Marcus Conway - ebirder
Well-known member
Hi Ash, thanks for taking the time to respond and put your head above the parapet on a public forum.
Clearly you are not entirely responsible for third party attacks on your widgets and well done you for getting things sorted so quickly. However, the most disconcerting thing is that we only found out when contacted through our website and then via Birdforum we got the details. Others found out because malicious attempts were made to get money out of bank accounts or when their computers died. Given that you knew about this for a while it would have been helpful to have an email in the same way you contact us when there is an update to the ticker widget.
If just one of the visitors to our website had been affected by the trojan we would have gone to great lengths to follow up and apologise and try and sort things out.
Hopefully it's gone for good and fatbirder can get back to being a good resource for birders.
Cheers, Marcus
Clearly you are not entirely responsible for third party attacks on your widgets and well done you for getting things sorted so quickly. However, the most disconcerting thing is that we only found out when contacted through our website and then via Birdforum we got the details. Others found out because malicious attempts were made to get money out of bank accounts or when their computers died. Given that you knew about this for a while it would have been helpful to have an email in the same way you contact us when there is an update to the ticker widget.
If just one of the visitors to our website had been affected by the trojan we would have gone to great lengths to follow up and apologise and try and sort things out.
Hopefully it's gone for good and fatbirder can get back to being a good resource for birders.
Cheers, Marcus
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