Rougue er all

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The main reason is that many, many years ago the fight over MorphOS vs AmigaOS and AmigaOne vs Pegasos was faught out here. The vocal battle went very high after which AmigaWorld.net was created and a seperate site for MorphOS.
Then the Amiga community split.

If this is true, can it be undone??

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@DiskDoctor

ANN.lu V2.0? I miss that one. Big problem however for any news feed today is the lack of news.

Plaz

I loved ann.lu

I think CK closed it down because of the amount of crap that was being posted, as much as anything else.

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Probably due to the more technical nature of this site, they would have to post more indepth posts... A quick look at the last posts by them on AmigaWorld show little to interest the average user of this site.

True.

Check out this page about the "Secret project of Hyperion"
http://amigaworld.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=29177&forum=2

It is pure vague speculative nonsence.

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The website is infected with pharming attacks: As soon as you browse the site the malicious code will attempt to take over your system by using multitudes of different methods, including infected swf and pdf documents abusing vulnerabilities in Flash player and Adobe Acrobat.

The malicious files are hosted in chinese (.cn) domains.

It is quite likely that amigann is innocent victim here aswell, and the site has been hacked. I'll investigate further soon. Meanwhile, I am urging caution when browsing the site. Even better, avoid the site altogether.

update1:

As far as I can tell the malware comes from malicious google ads. Suspicious URLs look like:

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http://****mail.org/licky/etChunksFrom.swf
http://****anag.cn/rf/fromFactLooks.swf
http://****ci.cn/redirect/include/spl.php?stat=Linux|Mozilla%205.0|FI|Mozilla


I wondered why my acrobat reader was going mental!!