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As someone who uses Microsoft Flight Simulator X, I was shocked to see today that one of the main websites for the flight sim hobby, Avsim.com, was destroyed by a hacker. It may not recover.

http://simflight.com/2009/05/avsim-destroyed-by-hacker/

I hope NSD has a good backup server to prevent a disaster like this.

Our host does do backups. It came in handy recently when I upgraded the forum and it wiped out the custom art we had in there. I was able to restore it from the backups.

... thereby saving his slacker graphic designer countless minutes of having to recreate the artwork

Excuse my language here but what kind of an asshole goes into a sight that does nothing to cause problem an d decides he's going to be a damned nuesence and wreck the whole thing. If anybody here has ever p;ayed the Microsoft FS they know exactly how it is one of the best simulators out there. It's up there with Silent Hunter III/IV and Ship Simulator. I hope that hacker is caught worthless swine. This is what the wo;d is going to.

Joshua l.Chamberlain wrote:

Excuse my language here but what kind of an asshole goes into a sight that does nothing to cause problem an d decides he's going to be a damned nuesence and wreck the whole thing. If anybody here has ever p;ayed the Microsoft FS they know exactly how it is one of the best simulators out there. It's up there with Silent Hunter III/IV and Ship Simulator. I hope that hacker is caught worthless swine. This is what the wo;d is going to.

I agree 100%.. Everyone that does this kind of stuff should be dragged out to the street and shot. I deal with it every day working in IT (virus's, spyware) and it's a big pain.

On the other hand, avsim should have been prepared for something like this.. It's called "disaster recovery" and they obviously didn't have a disaster recovery plan.