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I request all our members and visitors not to visit the hathway official website which is hathway.com as it has been hacked and will install spyware on your computer without your conscent.

If you have a Hathway related query please post here and other members will be able to help you out in case they know a solution.

The site was hacked by some one yesterday and Hathway probbably doesnt even know...

I have sent an e-mail to their registrant contact e-mail to advise them of this attack.

This might be an insider job as well but any way its best to stay away from that site untill the sort it out.

Thanks

Archer

How did you know that ?

Vivek Rai

Well When You Seach It on google you will find that the site got hacked

Archer

Yeah! Thanks. I hope Google is not going crazy. I tried to search Flashget (download manager) yesterday and Google said it have virus. Today they removed that Alert.

jarsonline

I was using Flashget yesterday. My antivirus mentioned that flashgetupdate some file is a virus

Archer

So Google is not going crazy. They might have improved their security.

smoothvibes

google is the best one and they don't create mess like this so if google is saying that there is a problem then its better to stay away from that site

Archer

Thanks! for the news admin.

I checked the site using MCAFEE site adviser and got this.

Source link: here

Archer

Seems Hathway is off the hook now. Google removed the Warning message. But still have the Bad repo.

beat_root

Ahh, thats bad news (i use the hathway site regularly to verify my usage)

I wonder how Hathway has managed to survive the competetion after all this.....
I'm desperately waiting for BSNL so that I can trash Hathway

bbindia

We used hathway almost 4 years back and just heard back about them here

hexwiz

Understood that any site can be hacked but I dont think the McAfee advisory is conclusive of the fact that the site was hacked. There's just too many things possible here.

First, if someone were to start spamming and if he were to make it look like it was coming from someone@hathway.com - that's easy.

Second - A hathway subscriber's pc is infected with a virus which has an encoded smtp engine - sending out spam - could be done with a few lines of code widely available over the internet. On tracing the originating mail relay server ip it's traced to hathway.

There's more possibilities here but I am not ruling out the fact that the hathway.com site was hacked - but I just refuse to go in for an uneducated guess or assumption based on the fact that some user whose credentials I dont even know commented on having received spam from hathway.com

MaXcee

Looks many sites are hacked nowadys

i hear that 13 yr old boy hacking rapidshare accounts hmmmm

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forum w are hacked this becomes intresting hope all of them use


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player

@offtopic
Hacking of rapidshare premium acc is nowadays a fashion

The One

LOl!!!
You are right man. The Black Hat Hacking has really become a kind of fashion these days.
I had gone to many places where I found many Hacking Contests and show-offs going on.

I have a new idea. Why don't we start a Hacking Contest for IBF?
Whoever first hack IBF shall get the IBF as the prize...

newprouser

.. and if he were to hack IBF itself what r u gonna gift him ??

cool_techie_tvm

I seriously hope someone responsible is reading this !!

mickey

hathway was perviously hacked up many a times.....
i think its actually an insider who is doing this...
sorry to hathway users, they cant even check their usage,.,its a real mess of something..

magnet

Recently google had problem which used to declare all sites harmfull becoz of their own problem....i guess u talking abt that

cool_techie_tvm

Actually it was a hiccup with the malware site collaborating with google. Hence all the search results were listed as malware