Ancestry - Down Again ?

[Hampshire Lass]

Thank you very much hatofthecat......think I've got that now 

Also thanks for the advice re FTM. I gave up with my FTM the night before last because it was doing very strange things indeed and then I had trouble closing it down.

Just hoping now that all will be well in due course.

[hatofthecat]

"I just need to remember to re-tick the boxes once everything is up and running again"

Have stuck a post it note right by my laptop for that 

Pete

[Hampshire Lass]

I still wonder if our account details are safe though as I simply don't understand why anyone would do this unless they stood to gain something from the hacking......or whatever the correct description of all this  disruption is.

[hatofthecat]

Accounts are okay as is all our data & trees.  These type of attacks are simply about "taking down" a site they have a some grudge against or, more typically for smaller sites, for attempted extortion from the site's owners.

These attacks are only possible due to the large numbers of PCs in the world without any proper virus software or firewall installed and working 

Pete

[markheal]

Ancestry Messages still do not open.

[hatofthecat]

Same here markheal - was talking about some parish registers on there with another user just before it all went down so chap on other end of that conversation is probably thinking that too 

Pete

[wrjones]

Ah the wonders of the net!I've been unable to gain access with Google Chrome and IE.However I tried with Firefox and in first time!

Regards
William Russell Jones.

[Cas (stallc)]

Accounts are okay as is all our data & trees.  These type of attacks are simply about "taking down" a site they have a some grudge against or, more typically for smaller sites, for attempted extortion from the site's owners.

These attacks are only possible due to the large numbers of PCs in the world without any proper virus software or firewall installed and working 

Pete

The mind boggles why so petty.  Surely near all have protective software on own PC?

[iolaus]

Ancestry Messages still do not open.

There is a work around - if you click on a member you've sent a message to in the past and inbox option is there and that let me in