We're back and we're here to stay!!!!!!!!

[JJ Irani]

Originally Posted by mfer

Soooo... TRF was down????


Thanks Scott!

[campanones]

newbie but missed the place

[DadsWatch72]

Because the forum was down, I was forced to drink heavily. Thankfully its back up and I can recover.

[presario]

Great to have the forum back up and running, Steve! Awesome job, Scott!!!

For those that are trying to bring harm to this wonderful community, get a life. Seriously.

[BarkMaster]

Almost sold my watch...

Glad everything is ironed out now. Great job!

[Some Pair]

....what everyone said, along to everyone who's helping hand was involved!

Also for the Great Advice to alot of us on making various pc & firewall, etc. upgrades!

Was feeling like without TRF!
But now I feel like....

[SDDS]

really missed TRF during these past days..

[harvey]

thanks back up and running as normal now!

[Mauiguy]

JJ,

I know that you know it was the tossers. TOSSERS brought the system down!!!!

Aloha!

// Gary

Originally Posted by JJ Irani

Thanks for all the good work, Steve and Scott......it feels wonderful to be back.

Just got home from work to find TRF all fired up.......with the usual references to me.

I hope no one's blaming this one on me??!!

Cheers and hope the bad boys who did this rot in hell and wear RADOs on NATOs for eternity!!!

[Rags]

To everyone involved who helped bring TRF back online a big THANK YOU!!!

[poppyoua12]

Great to have the forum back did not realize how addicted I was to this site tell it was gone.Hope it never happens again.

[theloxmyth]

Originally Posted by poppyoua12

Great to have the forum back did not realize how addicted I was to this site tell it was gone.Hope it never happens again.

Yes, and there is NO 12 Step program for Rolex-a-holics!

[BarkMaster]

Originally Posted by theloxmyth

Yes, and there is NO 12 Step program for Rolex-a-holics!

Sure there is!

At least you are not in denial. 1 down...

[watchjunkie]

I've been going nuts since the forum site has been down.
It's feels great to be connected again!

John

[dlite1873]

Good that the forum is back up and running.

[theloxmyth]

Originally Posted by 777

Sure there is!

At least you are not in denial. 1 down...

[ingoodtime]

It is really important that our membership have total control over their computers. Everyone should be running a current anti virus-anti spyware suite and making sure it is updated at least weekly. Many people never check to be sure their subscription (if necessary) is current and they never check the dates of the anti virus definitions. This is important as a virus can block the installation of the newest anti virus definitions even though it appears your computer is downloading them.
There are many good free firewalls and antivirus/anti spyware programs. Aside from running those and windows defender, I also run CCleaner, a free utility that cleans out cookies and keeps your registry in good shape and well as the free edition of malwarebytes. Spywareblaster is another good free tool that helps block websites known to add spyware to systems.

When searching the internet for these free tools, be sure that you land on the correct page. Many websites will pop up offering a similar product that you must pay for. Additionally, many websites offering these free downloads will also have a link for a pay for product. Always take the time to read before clicking install and , don't install un-necessary toolbars. They just slow down windows.You rpgrams can be accessed via the taskbar or the start, all programs menu. You don't need the toolbars to access them.

If you do hit a website that tries to insall anything or won't let you release internet explorer, you can do two things.

1) hit cntrl-alt-delete and use task manager to end the process or program that is attempting to take over your system.

2) the faster wathing to do is just to power off your system and then reboot it. I would suggest running your full array of maintenance software after an experience like this. If you have questions, please feel free to PM me and I will do my best to help windows users.

[theloxmyth]

Originally Posted by ingoodtime

It is really important that our membership have total control over their computers. Everyone should be running a current anti virus-anti spyware suite and making sure it is updated at least weekly. Many people never check to be sure their subscription (if necessary) is current and they never check the dates of the anti virus definitions. This is important as a virus can block the installation of the newest anti virus definitions even though it appears your computer is downloading them.
There are many good free firewalls and antivirus/anti spyware programs. Aside from running those and windows defender, I also run CCleaner, a free utility that cleans out cookies and keeps your registry in good shape and well as the free edition of malwarebytes. Spywareblaster is another good tool that helpd block websites known to add spyware to systems.

When searching the internet for these free tools, be sure that you land on the correct page. Many websites will pop up offering a similar product that you must pay for. Additionally, many websites offering these free downloads will also have a link for a pay for product. Always take the time to read before clicking install and , don't install un-necessary toolbars. They just slow down windows.You rpgrams can be accessed via the taskbar or the start, all programs menu. You don't need the toolbars to access them.

If you do hit a website that tries to insall anything or won't let you release internet explorer, you can do two things.

1) hit cntrl-alt-delete and use task manager to end the process or program that is attempting to take over your system.

2) the faster wathing to do is just to power off your system and then reboot it. I would suggest running your full array of maintenance software after an experience like this. If you have questions, please feel free to PM me and I will do my best to help windows users.

Thanks for the advice, Lee!

AdAware came recommended, also, and Windows7 (Ultimate) seems to be the cats meow!

[acce1999]

Thanks for the info.

I've been working a lot lately, but noticed in the short breaks I've had that I could not enjoy my usual reading at the forum. Actually I just got some error message here about me having restricted usage, but that might have something with the post I tried to read.

Anyway. Full anti-virus protection in my end (for many reasons), but I use a large internet providor so perhaps I am blocked out due to that from time to time.

I am not a big poster here, but I enjoy the forum very much and if I can help I'd like to do that in any way that is possible for me. I appreciate all the efforts done by all you guys running the site!

Best,

A

[weizhen77]

On the positive side, with these kind of "attacks" did add more "lives" to this forum.

Ooops... am I now on the suspect list?

[Rolodex5551212]

PC user at home and work, neither had people problem.
However, I had to go to rehab for TRFitis.

[ingoodtime]

Originally Posted by Lol-x

I apologise for the inconvenience causes by the infliction of serious criminal activity upon the forum.

Those responsible for blocking the forum will be subject to Federal Prosecution.

Scott has brilliantly spent a lot of time in seeking to resolve this problem.

Further there have been significant resources deployed over the last few days on the server side in both human and monetary terms to fight the criminals that have sought to bring the forum down.

This is an ongoing battle and it will require significant resources to battle this problem.

We may create a privileged usergroup for those who will get preferred IP treatment.

If you can't get onto the forum it is likely that you have a compromised computer, or that a compromised computer is sharing your IP address. If that is the case you will need to undertake tasks and pay an administration fee.

Mac users do not have any compromised machines that became zombies. Mac rules

Finally a big thank you to Scott - the server administrator.

More details to be announced..........

Preferred group as in pledge members??

[point5]

just out of curiosity, what was the nature of the DOS attack? Was it a simple syn flood from a botnet or something more particular to a forum based website?

[RoLade]

Mac user here! Thanks guys for getting us back online!

[kingblackbolt]

Glad to have our home away from home back and running Steve... thanks for everything!