Hi Misteriphys, thanks for reporting.
We are suffering a virus attack for about a month or so.
Members are *strongly* encouraged not to click any suspicious "new" link.
Red flags/danger signs:
*New, previously unknown member (sorry new members, make yourselves known a little, avoid links on your *first* post , ask whatever you want and get invited to link schematics or whatever)
* Posts something irrelevant , such as "my cellphone now works better because ...." , "I found this incredible site full of Manga/Anime/Soccer pictures/whatever"
*Posts random, generic, valid anywhere responses, such as "good post", "security is important", "wash your hands", etc.
There is a new worm specifically written to attack forums such as this one: becomes member, reads all posts until it finds a word repeated often , say, "Stratocaster" and posts phrases like "if you want to see my *Stratocaster* , click: xxx.yyy.com"
Warning: some do not seem to post links in the message body itself, but on the signature.
Well, report if you see one, do not rely on "somebody else will"
Besides the virus problems caused to individual members, it would be a pity that some virus took down this great board.

Hi. I'll paste here a copy of what I answered on our sister Music Electronics Forums some questions about the virus attack we suffered here.
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For all it's worth, I still use Windows 98 (but SE, eh!), and Firefox 2 (two).
I run it in "extremely Paranoid" mode: NO Flash (Flashblock); NO javascript unless I specifically put the page in the whitelist (Controle de Scripts); AdBlockPlus, blocking even "benign adware" such as pesky Google pagead syndication, google analytics, GTalk, etc. ; no Java Console enabled; No animations or embedded music; specific extensions such as .gif or .pdf or .flv do not open into my outdated plugins but into Irfanview, Acrobat, Riva, etc.
My navigation went from slow to snappy, many pages open with blank rectangles where I click if interested, and You Tube vids download to hard disk, to be seen later at will.
I keep an IE copy to browse some sites, such as United flight information or some Microsoft bribed Government pages that do not accept otherwise or lose functionality .
Of course I do not even have Outlook installed.
Yes, some pages do not even open, just show a blank screen and claim "done".
Obviously there is not much "meat" there, only bone and grease.
Linux and Mac boxes, once inherently safe, are starting to get their fair share of malware now.
Un-safety lies in the numbers:
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That's about it.