WARNING TO GMC USERS

Posted by Tasm on May 4, 2006, 9:11 p.m.

I'm sorry for making a new blog for this, but I thought it was of great importance.

Do NOT visit the GMC for several days. It has been hacked, and viruses are running amock in the server. Also, if you receive an e-mail from the GMC with the subject "Administration forums.gamemaker.nl ( From Game Maker Community )," do NOT open it. It has an .exe attached to it that is most likely a virus. The .exe is linked from a totally different domain name.

OMG HAXOR'D

Thank you, and be sure to spread the word.

Comments

melee-master 18 years, 6 months ago

Heh, don't worry, I wasn't planning on visiting it. Maybe I'll visit it at school, haha.

Kenon 18 years, 6 months ago

Good Idea Melee!

melee-master 18 years, 6 months ago

Errr, then how come multiple trojans were downloaded onto my computer as soon as I entered the site?

melee-master 18 years, 6 months ago

Meh, the GMC is fine now.

Radnom_Games 18 years, 6 months ago

Hmm… Would Norton 2005 stop the Trojans? Cos I went on the GMC earlier and didn't notice anything different.

takua108 18 years, 6 months ago

Dude…I discussed this in <a href="http://64digits.com/users/index.php?userid=takua108&cmd=comments&id=2575">my blog post earlier</a>. It's nothing to worry about, unless you were dumb enough to click the e-mail link. This is pretty much old news by now.

neonut99 18 years, 6 months ago

As a virus scanner I reccomend Nod 32. Its much better. Just incase people have viruses.

Tasm 18 years, 6 months ago

Well, takua, I don't read your blogs :P

SleepinJohnnyFish 18 years, 6 months ago

heh, I love how people think that a virus got on the server and gets people when they visit. That is, for all intensive purposes, impossible. People need to learn how computers and the internet work. It's been out for years now. You'd think some people could get a hang of it.

Xemrel 18 years, 6 months ago

Quote:
Errr, then how come multiple trojans were downloaded onto my computer as soon as I entered the site?
Let me guess, you use IE.

Quote:
That is, for all intensive purposes, impossible.
Not so much. browsers, like most software, have bugs. Those bugs let people do things that SHOULD be impossible, which of course means they actually ARE possible. In some versions of IE, something as simple as a <TABLE> tag can be used to walk out into random memory. That's quite the security hole, and would indeed allow a site to attack you just because you viewed it.