Strange behavior, Mail malfunction, Final Cut malfunction + more

Hi guys!
I just wanna share some experience with you that hopefully can solve some of you with problems:
It started with Mail keep crashing the minute I tried to click on a message in order to read it. Final Cut X started, but nothing showed up in my projects. I could create a new event in Calendar, but was unable to edit it.
This made me wonder if it could be font related (I have had strange things happen regarding fonts during the years with Mac...)
And, it was!
I restored the System's Fonts folder from a Time Machine backup, and the problem was either or (or possibly both) HelveticaNeue (HelveticaNeue.dfont) and (HelveticaNeueDeskUI.ttc), so make sure that these fonts are present in that folder, and turn them off in if you for instance run Suitcase for your fontfolio.
Restart after making sure that the fonts are present in System/Library/Fonts folder.
Hope it help some of you guys out there!
//Wolw

In short, I was running a website (no mail services at the time) that was heavily dependent on PHP for dynamic content, I was told that we were on the latest security patchlevel for all the software on the box.
A hacker took advantage of a security hole in the old version of PHP we were running (which the hosting company told me had been patched) to install a suite of spam generators and backdoors.
I found out about the hack when my hosting company shut down my server for "excessive bandwidth" which I didn't understand since our site was running very slowly. I had to go to the hosting company to log in to the box, and found so much excess crap running I couldn't believe what I was seeing. My website was being used to send out mass amounts of spam, as well as blast IP packets at an IP that I learned was a bank in Hong Kong. Along with all the other stuff, a timer process was running (with an artificially small pid - don't know how they did that....) that would create a root-level user whenever it wanted to.
I had to take my SQL dumps and my initial-state backup (thank god I did that before taking the site live) and reconstruct the server after deleting everything and reloading the latest versions and patches of everything.
That experience has made me very jumpy when it comes to server security.
Bottom line is, I monitor the websites of all the S/W I depend on for security announcements, and I'm constantly on the alert for issues which would apply to me.
Sorry if I frightened anyone, but the email header that Tobias posted looked eerily similar to what my server was sending out when it was under the evil influence.
-Gregg

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Can final cut pro be purchased and downloaded on more than one computer?

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