Important CS.com forum upgrade - forum will be down

[Speed Racer]

http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,119029,00.asp

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/12/21/santy_worm

http://www.kaspersky.com/news?id=156681162

I see that we have 2.0.4.

Probably good to upgrade since it appears to be a vuln. in 'viewtopic.php' which we definitely use.

Regards,
Sten


A worm which attacks web servers running the popular phpBB discussion forum software to deface vulnerable systems spread widely across the net today.

The Santy worm searches for vulnerable forum sites using Google. When a suitable target is found, Santy uses a remote exploit to gain access and deface it before resuming its scanning activity. Content on defaced sites is replaced by the following text string.

"This site is defaced!!!" NeverEverNoSanity

Apart from defacing infected sites with this text, the worm has no payload. It will not infect PC used to view infected sites. F-Secure, the Finnish anti-virus firmm estimates there more than one million sites use the vulnerable phpBB software, of which tens of thousands have already been defaced. Users of phpBB are advised to update to version 2.0.11. ®


Thanks to Sten for that heads-up.

Based on what I've read, this needs to be done like, yesterday. I've downloaded the new version of phpBB2 2.0.11 and I'm reading about the upgrade. Forum is 100% backed up as of about an hour ago, so that should be fine. I'm reading about the process on the phpBB2 website right now - there goes my evening I guess. :roll:

You will notice that the forum will be on/off line this evening. Please be patient...I'm not about to lose all our info, just because some script kiddie FAG wrote a worm that exploits older versions of phpBB2.

*crosses fingers* 8)

[dogstar]

go sidman go :)

thanks for sacrificing your time, im sure i speak for all of us when i say that we appreciate it.

[Speed Racer]

Ok...

That was fun/interesting. The upgrade to version 2.0.11 is completed. Everything is backed up just in case this thing barfs.

If you guys find any hiccups/problems...please send me a PM, don't post the problems in any thread. If you send the problem directly to me, it's a lot easier for me to manage it.

Thanks!


PS: Is it just my imagination, or does the forum seem to be running a little faster too? Changing from page to page looks to be a little quicker...hahaha, well...we all like our Supras to go faster so (heh) why not the forum too, right?

[Malibyte]

Thanks for staying on top of this, Stephen. We never did get together for that beer in Vegas....I'll buy you two at the Yosemite meet - since you're not getting paid for maintaining the forum!

Bob

[Lino]

i like the upgrade, keep up the good work!!

[Crocket]

Forum does seem a little faster, good job.

Sonny

[MkIISuperSupra]

I agree that it does seem to be running faster even on dial up.

Also seems to be completely AOhell compatible.

Leslie

[Gage006]

working great, love the couple of new graphical changes.

[Speed Racer]

So you figured out that when you mouse over a topic or post, you can click anywhere in the highlighted area, instead of clicking on the link itself right? That's a custom mod I installed last night after I finished all the upgrading BS.

It turns the entire cell into a clickable link. I thought it would help speed everyone's forum surfing up...and make it simpler. Glad you like it.

[Donn29]

dial up does seem to be a bit faster and the cell link can be annoying but :confused:

:rant:

also i do find that highlighting anything in the post a reply text box is diffucult. very hard to tell what is highlighted. and some times ive seen it highlight stuff by itself... :confused: