Apparently, the AI Squared staff were quick to pounce on the problem. I went to bed with WE 9 and all associated apps working great. This morning--about 10:00 for me since I became involved in a really good thriller and didn't fall out until about 2:00 am--and this morning, the first thing after IPL was a notification that a couple of apps had updates. One of them was the GWToolkit. I updated the app to GWToolkit 8.5.9 and everything is working fine. I never downloaded the hacked app, and so never received the Isis message.
You might try downloading the newest GWToolkit app again, because it sounds like your first attempt failed. -----Original Message----- From: Nancy B. Gibson [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, January 16, 2015 10:17 AM To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Re: Ai Squared Statement on Security Breach Sorry, but I got the messages after updating to 8.5.9 from 8.5.6. Have now gone back to 8.5.5 and don't get them any more. ----- Original Message ----- From: Jeremy Curry <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Date: Friday, January 16, 2015 10:12 am Subject: Ai Squared Statement on Security Breach > > > Dear Window-Eyes Users, > > First we want to apologize for the unfortunate messages that some of you may have seen this morning. We wanted to take a minute to address what happened and explain how we plan on preventing this in the future. > > We released App Central in 2008 as a central repository for Window Eyes Apps, documentation and related resources. App Central was built as a community resource, from the beginning we wanted all Window-Eyes users to be able to contribute and benefit from each others efforts. We're proud of what we accomplished - App Central today contains over 299 apps and more are added all the time. > > Sometime early this morning a user with familiarity with Window-Eyes and the App Central environment breached out security and posted an update to GW Toolkit. Users who downloaded the update were exposed to some unfortunate messages. Our analysis shows that no permanent changes were made to your Window-Eyes installation and, if you update to GW Toolkit version 8.5.9 the problems you may be experiencing should be resolved. Instructions on how to manually update your Apps is at the following KB article www.gwmicro.com/kb2062 > > We have changed passwords and security on our systems that run App Central and we've turned off developer updates to apps for the time being. In the next few days we'll be performing an internal security audit to determine what steps we can take to prevent something like this from happening again. > > Rest assured that we take security seriously and we'll be implementing these steps in a logical, ordered fashion. > > Once again, our apologies and thank you for your patience on this matter. > > The Ai Squared Team > > Jeremy Curry > Director of Product Management > Ai Squared - Formerly GW Micro, Inc. > Phone: (802) 362-3612 > Email: [email protected] > Web: www.aisquared.com > If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv. If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv.
