Comments on: My fragready server has been taken offline because of a ‘virus’.

By: neozeed

neozeed — Fri, 25 Apr 2014 09:18:04 +0000

In reply to superpete. they had me email them the details, but I never got a reply... very strange. this seems to be a bad month for me with online services.

By: superpete

superpete — Fri, 25 Apr 2014 09:14:06 +0000

In reply to neozeed. I remember having to do the same thing, though I don't recall whether I did it via email or a ticket.

By: neozeed

neozeed — Thu, 24 Apr 2014 08:27:24 +0000

In reply to Peter Godwin.

I liked kimsufi.com’s pricing tiers so I was going to go with them. The problem is that they want to “verify” your identity…. SO like a fool I emailed them my id card & and a bill to show it was me.

I never got a reply.

Such a shame, they did look pretty tempting.

By: neozeed

neozeed — Tue, 22 Apr 2014 11:03:41 +0000

In reply to Aeneas.

The owner knows, but they don’t seem to care. Their helpdesk just came up today, although they aren’t seeming to care much about tickets from users…

I’ll probably go with another provider… Either Asia or Europe but closer to home. I hate that up until now they were pretty good, and provided a great service… But now they just don’t care.

Once I figure out where/how this will all end up, I’ll be bringing all my stuff back online.

However if you want oldlinux stuff, I just rsync’d a copy from http://oldlinux.org/, so you can score a copy of whatever you need/want from there…

By: Aeneas

Aeneas — Tue, 22 Apr 2014 10:54:36 +0000

I very much enjoy your site, and I must say:

In my understanding, your server HAS NOT been compromised.

That means in my opinion that the the rules of handling compromised servers are INAPPLICABLE. Where you go from here I leave to you, but now you might as well contemplate informing their supervisors (some state authority, if any available, or at least “their boss”) of their “nice” behavior.

As a side-note, any chance to get oldlinux up again? 🙂

By: Tux

Tux — Sun, 20 Apr 2014 23:40:29 +0000

In reply to neozeed. Would vouch for OVH. Also, fragnet actually really sucks greatly. My 2c.

By: neozeed

neozeed — Sat, 19 Apr 2014 02:27:24 +0000

In reply to Em Adespoton.

I think the worst thing for is that I was never given clear indications of what set them off, or then that four days later and they won’t respond to me at all.

I know my $600 a year wasn’t big $$ to them, but wow. I can’t be the only customer left in annoyance on how they are avoiding people, and arbitrarily shutting down service. Even my open minecraft server got nuked. And I did enjoy that I could easily give it 4GB of ram over there.. .

By: Em Adespoton

Em Adespoton — Sat, 19 Apr 2014 01:05:15 +0000

Trend Housecall uses customer reputation, and shouldn’t be depended on for stuff like this. Symantec detects it as something to be cautious of, not as malicious. Those other guys seem to have seen the other detections and gone OMG–VIRUS!!! — nobody worth their salt depends on results from those other vendors alone.

This makes me think that anyone could contact your ISP and say “My custom Badware scanner says .htaccess is malicious — take them all offline ASAP!” and they’d do it….

By: neozeed

neozeed — Thu, 17 Apr 2014 00:56:34 +0000

LOL WHAT???? You can lose all your data because you have the nerve to keep a copy of vncviewer easily accessible???

HOLY CRAP, this is beyond retarded.

Worse people “trust” these morons.

By: slipstream

slipstream — Wed, 16 Apr 2014 21:48:14 +0000

blame symantec and trend and whoever the fuck ‘bkav’ are:

https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/7f3cb0113d4d2f2ee98c3eb45fa5b01d93e7ed439d44e5b33579e273888d38f1/analysis/

also Antiy who detects a vncviewer.

https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/a2e57a71b679cccaad92030a6f06b9f3a6f1f5e89737b7ec48e916af9b601d6f/analysis/