11/24/2005: "ADMIN: Heliopolis Hacked"

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. Yesterday was not so fun around here. My husband lost his job, and then I came home to find that Heliopolis had been hacked. There was a trojan on the site and large amounts of files had been overwritten. I was able to fix most of the problems with the site, but any stories that were uploaded between 10 Nov 05 and 23 Nov 05, had to be deleted, because I didn't have back-ups of them, and all of the story files had been truncated.

None of the pop-ups, links to other sites, etc were meant to be on this site, this includes the warez link that showed up in the news section. Whoever hacked this site, changed everything, and it took me hours to find all of the files that were affected. I am still working on uploading the corrected files to the main archive.

I advise everyone who has visited this site this week (since Sunday, 20 Nov 05) to run a virus scan on your computer, on the chance that you may have downloaded this trojan. I wouldn't want anyone to be affected by this.

For this holiday, I wanted to let everyone know that despite the roller coaster my life has seemed to been on since August, I am quite thankful for many things in my life, not the least of which are all of you who have kept me in your thoughts and prayers and those who have offerred their support. More than once, the fans of this site have made my day brighter. My husband and I wish all of you a wonderful Thanksgiving, whether you are in America or overseas, and let you know that despite the problems with this site, we will be here for all of you for as long as you remain fans.

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