Re: Site shutdown today from .RAR virus files uploaded?
132Spot on, none of us should be using WinRAR anymore. The free alternative is 7-Zip.
This topic revival reminds me of the absolute menace of a thing this problem was which ended up costing tens of thousands (US dollars) to solve. All of this could have been avoided with antivirus software installed on traders machines and was mind boggling just how many people "traded" yet had zero security software.
In regards to Forex Station, since then, I've overhauled and fortified the entire site as well as dedicated myself to never seeing this repeated again. Here's the full article which featured screenshots from our site at the time, although this affected many forex forums, it was our forum that was criticized and lambasted for it being distributed.
And with that, it made me realize just how important Forex Station is.