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[Mr. Gabriel]

Hi everyone, the Trojans and Viruses are a bit more difficult then originally planned. The goal is to work around everything without effecting the entire database, so no data will be lost. There is just a lot of problems that the hackers created, its very difficult stuff and in all honesty, there are a lot of communication problems occurring with the situation.

Its been a very very long wait in my opinion but there's nothing we can do until everything is fixed.

Thanks
- Gabriel

[claudiamom]

Do you have a time frame for these changes? Just wondering....I have a referral that has been working on this site for quite a while and wants to wait til everything is fixed so she can finish the site, but I dont want to wait if it's going to be weeks before the site is back up again.

[Mr. Gabriel]

We're all very close to a solution now, it'll been soon I hope

I don't want to give a timeframe I'm not comfortable with but I want to say about 2 days, hopefully then the issue will be eliminated

Also, everyone, make sure NOT to visit the site in the downtime. There are security issues at the moment and a person or two have reported virus alerts etc. So stay away until I give the go ahead ;)

Thanks
- Gabriel

[kar708]

This stinks, I got a newbie today that took 2 prize fast sites. Any clue when this might be fixed before I lose my newbie?

[Stefanomen]

It's very crazy to see that some people have enough free time to think about this type of bad actions...

I'm very confident that you and you team will come up with a better protected site and the same amazing service!

This is what winners do... they learn from their experiences and become better!

Thanks and I'll be waiting for the re-opening.

[Victoria35]

Unfortunately, your sites are not safe. Not only my computer was attacked by Trojan virus, my debit card info was stolen and used -- I got 3 fraudulent charges of $268 total in my bank account. Your sites are still infected by Trojan. I wouldn't send any referrals to them because it's dangerous.

[Mr. Gabriel]

"my debit card info was stolen and used "

Be very careful about posting something like this, because it's not true. There is no credit card information stored on PrizeFast or any other freebie sites.

As said before, please don't visit Prizefast at the current time due to the current problem. But having credit cards stolen, that's won't happen.

[Administrator]

Originally Posted by Mr. Gabriel

"my debit card info was stolen and used "

Be very careful about posting something like this, because it's not true. There is no credit card information stored on PrizeFast or any other freebie sites.

As said before, please don't visit Prizefast at the current time due to the current problem. But having credit cards stolen, that's won't happen.

What the user probably meant to say was the trojan installed from your site was acting as a keylogger and stole the information and other precious login credentials and sent them off to the person that initially contaminated your site. We installed the virus your site has on a testing environment and it does everything from keylogging to installing annoying adware. Keeping a site open regardless of the reason (even if it is to fix the problem) while you have a known threat that can be spread to users is a crime so you may want to look into just shutting the site down completely or making it completely inaccessible.

[Chicago]

Doesn't the site have an option to switch to maintenance mode or something similar that would keep users from being able to load the standard pages?

[FreebieFinder]

Is Prizefast safe now?