Ashampoo Hacked, Warns of Malware

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If you use any of Ashampoo's software or utilities, you should probably read this.

Hackers gained access to one of our servers. We discovered the break-in and interrupted it instantly. The security gap through which the hackers gained access was closed immediately. At the same time we reported this incident to the police. Further investigations are underway. Unfortunately, the traces of the well-concealed hackers currently disperse abroad. That is why the expenditure of the German law enforcement agency was significantly increased and the clearing up has become more difficult.
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Does anyone use any of their software? I flipped through their catalog and it looks comprise of cheap knock offs of other stuff. Basically stuff that you would expect to get for free when buying a DVD burner.
 
I've used their burning software before. Fir the price it's actually pretty good (free in my case). Other than that, all I ever get from them is spam.
 
Hey, at least they did the appropriate thing and warned people. Thats better than some legit companies that cover stuff like this up.
 
DaFox said:
Does anyone use any of their software? I flipped through their catalog and it looks comprise of cheap knock offs of other stuff. Basically stuff that you would expect to get for free when buying a DVD burner.
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...or stuff that you would expect to come with malware :p

I've never heard of them before, but they have quite a sizable catalog.
 
Ashampoo has been around for a long time and back in the day they had THE BEST iso creation/mounting apps... Kids.... Don't know Jack $hitt.....:rolleyes::D
 
who makes a security suite and names it " Magical Security", oh thats right Ashampoo.

Are we sure this company wasn't put up over night and then released a fake press release for attention to their failing product lines?
 
mzs_biteme said:
Ashampoo has been around for a long time and back in the day they had THE BEST iso creation/mounting apps... Kids.... Don't know Jack $hitt.....:rolleyes::D
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Lol, that's good. Their software alway had a really cheap feel to it but was the best for certain situations. Like creating a DOS bootable CD, it really shouldn't be that difficult...
 
mzs_biteme said:
Ashampoo has been around for a long time and back in the day they had THE BEST iso creation/mounting apps... Kids.... Don't know Jack $hitt.....:rolleyes::D
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Heh, I've been building my own PC's since ~1990, and using them for years before that. I never heard of these guys. That being said, I only remember trying to make a bootable DOS CD on a handful of occasions, and I recall that it was a bit of a pain in the ass, as you had to make a boot floppy first, then read the boot image off of it into the CD program, which would then create an emulated floppy as part of the CD, which needed to include a DOS CD driver in order to work.

It was a pain... :p
 
Back in the days of USENET, when u actually needed a brain to download "warez", Ashampoo was it when mounting your newly "acquired" game, or app, without having to burn it onto a CD first... [H] crowd is disappointing these days.....:confused: ;)
 
mzs_biteme said:
Back in the days of USENET, when u actually needed a brain to download "warez", Ashampoo was it when mounting your newly "acquired" game, or app, without having to burn it onto a CD first... [H] crowd is disappointing these days.....:confused: ;)
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I haven't used "warez" since the dawn of the internet. Back in the early 90's during the BBS days I would download stuff from BBS's via my 2400 baud modem, and disk swap with friends, but they were usually cracked to the point of not needing CD's or images, or were floppy based :p

I never used usenet. I used IRC a fair bit in the early days of the internet, and lost of people were trading "warez" via IRC's file transfer, but I wasn't into that then. I guess at some point I grew up, didn't play as many games, and felt responsible for paying for the ones I did, because they were often the really good games, and I felt the developers deserved the money for them.

In more recent years when I've needed to mount an ISO for one reason or another I've used the freeware Daemon Tools. I've also mounted ISO's in VMWare and using the Linux "mount" command.
 
IRC, now that brings back memories. I was a big undernet junkie and at one time helped manage one of the bigger irc channels (we're talking over 130 people in channel on a regular basis). Thats where I used to get the bulk of my music long before Napster was even an idea. Especially in Oklahoma it was my sole source of pr0n (hardcore is illegal to sell in OK, only softporn like Playboy, Penthouse, etc). I even paid for my copy of mIRC. In fact, I still have it here somewhere.... I should fire it up and see if anyone I knew is still hanging around.
 
Tanis143 said:
IRC, now that brings back memories. I was a big undernet junkie and at one time helped manage one of the bigger irc channels (we're talking over 130 people in channel on a regular basis). Thats where I used to get the bulk of my music long before Napster was even an idea. Especially in Oklahoma it was my sole source of pr0n (hardcore is illegal to sell in OK, only softporn like Playboy, Penthouse, etc). I even paid for my copy of mIRC. In fact, I still have it here somewhere.... I should fire it up and see if anyone I knew is still hanging around.
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I logged on a few years ago, after not being on IRC since probably ~1998.

My old channels I managed on ircnet were still around, but I didn't recognize anyone on them, and I'd lost my op :p
 
Tanis143 said:
I even paid for my copy of mIRC.
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I remember mIRC. It was a good client. I first started on IRC - however - before there were dedicated clients, when you connected via telnet.

It was confusing cause all commands and and all channels were sent to the same screen, so I usually only was on one channel at a time...
 
you all talk like usenet and irc are old and dead. I still use both all the time.
 
Zarathustra[H];1037148247 said:
I logged on a few years ago, after not being on IRC since probably ~1998.

My old channels I managed on ircnet were still around, but I didn't recognize anyone on them, and I'd lost my op :p
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I played TF2 w/ a group of people for a while and asked if they had an IRC channel and the response I got was "What's IRC?".

I tried to explain "It's like this chatroom that everyone just kind of hangs out in", then I realized I sounded kind of creepy. :D

But yeah, I haven't logged in to an IRC server for years.
 
Finally, some peeps with more than just a peach fuzz to show for....
I remember staying up all night on the weekends, reading through newsgroups, where people would post IP addresses for their own FTP servers... A lot of them were setup where you had an upload/download ratio, basically making you upload something to get something back... And then there were pure leach servers, with a free for all for 12 to 24hrs, and then FTP disappeared... Good'ole days...
 
mzs_biteme, I remember those, but never used them. I mostly leached off irc using the !get command with bots. I ran a small bot net across three channels (used eggbot off a dedicated host server that I paid for). Man, now I'm kinda itching to get back into irc, but it would be like visiting your home town after being gone for so long, too many things different for it to feel like home again.
 
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