Downtime notice

[Dinner]

The front page just got hacked a 5th time and it claims some how a trojan got uploaded.

[Dinner]

Slowwie: opening the edit link in a new tab works.

Not in firefox. It opens up the edit frame but none of the text is there. Same thing with "reply with quote".

[Dinner]

Glad the site is backup. What may Apolyton a target? Just because or is there something more sinister?

I obviously don't know for sure but it seems they're using a well known exploit in the forum code and poly just hasn't bothered to keep up to date with the security patches thus making us an easy target. Or that would be my guess anyway.

[N35t0r]

Slowwie: opening the edit link in a new tab works.

[SlowwHand]

It has nothing to do with the current conversation, but you can't edit a post for crap.

[self biased]

what the ****, plomp? Did you leave the keys in it and running While you ran in to grab a pack of smokes?

[Krill]

Why not just delete Apolyton?

[Robert]

We were hacked again, I did a restore.
Working on a permanent solution.

[Lorizael]

I'm not an uncle and I'm not having this problem. QED?

[Uncle Sparky]

I'm getting a similar notice... maybe its an 'uncle' thing? I don't plan to download it, but it won't go away. Has changing hosts changed the requirements for accessing pages?

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

Okay, two new ones - I'm suddenly getting this annoying pop-up at the bottom of every page informing me that "This webpage wants to run the following ad-on: 'SVG Veiwer 3.0 for Netscape' from 'Adobe Systems Inc. (unverified publisher)'.

I'm not running Netscape, and there's not button to tell the pop-up to go play in traffic, so it's there on every. single. page.


-Also, attachments don't seem to be working, so I can't show you a screenie.

[astrologix]

Since the downtime, it seems that one can't edit ancient posts.

It's me or something like that is general?

Thanks.
-astro

[China (DoB)]

Glad the site is backup. What may Apolyton a target? Just because or is there something more sinister?

[Dinner]

Nice to hear from you, Robert

I suggest the next time a similar thing occurs, causing a downtime, you or Martin send emails to the staff members to maintain contact and to inform about. It would prevent some anxiety

Maybe a facebook group so people can see what is going on even if the website gets hacked or is down.

[snoopy369]

Indeed (and pop on in to one of the other fora, like CFC, which have threads about most downtimes).