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Shiz Pernicious and indubitate beggar
Joined: 10 Jun 2004 Posts: 366 Location: Middle of England, Ex-pat Scotland
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Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 11:43 am Post subject: Forum problems 25th April |
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Don't know if anyone else has had any issues today?
Tried to access PT at noon and couldn't get to it at all - a screen of error messages came up but I thought it was our firewall and ignored it.
Half an hour later I tried again and got the PT home page but when I clicked on the forum I got a blank screen only, and the page header said 'Defaced'.
(Also I notice T22's posts are all showing up as posted by 'Guest')
Access seems okay now, but I know there have been worms and viruses targeting bulletin boards in the past. Fingers crossed all ok?
SHiz _________________ Banging one's head against the wall seldom results in the answer falling out. |
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Carootje He hath a half face
Joined: 05 May 2004 Posts: 1785 Location: The Netherlands
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Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 11:46 am Post subject: |
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Good to see all is working again.
I hope all is okay. _________________ All that matters doesn't mean a thing,
Without love for the sake of life... |
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hyperbit Pernicious and indubitate beggar
Joined: 02 Apr 2005 Posts: 368 Location: Cambridge, England
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Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 11:46 am Post subject: |
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I hope you have the IP address of the bas%^rd who sent the phpBB worm. In the meantime it may be worth updating phpBB whenever a patch becomes available. This is not the first time ive seen phpBB become defaced due to a security flaw or buffer overrun.
Thanks for getting it back online quickly... _________________ uoznnz ufnl vhg kilcrnz |
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xyphic Forum git
Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 2804 Location: Cambridge, UK
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Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 11:55 am Post subject: |
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There are still some issues (e.g. T22's posts still showing as guest!) but we'll work to resolve those as soon as possible. If anyone is having trouble logging in or experiencing problems elsewhere, please email me at d.a.edwards@ntlworld.com. _________________ Puzzletome - Confusion now hath made his masterpiece! |
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SparkPlug Because I can
Joined: 30 Jan 2004 Posts: 11973 Location: Here!
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Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 1:22 pm Post subject: |
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Googling the message which appeared, showed quite a few hits - all victims of the same &"$%@, and all forums - many of which are still unfixed months later!
Maximum credit has to go to the Admin's here for getting this site up and running again with the minimum of delay - and also for putting up an intermediate message (something which a certain other site took weeks to do!)
Still, there's nothing like a dose of deprivation (however brief) to gets us all pondering what would fill the void between waking and sleeping (apart from pretending to work!) should this site disappear permanently
... perhaps now would be a good time to remember the DONATE link on the home page !
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hyperbit Pernicious and indubitate beggar
Joined: 02 Apr 2005 Posts: 368 Location: Cambridge, England
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Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 1:40 pm Post subject: |
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My advice would be to upgrade to phpBB 2.0.14 as soon as it is convenient, as the last few versions contain a couple of critical fixes It seems 2.0.11 (what is used here) is vunerable to attack _________________ uoznnz ufnl vhg kilcrnz |
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Carootje He hath a half face
Joined: 05 May 2004 Posts: 1785 Location: The Netherlands
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Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 1:45 pm Post subject: |
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SparkPlug wrote: | Googling the message which appeared, showed quite a few hits - all victims of the same &"$%@, and all forums - many of which are still unfixed months later! |
Been googling the same thing as you did.
Depressing to see how many were attacked by this very sick *thing*.
It doesn't deserve to be called a human being
SparkPlug wrote: | Maximum credit has to go to the Admin's here for getting this site up and running again with the minimum of delay - and also for putting up an intermediate message (something which a certain other site took weeks to do!) |
Yes, very impressive they got it all back that quick!! *Standing Ovation*
SparkPlug wrote: | Still, there's nothing like a dose of deprivation (however brief) to gets us all pondering what would fill the void between waking and sleeping (apart from pretending to work!) should this site disappear permanently |
I hate nightmares
SparkPlug wrote: | ... perhaps now would be a good time to remember the DONATE link on the home page !
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I hope T22's account will be okay again soon.
Caroline _________________ All that matters doesn't mean a thing,
Without love for the sake of life... |
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xyphic Forum git
Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 2804 Location: Cambridge, UK
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Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 9:11 pm Post subject: |
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I'm going to be updating the site to the latest software in the next few minutes, so if things stop working briefly don't panic!!!!!!
Normal service will be resumed shortly. _________________ Puzzletome - Confusion now hath made his masterpiece! |
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xyphic Forum git
Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 2804 Location: Cambridge, UK
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Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 9:29 pm Post subject: |
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The updates have been applied. As before, please let me know if you experience any problems.
Now I think I might go ...
...or perhaps just _________________ Puzzletome - Confusion now hath made his masterpiece! |
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SparkPlug Because I can
Joined: 30 Jan 2004 Posts: 11973 Location: Here!
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Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 9:37 pm Post subject: |
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then
(well done on the smooth transition btw) |
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ASA Thou craven dread-bolted clotpole
Joined: 03 Feb 2004 Posts: 5221 Location: Adelaide, Australia
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Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 10:59 pm Post subject: |
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Glad to see it back in action, I had just finished reading Welcome to the hotel Puzzletomeia, when it happened, and I have been humming it all night. _________________ Alan
Puzzletome : It is a puzzle to me too |
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Shiz Pernicious and indubitate beggar
Joined: 10 Jun 2004 Posts: 366 Location: Middle of England, Ex-pat Scotland
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Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2005 1:39 am Post subject: |
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Nice one keeping it all going guys.
Does make you feel at the thought of PT just disappearing though - not just the puzzles but the other site members too.
Hope you all know your company is appreciated! _________________ Banging one's head against the wall seldom results in the answer falling out. |
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