±Recent Visitors

Recent Visitors to Com-Central!

±User Info-big


Welcome Anonymous

Nickname
Password

Membership:
Latest: HighestAce
New Today: 0
New Yesterday: 0
Overall: 6648

People Online:
Members: 0
Visitors: 211
Total: 211
Who Is Where:
 Visitors:
01: Community Forums
02: Community Forums
03: News
04: Community Forums
05: Community Forums
06: Home
07: Photo Gallery
08: Community Forums
09: Community Forums
10: Home
11: Home
12: Community Forums
13: News Archive
14: Home
15: Community Forums
16: News
17: Home
18: Community Forums
19: Community Forums
20: Community Forums
21: Home
22: Community Forums
23: Home
24: Home
25: Community Forums
26: Community Forums
27: Community Forums
28: Home
29: Community Forums
30: Downloads
31: Home
32: Community Forums
33: News
34: Home
35: Member Screenshots
36: Home
37: Community Forums
38: Community Forums
39: Community Forums
40: Your Account
41: Community Forums
42: Home
43: Member Screenshots
44: Home
45: Community Forums
46: Community Forums
47: Home
48: News Archive
49: Home
50: Home
51: Community Forums
52: Home
53: Your Account
54: Photo Gallery
55: Community Forums
56: Community Forums
57: Community Forums
58: Community Forums
59: Home
60: Downloads
61: Home
62: Home
63: Community Forums
64: Community Forums
65: Home
66: Home
67: Home
68: Community Forums
69: Home
70: Home
71: Home
72: Member Screenshots
73: Your Account
74: Community Forums
75: Community Forums
76: Home
77: Home
78: Home
79: Home
80: News Archive
81: Downloads
82: Community Forums
83: Home
84: Home
85: Community Forums
86: Home
87: Home
88: Community Forums
89: Home
90: Home
91: Home
92: Home
93: Home
94: Home
95: Home
96: Your Account
97: Home
98: News Archive
99: Home
100: Community Forums
101: Community Forums
102: Community Forums
103: Home
104: Home
105: Community Forums
106: Community Forums
107: Community Forums
108: Community Forums
109: Home
110: Community Forums
111: Community Forums
112: Home
113: Community Forums
114: Community Forums
115: Home
116: Home
117: Community Forums
118: Home
119: Home
120: Home
121: Home
122: Home
123: Home
124: Home
125: Community Forums
126: Home
127: Home
128: Community Forums
129: Community Forums
130: Home
131: Home
132: Home
133: Home
134: Community Forums
135: Home
136: Home
137: Home
138: Home
139: Home
140: Home
141: Home
142: Home
143: Home
144: Community Forums
145: Community Forums
146: Home
147: Home
148: Home
149: Photo Gallery
150: Community Forums
151: Home
152: Home
153: Community Forums
154: Home
155: Home
156: Member Screenshots
157: Community Forums
158: Home
159: Home
160: Home
161: Home
162: Community Forums
163: Community Forums
164: Community Forums
165: Community Forums
166: Community Forums
167: Home
168: Community Forums
169: Community Forums
170: Home
171: Community Forums
172: Home
173: Home
174: Home
175: Home
176: Home
177: Home
178: Home
179: Home
180: News
181: Home
182: Community Forums
183: Home
184: Home
185: Community Forums
186: Home
187: Home
188: Community Forums
189: Community Forums
190: Home
191: Community Forums
192: Community Forums
193: Photo Gallery
194: Home
195: Community Forums
196: Photo Gallery
197: Home
198: Downloads
199: Downloads
200: Downloads
201: Search
202: Downloads
203: Community Forums
204: Home
205: Home
206: Member Screenshots
207: Community Forums
208: Your Account
209: Community Forums
210: Downloads
211: Home

Staff Online:

No staff members are online!
Bad News :: Archived
Discussions about the FS2004 game.
Post new topic    Revive this topic    Printer Friendly Page     Forum Index ›  FSXFS2004 :: Archives

Topic Archived View previous topic :: View next topic  
Author Message
piney
Power User

Offline Offline
Joined: Jan 24, 2006
Posts: 2330
Location: Republic of Southern New Jersey
PostPosted: Wed May 13, 2009 5:16 am
Post subject: Bad News

Avsim Destroyed!!

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Folks,

Today, AVSIM was destroyed by a hacker. Both of our primary servers were hacked and the partition tables destroyed, and that will be very difficult to overcome. I won’t speculate on who did it, but we will have a forensic done on our disks and scrutinize the logs to validate our suspicions.

I would appreciate if you could post the following as a news item or announcement on your websites or forums. Nels and Francois, I know we have been competitors, but I would very much appreciate you posting this on your web sites, if you could.

PRESS RELEASE: AVSIM Hacked!!

Tom Allensworth, CEO and Publisher of AVSIM, today issued the following announcement; “We regret to inform the flight simulation community that on Tuesday, May 12, AVSIM was hacked and effectively destroyed. The method of the hack makes recovery difficult, if not impossible, to recover from. Both servers, that is the library / email and web site / forum servers were attacked. AVSIM is totally offline at this time and we expect to be so for some time to come. We are not able to predict when we will be back online, if we can come back at all. We will post more news as we are able to in the coming days and weeks. END

Best Regards,
Tom Allensworth


Piney
Back to top
View user's profile Send e-mail
JG300-Ascout
Power User

Offline Offline
Joined: Jan 05, 2005
Posts: 6257
Location: Cyberspace
PostPosted: Wed May 13, 2009 5:30 am
Post subject: Re: Bad News

"Kill them...kill them with fire!"

I cannot use the language that I would otherwise employ on an open forum. Avsim has done nothing but bring pleasure to many thousands of enthusiast. I never uploaded there, but have downloaded often.

_________________
"All facts go to clearly prove that Shades is a thrice-cursed traitor & mentally deranged person steeped in inveterate enmity toward mankind"
Back to top
View user's profile Photo Gallery
JG300-1Bullet
Power User

Offline Offline
Joined: Jan 05, 2005
Posts: 1117
Location: Odessa, Texas
PostPosted: Thu May 14, 2009 3:17 am
Post subject: Re: Bad News

Dang..........that really pi__es me off. I D L ed a lot of planes and appreciated the folks at avsim alot. Best of luck to them and I hope they find the A holes that did that.

WHAT THE H E LL IS THE WORLD COMIN TO!!!!

_________________

You've never been lost until you've been lost at Mach 3
Back to top
View user's profile Visit poster's website Photo Gallery
401RCAF_Hammer
Power User

Offline Offline
Joined: Feb 03, 2005
Posts: 921
Location: Burlington, Ontario, Canada.
PostPosted: Thu May 14, 2009 7:48 pm
Post subject: Re: Bad News

-S-

Why in the hell would someone do that..??? probably just kids, wrecked a great site for aircraft lovers, hope they get up again soon...

Hammer Smile Cool Smile Cool Smile

_________________
Six simple words...

Free ammo
Free weed
Hot women

Hammers World
Back to top
View user's profile
HF_SlowHand
Power User

Offline Offline
Joined: Aug 27, 2005
Posts: 767
Location: Meeechigan
PostPosted: Thu May 14, 2009 8:08 pm
Post subject: Re: Bad News

AVSIM DOWN

_________________
I deny everything
I lie about everything
And everything I deny
Is a lie!
Back to top
View user's profile Send e-mail Visit poster's website
Uhu_Fledermaus
Aircraft Demolition Expert

Offline Offline
Joined: Nov 28, 2004
Posts: 4369
Location: Blaricum, The Netherlands ~GMT+1
PostPosted: Fri May 15, 2009 3:58 pm
Post subject: Re: Bad News

I've read as to how they had setup their servers, it was a thing coming that it would go wrong, also without getting into to much details, Mr. Tom is cashing in BIG TIME with all the "donations"
Back to top
View user's profile ICQ Number MSN Messenger Photo Gallery
Display posts from previous:   
Post new topic    Revive this topic    Printer Friendly Page    Forum Index ›  FSXFS2004 :: Archives
Page 1 of 1
All times are GMT - 6 Hours

Archive Revive
Username:
This is an archived topic - your reply will not be appended here.
Instead, a new topic will be generated in the active forum.
The new topic will provide a reference link to this archived topic.