2012 Virus

A virus caused minor panic in the community by somehow infecting jiggmin.com on July 11, 2012."JV Historical Reference Guide". Acid Forums. August 2015. If visitors went on the site that day, they would be asked to let Java run on their computer. Once accepted: they were taken to a Russian site, which then redirected them to a .tk domain that automatically downloaded the virus "hkpo.exe". 
A significant number of people got infected, leading browsers like Chrome to issue notices within an hour that the site had malware and blocked it from loading.
An announcement was issued by the staff advising members still on the forum to be careful and block access to the .tk site if their computer or antivirus prompted them. There were a few ways to bypass the virus, such as by switching to the alternate "vB4 Default" skin, however most simply stayed off JV for the day.
Jiggmin had removed the virus by the next day and another announcement was given urging anyone who visited the site to run a scan on their computer just to be safe. Jiggmin himself never commented on what caused the infection.
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