@JeffPatton (JeffPatton) posted a new topic, subject "-RANT- VRay forums hacked?". It read:

   Just tried to get to the Vray forum and a “we've hacked this site” message appears (I assume this is what everyone else see's when they go there).
    
    Jeeesh, WTF is up with the people that do this type stuff? :banghead:

After which, @roborn (roborn) added

    I guess people are pretty anger with the long delay of the 1.5 release. But nothing justifies this kind of thing. Truly sad. :shrug:  
    I hope that they have backups of the forum: thats was a very important resource.

So @percydaman (percydaman) replied

    this has nothing to do with 1.5 This is a typical attack from a typical hacker group that did a systematic search for those with vulnerabilities…

To which @jabbermacy (jabbermacy) replied

    It's a new form af attach on forums. It's all over the place now…

To which @grau (grau) replied

    it's still all there, there is some link on the far left, from where you can access the forum search

So @thev (thev) replied

    We are working on restoring the operation of the VRay forum, but it will take some time as we need to find out if there are any other damages done to the web server.
    
    Best regards,  
    Vlado

So @roborn (roborn) replied

    percydaman:
    
    > this has nothing to do with 1.5 This is a typical attack from a typical hacker group that did a systematic search for those with vulnerabilities…
    
    at the moment, i don't remember exactly the message that was wrote on the forum frontpage, but was something like update your software/apps. i thought that it was about 1.5.  
    my mistake. :hmm:

To which @equinoxx (Equinoxx) replied

    uch they should lock these hackers up on an island with computers WITHOUT netconnection, that'll teach em. :banghead:

To which @jason-slab (jason-slab) replied

    Yves Adam:
    
    > uch they should lock these hackers up on an island with computers WITHOUT netconnection, that'll teach em. :banghead:
    
    LOL, now that would hurt em!
    
    hope there isn't to many problems fixing!
    
    |jason

Then @JohnnyRandom (JohnnyRandom) said

    Yves Adam:
    
    > uch they should lock these hackers up on an island with computers WITHOUT netconnection, that'll teach em. :banghead:
    
    And network them all together until they drive each other mad

To which @CupOWonton (CupOWonton) replied

    dizzl8r:
    
    > And network them all together until they drive each other mad 
    
    “OMG! YOU HAXXORED MY COMPUTORRR!” " No I didnt! PROVE IT!" " Your's is the only computer connexored to mine!" “oh right”

To which @JeffPatton (JeffPatton) replied

    and make sure the only OS they could use would be WindowsME…lol.

After which, @instinct-vfx (instinct-vfx) added

    Holy moly Jeff…have you been some torture officer in a previous live ?? 
    
    Thorsten

Then @CupOWonton (CupOWonton) said

    Their only computers will be CALCULATORS! BWAHAHAHHA!
    
    Not those fancy TI calculators either, we're talking the mini-soilar powered-calculators made back in the 80's and held together by duct tape.

After which, @thev (thev) added

    The VRay forum is back online now; apologies for the inconvenience.
    
    Best regards,  
    Vlado

@yog (yog) replied

    hatebreeder:
    
    > at the moment, i don't remember exactly the message that was wrote on the forum frontpage, but was something like update your software/apps. i thought that it was about 1.5.  
    >  my mistake. :hmm:
    
    It's generally a standard message left by this type of scum to taunt the site owners into upgrading their site protection software.
    
    As a Vray user I can say that for “me” there is no rush in rolling the version number up to “1.5”, because there have been countless upgrades and a shed load of new features added since I started using the program about 18 months ago.

After which, @percydaman (percydaman) added

    yes while the wait for 1.5 has been frustrating at times, the new features added essentially for free more then makes up for the wait.

@TheWriter (TheWriter) replied

    The Mental Ray guys were smart after all. Because they do not bother with real forums, they never have to worry about being attacked!

To which @LoneRobot (LoneRobot) replied

    > and make sure the only OS they could use would be WindowsME…lol.
    
    ouch! 
    
    nobody should have to go back to that cr*p. id forgotten it even existed. funny tho!

After which, @CGTalk_Moderation (CGTalk_Moderation) added

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