Some of you may have noticed that the PVB was down this morning. If you noticed it and you're running Windows, please run a virus/spyware scan as soon as possible.

Starting last night there was a heavy denial-of-service attack against this server. It happens fairly often - but what I didn't realize is it was either this domain in particular, or this message board, which was targeted.

Sometime during last night, the hackers who attacked this site finally succeeded. They replaced the contents of the site with a "hacked" message and possible downloadable malware. While I believe their malware was broken and didn't work anyway, you should check and make sure.

This is the fourth time in a year this site has been compromised and vandalized, only this was the worst one yet. There have been attempts, mostly unsuccessful, at least once per month, including Denial of Service attacks that cripple the site, one of which forced it to switch domains.

I'm not sure if it's because someone wants the mangacool.com/mangacool.net domains more than I do, and wants to force me to give them up. Or if it's a particular grudge against the PVB. The only thing I'm sure of is this site has become a high-profile hacker target somehow, and they will never rest. Since I don't have a Pentagon-sized staff to look after it, that means the only solution is to try and hide it.

In short, that means before next month, I'm considering moving the PVB to the strike-two.com or strike-two.net domain, and hope it doesn't become a target. Another thing I'm considering is changing the name of it (the url, I mean - instead of "parodyverse", maybe "pvb") as well.

I'd appreciate any suggestions in the mean time, especially in how to quickly notify all our posters of the move.

EDIT: I've taken some additional security precautions to try to protect the site. Hopefully they'll work. I won't move the board until I verify whether the precautions worked or not. Meanwhile, though, I really do want need a way to quickly notify all posters to the board if it does move.