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Re: Virus or Trojan on the Forum?
« Reply #30 on: May 01, 2009, 05:19:33 AM »
Quote from: The Angel Yeratel on May 01, 2009, 05:18:40 AM
I hope it's not sneaking onto the server from something like posting links or images here.
Naw. I think it was a PHP code exploit. I've done the plugging I can.
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Re: Virus or Trojan on the Forum?
« Reply #31 on: May 01, 2009, 05:26:44 AM »
Quote from: iago on May 01, 2009, 05:19:33 AM
Naw. I think it was a PHP code exploit. I've done the plugging I can.
Great job, staying up until this time of the morning to fix it. I'd say your boss should double your salary, but you're him.
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Re: Virus or Trojan on the Forum?
« Reply #32 on: May 01, 2009, 05:28:22 AM »
Quote from: The Angel Yeratel on May 01, 2009, 05:26:44 AM
Great job, staying up until this time of the morning to fix it. I'd say your boss should double your salary, but you're him.
Buy your next Butcher item through the Jim-Butcher.Com store, and you'll help him do that. ;)
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Re: Virus or Trojan on the Forum?
« Reply #33 on: May 01, 2009, 05:30:02 AM »
Quote from: iago on May 01, 2009, 05:28:22 AM
Buy your next Butcher item through the Jim-Butcher.Com store, and you'll help him do that. ;)
You got it.  :)
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Re: Virus or Trojan on the Forum?
« Reply #34 on: May 02, 2009, 05:33:58 PM »
Virus intrusion happened again. Scrubbed it out again. This time I've taken a few more steps -- turned off writability of the php files, and made sure PHP *itself* was upgraded to the latest version -- the system my provider stuck me on was on a version of PHP that was a year out of date (5.2.6 instead of the current 5.2.9). 

If the virus crops up again after this, I'll have to consider a multi-day shut-down and a move to a new provider.
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Re: Virus or Trojan on the Forum?
« Reply #35 on: May 02, 2009, 05:41:59 PM »
Well, that's a pain in the a$$.   :P
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Re: Virus or Trojan on the Forum?
« Reply #36 on: May 02, 2009, 05:53:24 PM »
Thanks again for all your hard work, Fred. Sorry this is being such a PITA for you right now!
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Re: Virus or Trojan on the Forum?
« Reply #37 on: May 02, 2009, 05:54:35 PM »
Yell at the provider. If nothing else, it'll be soothingly therapeutic for you. ;D
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Re: Virus or Trojan on the Forum?
« Reply #38 on: May 02, 2009, 06:15:36 PM »
Although I would have major withdrawals, if you think you need to take down the site to fix it, we'll cope!

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Re: Virus or Trojan on the Forum?
« Reply #39 on: May 02, 2009, 06:17:16 PM »
Speak for yourself, Bookie. ;D Something like that will probably put me back on my meds!  :D



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Re: Virus or Trojan on the Forum?
« Reply #40 on: May 02, 2009, 06:22:51 PM »
Yeah, this morning, I started trying to figure out how many people I could still contact if the forum were down for long.  :P
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Re: Virus or Trojan on the Forum?
« Reply #41 on: May 02, 2009, 08:00:59 PM »
LOL! So did I!!

I realize there aren't many!  :'(
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Re: Virus or Trojan on the Forum?
« Reply #42 on: May 02, 2009, 09:25:18 PM »
Nope, almost all of the contact I've had outside the messages in the forums has been PMs here, not emails.  I've only got about two people from here in my address book.
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Re: Virus or Trojan on the Forum?
« Reply #43 on: May 02, 2009, 11:30:12 PM »
I spent much of the morning browsing the web for an alternate TDF forum to hang out on in case this one went south. Glad it's back! Thanks for all the hard work, Fred!
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Re: Virus or Trojan on the Forum?
« Reply #44 on: May 04, 2009, 02:56:17 PM »
I'm keenly interested in making sure the community stays alive and in contact with one another. Whenever possible, I will minimize the downtime this part of the site has -- my ideal scenarios would suggest any major issue should get sorted in under 48 hours.
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