Virus or Trojan on the Forum?

[iago]

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.

[Yeratel]

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.

[iago]

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.

[Yeratel]

Buy your next Butcher item through the Jim-Butcher.Com store, and you'll help him do that.

You got it. 

[iago]

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was upgraded to the latest version -- the system my provider stuck me on was on a version of PHP that was a year out of date (5.2.6 instead of the current 5.2.9).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.

[Yeratel]

Well, that's a pain in the a$$.   

[Murphy's Stunt Double]

Thanks again for all your hard work, Fred. Sorry this is being such a PITA for you right now!

[Shecky]

Yell at the provider. If nothing else, it'll be soothingly therapeutic for you.

[BookLover♥]

Although I would have major withdrawals, if you think you need to take down the site to fix it, we'll cope!

*twitchtwitch*

[Murphy's Stunt Double]

Speak for yourself, Bookie. Something like that will probably put me back on my meds! 



(J/K)

[BookLover♥]

Yeah, this morning, I started trying to figure out how many people I could still contact if the forum were down for long. 

[Murphy's Stunt Double]

LOL! So did I!!

I realize there aren't many! 

[Yeratel]

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.

[Matrix Refugee (formerly Morraeon)]

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!

[iago]

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.