What is happening with 'Piccolo Systems'
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Hello What going on with the site http://piccolosystems.com. Google Chrome flags it as unsafe and infested with malicious softwares. Hope it will be back online soon. Regards |
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If you ignore the warning (Firefox) and go to the website, it says it is down for maintenance. |
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Ben is aware of the problems, but as yet has been unable to find the (considerable) time to fix the effects of malicious external interference with the site. Hence the site is currently ‘down for maintenance’. |
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At the end of March he tells me: “… my website seems to have been hacked, and it is taking me |
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That happened to me about eight years ago. After some analysis with a friend, it was decided that the best option was to “nuke it from orbit, it’s the only way to be sure”, and so the entire site was wiped and then slowly replaced bit by bit – for these were the days when my internet access was a half hour a week at a local library. Now? Now I take periodic backups to a USB harddisc so I can wipe and restart, should such a measure be necessary. https://www.heyrick.co.uk/blog/index.php?diary=20090628 On a more serious note – was any banking information compromised? |
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Hi. I would like to purchase !systemdisc. Could someone send me Ben’s contact details please? Thanks, |
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I’ve used info@ his domain in the past! |
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That will work get the site back on line … but presumably restores the same loophole which will allow it to be hacked again? Stopping a repetition can take a lot more time than the restore. |
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Thank you Chris. I’ll give that a try. |
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As an interim measure Elesar has agreed to host CloneDisc and SystemDisc in our store as well, so it can be ordered online again (or via email to Elesar Sales). Since this thread started Piccolo Systems have become VAT registered, so customers outside the EU or those outside the UK with a valid VAT number can buy the software 0% rated. For existing customers of these two apps there’s also now a handy PDF in the resources section with the instructions that were previously on the (still down) Piccolo site. |