data loss and old forum
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data loss and old forum
Dear members,
I have become aware today that quite a few threads have vanished from the archive. It is possible that these threads have for some reason not been transferred to the new forum. If this is the case, threads in other categories of the forum might have been affected as well. Alternatively, there might be other reasons. Any help to solve this mystery is highly appreciated.
I have reinstalled the old forum software. You can access it here: http://www.magiclibrary.net/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl There you can have a look at the full archive and you can read your private messages. Please do not use the old forum more than necessary to avoid conflicts with my webspace provider.
I have become aware today that quite a few threads have vanished from the archive. It is possible that these threads have for some reason not been transferred to the new forum. If this is the case, threads in other categories of the forum might have been affected as well. Alternatively, there might be other reasons. Any help to solve this mystery is highly appreciated.
I have reinstalled the old forum software. You can access it here: http://www.magiclibrary.net/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl There you can have a look at the full archive and you can read your private messages. Please do not use the old forum more than necessary to avoid conflicts with my webspace provider.
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This thread provides some recommendations for transfering from YaBB to phpBB. Perhapes there's something there that'll help you.
If you did do the installation in the manner described above, then perhapes the script timed out before it got a chance to finish. The above states that you need to alter the timeouts, but that's not something that can really be done on most shared hosts...
If you did do the installation in the manner described above, then perhapes the script timed out before it got a chance to finish. The above states that you need to alter the timeouts, but that's not something that can really be done on most shared hosts...
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It's not spam. It's an attempted cross site scripting exploit. Only works in IE and this particular one only works on phpBB 2.0.16 and earlier, if I'm not mistaken.
As for what cross site scripting exploits are... they basically allow attackers to run arbitrary javascript on peoples computers. The most malicious thing they can do through it, afaik, is get cookies (or session id's from the referer information, but that's far less likely to work). With cookies, an attacker could, in theory, log in as the victim. Thankfully, phpBB makes this difficult even if you do have the cookies.
Anyway, I don't believe AnTiSoZeL is attempting to do any cookie / session id stealing.
Also... should guest posting be enabled in this forum? 'cause I note that he posted that as a Guest...
As for what cross site scripting exploits are... they basically allow attackers to run arbitrary javascript on peoples computers. The most malicious thing they can do through it, afaik, is get cookies (or session id's from the referer information, but that's far less likely to work). With cookies, an attacker could, in theory, log in as the victim. Thankfully, phpBB makes this difficult even if you do have the cookies.
Anyway, I don't believe AnTiSoZeL is attempting to do any cookie / session id stealing.
Also... should guest posting be enabled in this forum? 'cause I note that he posted that as a Guest...
Hi Matt.TerraFrost wrote:Also... should guest posting be enabled in this forum? 'cause I note that he posted that as a Guest...
That's the second time this happens,I notify Ralph the first time and that was his answer:
So,I hope that Ralph will find another solution as it's not fixed.When I created the new board, I forgot to insure that only registered members could post there. I have fixed it in the meanwhile.
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I'm actually Jim ;)dragsamou wrote:Hi Matt.TerraFrost wrote:Also... should guest posting be enabled in this forum? 'cause I note that he posted that as a Guest...
Anyway, heh:
Guest posting has to be disabled on a per-forum basis and I suspect that it's only been disabled for a few of them.That's the second time this happens,I notify Ralph the first time and that was his answer:So,I hope that Ralph will find another solution as it's not fixed.When I created the new board, I forgot to insure that only registered members could post there. I have fixed it in the meanwhile.
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