and the winner is Jester :) (and seriously what happened)

Post by **smorison** » Mon May 09, 2005 9:32 pm

he was the first back online on the website...

for those who saw a post from uniquefto you can disregard it

turned out i had managed to create myself 2 accounts under this login so it couldn't authenticate me.... hahaha oops...

anyways as far as i can tell this wasn't a hack attack or anything like that... the forums session tables were locked, by what i don't know... as there we no active sessions... as it was only session tables their contents was dropped and the server came back up...

sorry for the delay but i was offsite all day earning money so i couldn't get here to resolve the problem. Thanks for your patience

CSV · Post by **CSV** » Mon May 09, 2005 10:45 pm

Can I be a winner too??

WildRide · Post by **WildRide** » Tue May 10, 2005 10:26 am

I just got some nasty debug messages after trying to send a PM.
Perhaps not quite there yet

WR

FTO338 · Post by **FTO338** » Tue May 10, 2005 11:26 am

Yeah same here, i can reply some members PM, but not others

afterburner · Post by **afterburner** » Tue May 10, 2005 11:42 am

I get an error when posting - something about SMTP? But the posts seem to appear fine - just the error appears as well...

EDIT - seems to be fixed now, how typical

EDIT #2 - it IS still happening, but only in some sections. Eg it happens in the 'FTO Help' section, but not in the 'General' section...

Here's the error:

Could not connect to smtp host : 13 : Permission denied

DEBUG MODE

Line : 150
File : /home/ftoaus/public_html/includes/smtp.php

CSV · Post by **CSV** » Tue May 10, 2005 4:57 pm

Im having the same problem as afterburner

Post by **smorison** » Tue May 10, 2005 11:55 pm

there are heaps of issues and definately a hacker is attempting to have some fun we've found more trojans on the site again...

its got to the point where i'm probably going to have to shutdown this site until we can patch it up and get it safe so it will not effect the other paying customers, who are getting the sh*ts

CSV · Post by **CSV** » Wed May 11, 2005 5:49 pm

So how long would it be shut down for? Any idea?

Post by **smorison** » Thu May 12, 2005 2:12 pm

i worked literally all night and most of the day on tuesday night wed morning to fix the issues...

went to work really cranky and grumpy on 2 hours worth of sleep... its all patched now and the downtime has been limited to that period.

now all i need to do is catch up on sleep

afterburner · Post by **afterburner** » Thu May 12, 2005 3:43 pm

Is it just me, or has the font on the front page of the forums changed or gotten smaller?

Not a complaint, just wondering...

Post by **smorison** » Thu May 12, 2005 8:12 pm

yeah its changed... i haven't had time to redo the theme yet...

i'm still hoping someone's going to put their hand up and say they want to do a new phpnuke theme for the site.