AnimalCrossingCommunity.com (a.k.a. "ACC") is your one-stop site for everything Animal Crossing -- and now, Animal Crossing: Wild World! Here you can set up your inventory to trade your stuff with other users using our innovative Trading Post or chat with other Animal Crossing members on our Message Boards. You can show off your artistic talents by creating patterns with our Pattern Maker and have other members vote on whether or not it's worthy of the Top 10.

You can also find information and discussions about Animal Crossing: Wild World (formerly Animal Crossing DS), the latest version of Animal Crossing released for Nintendo's newest handheld console, Nintendo DS. Animal Crossing: Wild World supports wi-fi for online connectivity with your friends, as well as many other new features. Check out our AC: Wild World Board for info and discussions about Animal Crossing: Wild World. We have also added a Friend Codes sharing system that allows you to privately -- and safely -- swap Friend Codes with other members of the community. Not only can you swap Friend Codes for Animal Crossing: Wild World, but other Nintendo DS WiFi games as well!

This is just the tip of the ACC iceberg. There's a ton to explore and do at ACC and we're always adding new and exciting features. If you are a new user click here to get started. Or, you can browse the site on your own, and use the Getting Started link in the AC Community menu to help you out whenever you need it.

Support ACC
ACC has now grown to where it requires commercial hosting -- which means, we require incoming revenue to help support our monthly costs. One way we do this is through advertisements. The second way we do this is through member support, by means of donations. If you enjoy ACC and feel that we are providing a safe and fun service to you, you can help support our costs by donating. For those that do donate, we will be offering a few perks, to express appreciation for your support.

For more details and instructions on donating, click the following button:


Site Announcements
4/21/2008 10:54:07 AM
Welcome New Site Manager: BowserBasher
I am pleased to announce that we have added a second Site Manager, BowserBasher. BowserBasher has been one of the longest serving staff members, and is the first staff member to have served as a Scout, Moderator, and Site Manager. He has always worked well with the community, and with the staff. We know that he will serve the role of Site Manager well.

Just to clarify, cmh and BowserBasher will both serve jointly as Site Managers, long term. Please join me on this thread in welcoming BowserBasher to the Site Manager role.
4/4/2008 6:49:55 AM
Follow Up to Yesterday
The help files and FAQ have been fixed.

If you notice something out of the ordinary or something similar to yesterday's events please contact me via PT or post it in our discussion thread on Site Support.

Some recommendations

  • Its important to have some sort of virus scanner installed. Macs and Linux PCs are not immune to getting a virus, they are just less likely targets and are less vulnerable.

  • Always make sure your virus detection files are up to date.

  • Make sure that your virus protection is turned on and running.

Virus Scanning Software

Norton Anti-Virus

MacAfee Anti-Virus

AVG - Free

Avast! - Free

ClamXav - Free - Mac OS X Only

Internet Explorer alternatives

Firefox

Opera

Safari

As in the previous announcement. Please keep all discussions in this thread on Site Support. If you have any tips or other advice for your fellow ACC members regarding this incident please join us there.

Thanks.
4/3/2008 7:42:21 PM
Issues Earlier Today
Earlier today ACC was experiencing some strange things on the boards. We are not completely certain what happened but somehow a virus/trojan infected the server. We have identified one possible culprit. The trojan/worm is called VBS.Chu.A@mm. This is the info that Symantec has on it.

VBS.Chu.A@mm Removal

Its possible that this virus was transfered from the server out to some people's computers. Not everyone was affected. It seems to have only affected those using Internet Explorer. It was using an exploit in Internet Explorer's Active X feature to load in the files. To be on the safe side its a good idea to update your virus detection files and run a thorough scan.

If you do not have a virus scanner, you can download a free one from GriSoft - AVG. There are other online tools to try out as well like Trend Micro's Housecall.

EDIT: The issue with the help files has now been resolved.

Thanks.

Site Support Discussion
4/1/2008 10:03:35 AM
New Staff Additions - 04/01/2008
We are adding 4 people to the staff.

LadyKathryn will be joining the Mods. LadyKathryn is a long time ACC member and currently works at JUG.

ZacharyTheOwl will be joining the Scouts. He too works at JUG and has been with ACC since last year.

PudgeGoldieMint will be joining the Scouts. He's been a member since 2006.

TaylorGS will also be joining the Scouts. She's been an ACC member since 2005.

Please join me in congratulating these guys on joining the ACC staff.

3/31/2008 12:31:35 PM
Flood Control - Active
In another effort to help combat the spam problem we have set up a flood control on the boards. If you try to post too many threads or posts on the boards this is the message that you will get:

We're sorry, but members are only allowed to post new threads once every 60 seconds, and new posts once every 5 seconds.

We may tweak these settings but for now those are what we have it set at; 60 seconds between threads and 5 seconds between posts.

Thanks to all who were involved in the discussions.

If you have any questions please ask in this thread on Site Support.
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