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#1103335 - 09/05/2012 08:37 Font changes - Why?
SBT Meteorological Motor Mouth Registered: 07/02/2007 Posts: 12878 Loc: Townsville Dry Tropics	What is up with the font size and bolding changes? Have you been hacked? _________________________ lexDyscis luRe!! Scientific knowledge is always tentative and subject to revision. The entire history of science is littered with discarded theories once thought to be incontrovertible truths. Prof David Deming
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#1103338 - 09/05/2012 08:46 Re: Font changes - Why? [Re: SBT]
TheAnt Weatherzone Addict Registered: 16/11/2011 Posts: 1360 Loc: Caulfield, Melbourne (SE Burbs...	Seems like its something to do with 'wedding bells' forum. Very strange.
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#1103341 - 09/05/2012 09:05 Re: Font changes - Why? [Re: TheAnt]
SBT Meteorological Motor Mouth Registered: 07/02/2007 Posts: 12878 Loc: Townsville Dry Tropics	Just PMed BNE. Hopefully he can alert an admin to look into it. I am using both Firefox and Internet Explorer 9 so it isn't a single browser problem. Ran Avast Anti Virus as well as Spybot - nothing found yet. Curiouser and curiouser said Alice. _________________________ lexDyscis luRe!! Scientific knowledge is always tentative and subject to revision. The entire history of science is littered with discarded theories once thought to be incontrovertible truths. Prof David Deming
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#1103342 - 09/05/2012 09:05 Re: Font changes - Why? [Re: TheAnt]
ROM Meteorological Motor Mouth Registered: 29/01/2007 Posts: 6626	Font change? Yuk!
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#1103345 - 09/05/2012 09:13 Re: Font changes - Why? [Re: ROM]
Raindammit Weatherzone Moderator Registered: 14/02/2002 Posts: 10793 Loc: Townsville & Bilyana NQ	I've alerted admin. No news so far. _________________________ Belgian Gardens 2013 YTD - 595.0mm March - 70.0mm (Avg 66.8mm) Bilyana 2013 YTD - 1465mm April - 148mm (Avg 215.3mm) Bilyana Current Weather
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#1103346 - 09/05/2012 09:15 Re: Font changes - Why? [Re: ROM]
SBT Meteorological Motor Mouth Registered: 07/02/2007 Posts: 12878 Loc: Townsville Dry Tropics	Yes it is and the side bar ads are no longer working either, probably related. So every cloud has a silver lining. Lol. Satellite Images is working. So it is a problem with the forum software and not at the our end. Just confirmed that I haven't picked anything up from WZ by running Malwarebytes as well as Spybot. Edited by Sir BoabTree (09/05/2012 09:16) _________________________ lexDyscis luRe!! Scientific knowledge is always tentative and subject to revision. The entire history of science is littered with discarded theories once thought to be incontrovertible truths. Prof David Deming
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#1103348 - 09/05/2012 09:55 Re: Font changes - Why? [Re: SBT]
TheAnt Weatherzone Addict Registered: 16/11/2011 Posts: 1360 Loc: Caulfield, Melbourne (SE Burbs...	Its been fixed, good.
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#1103351 - 09/05/2012 10:07 Re: Font changes - Why? [Re: TheAnt]
Bello Boy Occasional Visitor Registered: 23/09/2001 Posts: 4702 Loc: Bellingen NSW	All fixed - as soon as I heard from SBT (and from logging on myself) I spoke to Admin who were going to immediately look into it. Sure they will either post themselves as to what happened or let me know and I'll post it up here. All the best Kev _________________________ www.bellingenweather.org
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#1103358 - 09/05/2012 10:37 Re: Font changes - Why? [Re: Bello Boy]
Raindammit Weatherzone Moderator Registered: 14/02/2002 Posts: 10793 Loc: Townsville & Bilyana NQ	Matthew advised there was a pretty major issue this morning, I'll let him advise as to what happened in more detail. _________________________ Belgian Gardens 2013 YTD - 595.0mm March - 70.0mm (Avg 66.8mm) Bilyana 2013 YTD - 1465mm April - 148mm (Avg 215.3mm) Bilyana Current Weather
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#1103363 - 09/05/2012 10:47 Re: Font changes - Why? [Re: Raindammit]
TheAnt Weatherzone Addict Registered: 16/11/2011 Posts: 1360 Loc: Caulfield, Melbourne (SE Burbs...	I fixed the virus problem with adblock, so I do wonder what happened with the font, aslong as its all good im fine.
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#1103365 - 09/05/2012 11:08 Re: Font changes - Why? [Re: Raindammit]
Andrew Miskelly Weatherzone Webmaster Registered: 15/11/2001 Posts: 3083 Loc: Goulburn, NSW	There is a problem with the forum software which apparently allowed a link to an external script to be inserted into the page. A side effect of this was that the page's HTML became a bit messed up which is why the appearance of the forum changed slightly. This was addressed earlier and we're in the process of applying the patch that has been made available by UBB. I'm not sure what the script was. Anyone who viewed the forum this morning and noticed the different appearance would have been exposed but I expect a current browser and reasonably up to date virus software would have prevented anything untoward.
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#1103372 - 09/05/2012 11:37 Re: Font changes - Why? [Re: Andrew Miskelly]
TheAnt Weatherzone Addict Registered: 16/11/2011 Posts: 1360 Loc: Caulfield, Melbourne (SE Burbs...	Yeah AVG continually 'blocked' the threat.
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#1103387 - 09/05/2012 12:51 Re: Font changes - Why? [Re: TheAnt]
Blizzard Meteorological Motor Mouth Registered: 31/03/2001 Posts: 10173 Loc: Blue Mountains	Or browse via Linux and you'll be apples. _________________________ BoM Storm Spotter, snow chaser, webmaster for www.blackheathweather.com Local weather news on Twitter: BlackheathWx
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#1103419 - 09/05/2012 16:04 Re: Font changes - Why? [Re: Blizzard]
SBT Meteorological Motor Mouth Registered: 07/02/2007 Posts: 12878 Loc: Townsville Dry Tropics	It was a hack of the forum, nothing to do with what browser people used. _________________________ lexDyscis luRe!! Scientific knowledge is always tentative and subject to revision. The entire history of science is littered with discarded theories once thought to be incontrovertible truths. Prof David Deming
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#1103616 - 10/05/2012 19:44 Re: Font changes - Why? [Re: SBT]
Scottie A Weatherzone Addict Registered: 23/09/2009 Posts: 2043 Loc: Spring Mountain, Brisbane	If the script was trying to download/execute a trojan etc than it would be harmful to your operating system. This is why Weatherzone forum has now been moved to my linux firefox browser for untrusted sites, web browsing. Edited by Scottie A (10/05/2012 19:45) _________________________ Scott Anderson EWN Facebook Page/s EWN Discussion My YT http://www.youtube.com/user/MrScottieA
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#1103687 - 11/05/2012 10:14 Re: Font changes - Why? [Re: Scottie A]
Raindammit Weatherzone Moderator Registered: 14/02/2002 Posts: 10793 Loc: Townsville & Bilyana NQ	There are some things being trialled in regards to the forum, watch this space... _________________________ Belgian Gardens 2013 YTD - 595.0mm March - 70.0mm (Avg 66.8mm) Bilyana 2013 YTD - 1465mm April - 148mm (Avg 215.3mm) Bilyana Current Weather
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