus check at our site immediately: http://securitytool2010.com/Hardline
If you do not pass this test* we will have to delete your account and forward a complaint to your ISP with attached log file (your IP address, etc.).
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Forum Administration fordforum.com.
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SecurityTool2010 is known malware, and seeing that I have not been on this forum in months leads me to believe that your server may have been hacked and someone is using the member list to falsify warning messages in the attempt to infect computers with malware. Just to test, I followed the link in a Virtual Machine with a fresh install of Windows XP on it. It claimed I had 300+ viruses on the system, and even funnier, claimed I had 2 hard disks, when I only specified 1 in the virtual machine. Please, if anyone else on the forum received such a PM, ignore it.
 
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