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[liamegan2000]

A belated  seasons greetings to all of you.
Happy New Year!

 

Just a quick note for anyone who might try to
access the Onedin Line section of my website.

 

Due to a hacker gaining control of my
web servers, I have l deleted all of the sites. Much of the content had
been altered so this was the safest opition.

 

There is a backup stored in the cloud so it will
return, but it will remain off-line until any issues with security are
identified and corrected.

 

Bill.

 

 

[galacticprobe]

Happy New Year to you, too, Bill! (And to everyone else as well!) I'd have replied sooner, but I was off line as well for a few days – not the computer: me! My back injury was acting up again, and I got hit with a bad vertigo episode. So, I was flat on my back (or curled up in a ball) for several days waiting for the aches and dizzies to go away. Things are better now and I'm at least back on my feet for short hops.

Sorry to hear about your site, Bill. I wish there was a way to send a massive "kill-the-computer" virus to the hacker so he would get fried (and I'd love to fry him; I abhor hackers!). Another group I belong to for an early 1970s show ('Search' in the US, 'Search Control' in the UK and I think a few other places) had their site hijacked and held for ransom a few years ago. Rather than paying the $3k USD fee to have the site released, the guy who built the site just built another site (on arthost.com) and loaded all of the things that were thankfully backed up onto the new site. So far <knocking on wood> there have been no more problems.

Hopefully you'll get things sorted out soon and we'll have smooth sailing once again!

Dino.

—–Original Message—–
From: Bill <william.whittaker1@ntlworld.com>
To: shiponedingroup <shiponedingroup@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Mon, Jan 6, 2014 8:07 am
Subject: [shiponedingroup] Site down

 

A belated  seasons greetings to all of you.
Happy New Year!

 

Just a quick note for anyone who might try to
access the Onedin Line section of my website.

 

Due to a hacker gaining control of my
web servers, I have l deleted all of the sites. Much of the content had
been altered so this was the safest opition.

 

There is a backup stored in the cloud so it will
return, but it will remain off-line until any issues with security are
identified and corrected.

 

Bill.

[liamegan2000]

Well timed!

 

I just got the OK from the nerds, everything should
be ok. So I restored the files for The Onedin Line. I have tested it  – it
seems to work – any problems anyone has please let me know.

 

The usual link http://www.sound-research.co.uk/onedin_line.htm will go
through a redirect for a while, if there is any problem then:

http://www.sound-research.co.uk/ will
find the pages. I think the backup was all up to date so everything should be
there.

 

Sorry to hear you have not been too well I hoped
managed to watch some Onedin Line to take your mind off it. Best wishes for a
full and speedy recovery.

 

Bill.

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—– Original Message —–

From:
LambuLambu@aol.com

To: shiponedingroup@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2014 5:56
PM

Subject: Re: [shiponedingroup] Site
down

Happy New Year to you, too, Bill! (And to
everyone else as well!) I'd have replied sooner, but I was off line as well
for a few days – not the computer: me! My back injury was acting up again, and
I got hit with a bad vertigo episode. So, I was flat on my back (or curled up
in a ball) for several days waiting for the aches and dizzies to go away.
Things are better now and I'm at least back on my feet for short
hops.

Sorry to hear about your site, Bill.
I wish there was a way to send a massive "kill-the-computer" virus to the
hacker so he would get fried (and I'd love to fry him; I abhor hackers!).
Another group I belong to for an early 1970s show ('Search' in the US, 'Search
Control' in the UK and I think a few other places) had their site hijacked and
held for ransom a few years ago. Rather than paying the $3k USD fee to have
the site released, the guy who built the site just built another site (on
arthost.com) and loaded all of the things that were thankfully backed up onto
the new site. So far <knocking on wood> there have been no more
problems.

Hopefully you'll get things sorted
out soon and we'll have smooth sailing once again!

Dino.

—–Original
Message—–
From: Bill <william.whittaker1@ntlworld.com>
To:
shiponedingroup <shiponedingroup@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Mon, Jan 6,
2014 8:07 am
Subject: [shiponedingroup] Site down

 

A belated  seasons greetings to all of you.
Happy New Year!

 

Just a quick note for anyone who might try to
access the Onedin Line section of my website.

 

Due to a hacker gaining control of my
web servers, I have l deleted all of the sites. Much of the content had
been altered so this was the safest opition.

 

There is a backup stored in the cloud so it will
return, but it will remain off-line until any issues with security are
identified and corrected.

 

Bill.

[liamegan2000]

More problems with the site. Seems like someone
does not like it enough to once again hack into it and alter the content in a
most childish manner.

 

So I have removed it, reset the password and intend
to leave it for a while untill the misfit moves on to something else, like
exiting puberty perhaps.

 

In the meantime if anyone wants a copy of the site
to run on their own PC away from the world of internet idiots let me know and
I'll send the key for the download  (small file only about
6MB).

 

Bill.

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