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Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by Leigh.

The forum has now been restored from my personal backup, which was taken just 2 days prior to the attack. Sadly, a few posts will still be missing :cry:

I'm still trying to determine exactly how they hacked the site and why my ISP restored an old backup, without my asking them to do so. They actually created the bigger problems!

Anyway, let's put this whole episode behind us and get back to PureBasic...

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Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by fweil.

Leigh,

Sure it was a f... hacking issue ? This may also be just a provider mistake. Anyway, you finally restored with a only 2 days gap. If would like to thank you for your bravery and stubbornness. You got over the worst.

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Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by Leigh.

It was originally hacked - It came up with "Red Eye - VoOdOo" (or something similar) on all of my default.asp pages! That was easy to sort out though, it was the ISP restore that that lost us two weeks worth of posts. :)

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Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by Berikco.
Originally posted by Leigh

It was originally hacked - It came up with "Red Eye - VoOdOo" (or something) on all of my defaul.asp pages! That was easy to sort out though, it was the ISP restore that that lost us two weeks worth of posts. :)
Thanks Leigh, looks a lot better now, i feel home again

How it was hacked, unpatched IIS, unneeded ida components installed, bad administrator pasword, unneeded admin shares, frontpage extensions and ftp access, AD activated ,....list is much to long to post here...
Here in Belgium, ISP with such problems is called ama.... :)


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Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by MrVainSCL.

Hi Leigh
Its nice to have some old topics back... but its really sad, that the new posted stuff (you know, i tried to restore some deleted stuff between 05.-20.Oct too) and esp. the new postings after the database crash are again no longer available... Thats a bit frustrated... Because was there no way to add the new postings to the old restored database?

Ok, now we have maybe nealy all old postings restored but for that we have lost all new postings... ;(((( And i dont have the time and motivation to post all my new stuff (bugs i.e.) again ;(

Maybe i am a bit childrish but please not i tried to write my old postings with bugs i.e. again and now i have to post it again (3rd time)? Atm no, i will learn for my exclamations...


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Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by MrVainSCL.

Just a small notice to Leigh
Maybe it would be nice to add on forum sites somewhere an official email link to contact you, if there are some troubles or whatever with the forum before guys are trying to restore stuff self or whatever! Thx! :wink:



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Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by Leigh.

Other than your recent posts, there weren't actually many new posts. Database merging was not an option on this occasion - Sorry.

In the 18 months the forums have been running, this has been the only serious incident! I've been working to improve the forum's performance and stability over the last month or so. I'm also looking to move to a more secure/faster service, but this doesn't come cheap. The PureBasic user base is moving at an alarming (but encouraging) rate, and the forums will need to grow accordingly. Unfortunately, the recent "hacking" was beyond my control - I had assumed that my ISP provided sufficient protection.

You can always contact me on [url]mailto:purebasic@curvesoftware.co.uk[/url]

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Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by Leigh.

>Maybe i am a bit childrish but please not i tried to write my old postings with bugs i.e. again and now i have to post it again (3rd time)?

That's not childish - We've all been inconvenienced by this little incident. Personally, it really p*ssed me off when it first happened and I lost motivation for a day or so...

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Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by MrVainSCL.

Hi Leigh
Ok i see and understand the problem you mean! I really respect your work and time you spent into this forum! Anyway good work with the restored database and in gernerall point! (I can live with a few deleted entries :wink:)

However, finally i know how to contact you personaly if something happen with the forum, thx! :wink: Keep on ya work...

PS: Maybe it makes sence to add you email on every page with a link "Contact Webmaster" or so!? :wink:


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Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by Fangbeast.

I remember asking you for a copy of the database contents a long time ago but I never actually thanked you for the hard work you do. I apologise for that. Without your forum to skulk through code to help me, I would never have gotten as far as I did. To date, I have written 8 applications!!

Thanks Leigh :):)

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Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by PB.

> We've all been inconvenienced by this little incident. Personally,
> it really p*ssed me off when it first happened and I lost motivation
> for a day or so...

Don't lose heart. I'm sorry that I was so eager to jump ship but I
seriously thought you were going to throw in the towel. These forums
are great and I'm sure without doubt that we all appreciate your work.


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Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by Leigh.

Shucks, thanks guys :)

It's good to be back to normal...

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Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by fred.

Thanks to have finally sorting it out, Leigh. Managing a forum isn't always an easy task.. As you use IIS (or the hosting company), it would be useful to look every week at security site to have the time to apply the patch before the really stupids 'script kiddiez'. A good site: http://online.securityfocus.com/microsoft or bugtraq.

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