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Latest Status Updates:
Wetpaint Status - Wetpaint Central 5.10.11 - Server lag appears to be reappearing. You may notice a delay in updates, messages, etc. Email notifications are currently out of whack. Wetpaint are working to correct the issues.
Good or All a Go 4.29.11 - Recaptcha's old SSL certificate expired yesterday which is why the registration page stopped working. The issue has been resolved.
Wetpaint Status - Wetpaint Central4.28.11 - There seems to be an issue with the Captcha area of the sign up screen. Wetpaint has been notified of this problem. Please be patient until the problem is resolved.

Wetpaint Status - Wetpaint Central4.20.11 - Users may experience some minor lag in threads, usually thread posts disappearing and reappearing again. This is most likely because of the last release, and should iron itself out within a few weeks.

Good or All a Go4.13.11 - All bugs have been fixed, and users can now move pages again.

Wetpaint Status - Wetpaint Central1.18.11 - The development team is currently working to bring several out of sync database servers up to date. Once this problem is corrected, users will no longer go "back in time" upon refreshing a page and landing on a bad server; all pages, threads, and private messages will be up to date as soon as this problem is corrected.

Wetpaint Status - Wetpaint Central 10.6.10 - Users should now be able to sign in and edit pages. However, posting threads, sending person to person messages, and the updates are still down. We're working on a fix.

Wetpaint Status - Wetpaint Central 10.5.10 - Our database developed some problems that started preventing users from being able to sign in, post threads, or edit pages. We apologize for the down time and any inconvenience it has caused. We hope to have everything working normally as soon as possible.
Good or All a Go8.22.10 - All of the known bugs that occurred as a result of the last release have been squashed.

Attention8.20.10 - We're experiencing some technical difficulties at the moment that may prevent you from accessing many Wetpaint features. We're aware of the problems, however, it may take some time to work out the glitches in our last release. Please don't post a new thread in the discussion forum, as we have already been notified of the bugs in our release.
Attention5.05.10 - We've been getting reports of users encountering something (most likely Flash ads) that cause one to be redirected to another site. Wetpaint is investigating.

More info:
Removal information for users exposed to the BankerFox.A Trojan

Past Status Updates

Attention2.01.10 - Wetpaint is still receiving reports of malware being served up via Flash ads on Wetpaint sites. Wetpaint is working to identify the source. You can help protect your computer by making sure you have updated Flash Player and Adobe Reader/Acrobat. Also make sure you are running anti-virus software on your system and have all the latest updates for it.

Attention1.29.10 - Malware Eliminated
The source of the malware was found, and the malicious ads were removed from Wetpaint sites. If you receive any more malware warnings, please contact Wetpaint, or post a thread here on WPC.

Attention1.11.10 - Malware Warnings
Some Malware warnings found on Wetpaint wikis are results of attackers that have exploited some critical vulnerabilities that exist in Adobe Flash Player (v9.0.159.0 and v10.0.22.87) Please visit Adobe's website and download the security fix.


Attention11.23.09 - Watchlist Bug
Wetpaint is experiencing some problems with the watchlist. For now, you can view the pages you've edited and the threads you've replied to in your contribution history.

Good or All a Go10.20.09 - New member email notifications have been disabled
The hardware that supports new member email notification processing can't handle the job anymore. The good news is the Wetpaint operations team is working on implementing some better, faster, stronger hardware. The bad news is that it may take a couple of weeks. Thanks for your patience while we get this fixed!

Good or All a Go2.4.2009 - Malware warning

What Happened?

Wetpaint discovered that an advertisement we were serving contained malware. We found out about this issue thanks to our users reporting the problem. We believe the malware came from an advertiser that turned out to be less than trustworthy. The ad that we ran for them turned out to include code that prompted users to run "Antivirus 360" to scan their computer for viruses. In reality, this ad would install malware on the user's computer if they clicked on it. The malware was first spotted several months ago, but was not reported. It was only recently that more Wetpaint users began to experience it.

This is what a malware ad looks like









If you click either OK or Cancel, it will take you to this page (whether or not you are using a Mac OR a PC), where it will scan your computer, planting a virus.

Wetpaint Status - Wetpaint Central

About the Antivirus360 malware

Antivirus360 is the latest version of a known and venerable spyware package. It is a fake Antivirus software package and takes its name from Symantec’s newest product. It pretends to scan your machine for viruses while actually installing them. It then shows a list of infected files which, if deleted, actually causes Windows to cease functioning.

More information on a previous version of Antivirus360, including infected files and registry keys created can be found at Symantec.

What is Wetpaint doing?

Wetpaint has taken steps to block the malicious ad. We are now...
  • Verifying the cause
  • Determining how many users were affected
  • Determining the best fix for any users that were affected

What can I do?

If you clicked on the ad and think you might have been infected, we highly recommend running an anti-virus/malware scan using a reputable product.Instructions on how to uninstall Antivirus 360 can be found here: http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/malware-removal/remove- antivirus-360 If a virus shows up on your scan called "VirtuMonde," please let us know as this may be a high risk adware virus that comes with Antivirus 360.

Free anti-virus tools
  1. Malwarebytes Anti-Malware
  2. AVG Free
  3. View more free options at CNET
 Commercial anti-virus tools
  1. Kaspersky
  2. Symantec
  3. AVG Internet Security
If you are still seeing ad-ware issues occur anywhere on Wetpaint, we would greatly appreciate if you would report it to us along with a screen capture of the offending ad.

We messed up

We are very disappointed that we messed up and let something like this happen to you guys. Going forward we will be very carefully screening advertisers that want to place ads on Wetpaint sites, and developing a stringent process to protect our users from any future scams.

As always, please let us know if you have any questions, concerns, or suggestions by email or by posting a thread in the discussion forum here at Wetpaint Central. We sincerely apologize to anyone that has been affected by this unfortunate event, and we promise to do our best to make sure nothing like this happens again on our watch.

Best regards,

The Wetpaint Team

Good or All a Go11.11.08 - Maintenance completed successfully

Good or All a Go10.21.08 - Maintenance completed

Good or All a Go7.23.08 - Update: We've fixed the random assortment of issues from our last release.
7.18.08 We're working on a number of issues related to last night's release.
  • Fixed! - Inability to send invitations from wikis with custom domains.
  • Fixed! - Vizu polls may disappear (re-adding them works, but we've got a fix).
  • Fixed! - Photo Gallery slideshow may appear empty.
  • Fixed! - Viewing a slideshow from a photo detail page may attempt to load a slideshow from the whole gallery.
Good or All a Go6.27.08 - All's well!

Good or All a GoWetpaint will be undergoing some routine maintenance beginning Wednesday 6/26/08 at 9:00 PM PDT. The maintenance is scheduled to last several hours during which the sites will be placed in read-only mode and the site creation process will be disabled. Apologies for any inconvenience and we’ll do everything we can to make it a short as possible!

Wetpaint Status - Wetpaint Central4.10.08 - We are currently working to fix a bug that is preventing users from getting past step 2 of the site creation process. We'll have things back to normal shortly!

Good or All a Go4.08.08 - The 4/8/08 release is now available. Check out the new Photo Gallery feature. Check it out!

Good or All a Go3.13.08 - The 3/12/08 release is now back up. You now have the Latest Site Activity Panel again. Check it out!

Wetpaint Status - Wetpaint Central3.13.08 - We just discovered a bug that causes the same sub-pages to appear over and over when you click on the little arrow to expand pages in the navigation pane. We are working to fix this now.

Wetpaint Status - Wetpaint CentralThe hot fix for Wednesday, March 12th is complete. We added a new version of the site activity panel back to the home page - this time on the left rail. Read on for details.

Good or All a GoThe hot fix for Monday, March 10th is complete. We found that our private messaging functionality had become a little bogged down after growing like crazy. We're glad you're clearly enjoying this functionality. Your inboxes should be more snappy than ever. Thanks for your patience while we make adjustments from our big v31 release.

Attention03.08.08 - A downtime that was caused by software issues, The Admin took care of it.

Attention03.07.08 - Patch release to fix some bugs and performance.. Along with a fix from adding a new server to the Wetpaint Interface.

Good or All a Go03.06.08 - Another great Wetpaint release.. Action packed with a New Navigation bar, and more editing space on pages. Check it out!

Good or All a Go02.11.08 - A release that included three great features, check it out here. This release included, Friends, Profile Templates, and the Pages with out Tags report.

Attention01.30.08 - A database synchronization problem caused new pages, edits, and other changes to appear as if they had not been made. All changes were being saved to the main database so no changes or data was lost. A fix was put in place by mid morning..
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Good or All a Go Everything is running well, a successful release was pushed or a previously mentioned problem has been resolved.
Attention When you see this it means that there was a downtime to fix something.
Upcoming Maintenance When you see this in the Latest Status Update section, it means there is an upcoming Wetpaint maintenance.