just tried psrtutorial ,forum for some reason it has been shut down for security reasons,any idea?,mike

Just tried it at 3:50 CDT and it is working fine.
DonM

hi don, just tried the FORUM again ,still problems

Oh I see, it's the forum part that's down. The rest of the site is o.k. My mistake.
Don

Mike, clean up your temp internet files, and cookies, then try it again..

The forum part of the tutorial page is down on my computer too.
DonM

The forum message says:

"The Following PHPBB Forum was disabled for security reasons. If you are the webmaster of this forum please contact support for more detail."

I am 90% sure that forum has been hacked. Several months ago, PHPBB forum software, excellent software was hacked and hundreds (thousands) of forums were wiped out by the virus. This might be that virus if they did not update their forum software to fix the bug. Or a new one.

Reason I saw this is it says "If you are the webmaster of this forum..."

The webmaster would know about it if he took it down for a security reason. In other words, the webmaster is the one who would take it down. That doesn't make sense.

I hope it's not true, else he could have lost his entire forum.

The problem is that Joe Waters is
on vacation in the Colorado Rockies.
It's probable that He don't know about the forum shut down.

Chico


[This message has been edited by ChicoBrasil (edited 07-05-2005).]

It's possible he invoked some kind of default 'on vacation' message via the webmaster management console but chose the wrong message.

EDIT: Also is possible his host shut down his forum because a new version has been released which fixed a potential security leak and maybe he has not updated, so, they shut down his forum.

In fact, I think this is what has happened. His host shut down his forum because of what I wrote above or because some kind of security breach occurred and nobody could respond to their inquiries since he is gone.

[This message has been edited by SemiLiveMusic (edited 07-05-2005).]

I have now returned from a week in the Rockies (and can finally breath again) and I see all these forum messages. It appears a warning went out right after I left, so I didn't see it. The phpBB once more has security problems and an upgrade is required. The upgrade, of course, wasn't done since I wasn't here. So, the BBS was taken off line. I will be contacting the ISP and getting it back up and running shortly, although I may be switching to a different software package, one with less security problems.

That's really too bad about PHPBB, what a great value... FREE. Open source project. I guess when you have thousands of global programmers looking at the code, they can find security breaches on just about any softare.

But if you have to change, a fave of mine is Infopop forum software.


[This message has been edited by SemiLiveMusic (edited 07-09-2005).]