Bad news

[BrandonF]

That is just to bad. I should of payed more attention to their site while it was 'alive'. I never really visited the site that much. Now, I feel bad for them.

[jrom]

[quote]That is just to bad. I should of payed more attention to their site while it was 'alive'. I never really visited the site that much. Now, I feel bad for them.

[garymbuska]

I'm still trying to figure out how such a well established site would not have private 'non accessible' backups of the entire system as well as server backup

I can understand being taken down and even a backup server being nailed if its open to connection.. I am having difficulty understanding why in this day and age a site that big would not be protected using very standard and simplistic corporate security backup practices

..unless its an inside job and even then protected backup should only have access to high admin alone

Hello Nick
From what I know so far it was indeed a inside job some one that had root admin privileges. That person stole the email database for our forums and then proceeded to spam just about every one in it. Apparently they managed to destroy the partitions on both disks the main and the back up disk. And since we were in the middle of a web rebuild there were no other back ups except for a old version. At this time we are not sure what the extinct of the damage is and it is going to take a while to sort it out. 8-)

[Double Ought Zero]

So revolting I almost feel like vomitting.  :-[

[HarvesteR]

I just posted a message at their temp forums saying how much impressed I am at the level of comradery and support displayed by the entire community over the veritable catastrophe that has struck Avsim...

The support shown by the forum members, payware companies, and even competing websites, has encouraged Tom Allensworth to not give up on the site... who assured everyone they would be back in due time

I said it there, and I want to say it again here, and show my feelings of true admiration and humbleness before the support shown so far for Avsim... the FS community is by far the friendliest, sanest and best mannered on the net, and I just want to say I'm proud to be a part of it right now.

Cheers everyone, and see ya tomorrow

[U4EA]

I said it there, and I want to say it again here, and show my feelings of true admiration and humbleness before the support shown so far for Avsim... the FS community is by far the friendliest, sanest and best mannered on the net, and I just want to say I'm proud to be a part of it right now.

Very well stated sir!

[wreckerman]

This sort of thing is just horrible , but to a freeware community this
person is just a sick peice of work . Avsim has been a trademark in
fs history . We could all help them to restore their site by sending everything we all have ever downloaded or uploaded from avsim
back to them once they have resolved the server issue , just a thought. May be a good idea untill is is 100% confirmed that this was a inside job to limit uploading to simv or any site just incase this was a virus of some kind .

[fabiane]

That's cruel and I hope they'll be online soon again. There's a banner for your sig to support them....

[ShaneG_old]

We could all help them to restore their site by sending everything we all have ever downloaded or uploaded from avsim back to them once they have resolved the server issue , just a thought

To think for one second that their library didn't have a few backups is pretty far fetched.

[Fly2e]

Posted by: wreckerman Posted on: Today at 3:06am
.... limit uploading to simv or any site just incase this was a virus of some kind  

Each file that is uploaded to SimV is checked for any type of virus. Pete also cleans house and does maintenance constantly with the file library.... along with backing up everything  ;)

Yes this is all sad news but suggesting that we limit what we do here because of what happened at Avsim is a bit ridiculous.

[SubZer0]

[quote][quote]Posted by: wreckerman Posted on: Today at 3:06am
.... limit uploading to simv or any site just incase this was a virus of some kind

[Fly2e]

Hell... I am going to Mexico in the near future and even signed up for the "Pigfarm Excursion".  ;D

[NickN]

OK People.. Lets not lose ourselves in the Internet Boogie-Man world!

This was an INSIDE JOB

There is no way an outside hacker got into a root system and cleaned out TWO servers unless they were connected pretty hefty to some high level chit!

[Wii]

[quote]OK People.. Lets not lose ourselves in the Internet Boogie-Man world!

This was an INSIDE JOB

There is no way an outside hacker got into a root system and cleaned out TWO servers unless they were connected pretty hefty to some high level chit!

[Fly2e]

I'M THE INTERNET BOOGIE MAN AND
I'M A COMIN FOR ALL YOUR FILES BOY!