No more patch requests

[Eli13]

Well, bad news. The site I use to compile (and partly create) the patches I make, has been hacked and has been rendered useless.

I'm not going to post a link in fear of spreading any viruses (if any) to the site but here is what it looks like at the moment.

So, I really cannot make any patches right now. Unless somehow a package of Photoshop makes a sub-orbital stop into my mailbox, I don't think I can do anything of any good quality until this lifts. If it does.

My sincerest apologies to everyone waiting on a patch from me. (PhantomCruiser, Scruce, Nazban, OFSS III) If I can make it up to you somehow, just let me know.

When and if this is ever undone, I will make up for it in the fastest speed possible with optimal quality.

And yes, I have changed my signature.

Thanks and cheers,
-Eli

 

[DanM]

That's really too bad. Your patches were probably your best contribution to the community.

 

[PhantomCruiser]

No worries dude! Patches can wait, like DanM said, your patches are very, very good. I've knocked a graphic together that can do for the meantime, so I'm in no rush.
Your computer didn't suffer any ill effects from the virus did it?

 

[fireballs619]

Why not use a different program, such as GIMP or Paint.net?

 

[Scav]

You've changed all of your passwords, right?

 

[Eli13]

You've changed all of your passwords, right?

Yes, of course. I change them often anyways. From what I can gather, this guy hacks more for fun than actual info.

@Fireballs619, I can try, but it would be sub-par. At any rate, it would still take some time to gain the skill I would want to have to publish a patch using them. Oh, I have GIMP, but it doesn't necessarily agree with my way of thinking. Thanks though.

*EDIT: @PhantomCruiser no, I believe it was a DoS attack on the site, but I wasn't going to take chances on any viruses being spread to anyone on the forum.



[hint: something tells me some improbable things listed in the original post may be possible...]

 

[Scav]

From what I can gather, this guy hacks more for fun than actual info.

That's where I equate people like that with monkeys who like to throw poo.

 

[Eli13]

That's where I equate people like that with monkeys who like to throw poo.

Seconded. I had some more... choice words for him, but then again, that's below my intelligence and my normal standards.

 

[Scav]

Right on. :thumbup:

 

[RisingFury]

*EDIT: @PhantomCruiser no, I believe it was a DoS attack on the site, but I wasn't going to take chances on any viruses being spread to anyone on the forum.

DoS attack? From what I know of DoS attacks, this doesn't sound likely. My best bet would be that the server's FTP password hadn't been changed in years, or that the FTP server has a default account with a simple login like [email protected], with password set as "password" or "admin" or something easy to guess.

After that, he just wiped everything from the server and installed his own website.

Given his style - "Nya nya nya nya I hacked your website" - he was probably doing it just to show off. Any attacked that's after data usually doesn't bring the website down, but leaves it operational. The webmaster has no idea that the website got attacked. In the mean time, more customers leave their information on the website that the attacker gets access to.

 

[Eli13]

Sorry, not exactly the hacking expert here. Just a guess. He's done DoS stuff before. It would make sense for it to happen again.

 

[Mantis]

They ought to bring in a law allowing immediate summary execution of hackers, virus writers and spammers. It would make the world a much better place.

 

[Scav]

...if they can catch them.

Any decent hacker will use no less than eight other IP addresses in a series to work from in order to do any one thing.

 

[Cosmic Penguin]

Hmmm.... that's the same bunch of hackers that hacked Anatoly Zak's Russian Space Web yesterday.....

Maybe those hackers are believers of the Apollo Moon Hoax.... :rofl:

 

[Eli13]

It is?
Maybe it will be resolved soon. Keep your fingers crossed people.

 

[Zachstar]

I would recommend learning gimp or paint.net. Both are used by professional's these days and are extremely powerful (I highly doubt Photoshop has anything that you can make use of without years of experience that gimp dosent have in one way or another)

Most of these online photo editing sites are just that. For touching up photos or adding a little pizazz not actually creating anything.

 

[Turbinator]

Photoshop Express:
http://www.photoshop.com/tools/overview

Slashup:
http://www.splashup.com/

30 day free Photoshop CS5 Extended:
http://www.adobe.com/go/tryphotoshopextended

 

[Artlav]

From what I can gather, this guy hacks more for fun than actual info.

Why can't he go to the competitions then?
Real prizes, safe fame, nice line in resume, etc.

What he done instead is equivalent to painting F-word high on a side of a building - just break the simple lock, climb out and try not to fall. You can't even boast with something like that.

 

[Eli13]

And the site is now back up. Well, thanks for bearing with me for those few hours. Should be back on track with everything now.

Thanks guys,
-Eli

 

[PennyBlack]

They ought to bring in a law allowing immediate summary execution of hackers, virus writers and spammers. It would make the world a much better place.

I like the way you think. :thumbup:

In the words of Kenny Everett... "We should round them all up, put them in a field and bomb the