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Old 11-04-2012, 04:43 PM  
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Originally Posted by Cherry7 View Post
After wasting a week of my life cleaning up from a Malware attack I have been told;

The happen by forcing the FTP password

Then by weakness in the web design (but no explanation on what exactly.

I would have thought is would be easy to defend against multiple attempts to log in...

I was also told that the attack could come from the uploading or home computer but but anti virus and Microsoft's malware program failed to detect anything.

If it is a password problem is it true that

usealongsentenceasaspasswordinbetterthan

HgtSd55^&8

that it is the length is the stronger PW?

We had a major malware issue here recently also - but it had nothing to do with FTP. We got the Ukash virus, which seemed to mutate into various forms. It busted through both our anti-virus and firewall and literally locked the system up.

It took me three days to completely eliminate it. No permanent damage, just major annoying with the downtime.
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