Hello,
We would like to apologize for yesterday's spam incident, which happened on this forum.
Although it may appear that it was sent from Alwil's staff, this is not the case. The malicious user appears to have registered, found the list of the users, and then sent personal messages to them, with the subject line: "URGENT MESSAGE FROM ADMIN!!!". If you received such a PM, you were also sent the copy of it in an email with the sender "avast!WEBforum" <webadmin@asw.cz>.
Please note that there was no compromise of the user database, and no email addresses were leaked from the site. However, preventive measures have now been taken, and include the registration now being a two-step process - users now have to have a valid email address, and personal messages are only available for users with 20 or more posts.
We're also looking for other options of eliminating this kind of forum spam and we are hopeful that such a situation will not happen again.
