What a night - Please report problems here

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For those that didn't guess, we had a hacker that made a mess out of things on us sometime after 4:00PM Eastern Time. Thanks to Lawren for sending me an e-mail right away as I was able to get the site turned off and changed some access rights and passwords to control just how much damage was done.

Still, it took about six hours to manually look at the site to make sure that that no data was lost from my last backup and to ensure that none of the altered files are still on the website. I weill be working on the site for a few days to put in place some additional security measures but this was a nasty "bot" that did this and they really hit a lot of pages in a very brief period of time.

If you see anything that is not working, please point it out here and I will try to fix things as quickly as I can...

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Header error:

Warning: unserialize() expects parameter 1 to be string, array given in /includes/vba_cmps_include_bottom.php on line 240

Warning: unserialize() expects parameter 1 to be string, array given in /includes/vba_cmps_include_bottom.php on line 241 

It is not on every page however?

FIXED!

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Custom Avatars are not working (TonyG's as an example)

Fixed

[Fern Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Fern]

Sorry to hear this happened and caused you so much extra work. Thank you for all the time you put in to do this.

Fern

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Thanks. I was overdue for a site redo and thankfully I have been keeping on top of backups or this could have been much worse. The irony is I had to use a backup of the files on the server from last April as the hard drive with the last backup which was done in July is locked in the safety deposit box in the bank.

Next time I need to remember to do two backups so one is available and secure

[Steamboat Bill Banned Find all posts View Profile Close Steamboat Bill]

I am on a few different vbulletin bbs sites.

What exactly happened and how can it be prevented?

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Not sure but I don't think this is a vbulletin issue. They were working at an FTP level!

Another bug that needs to get fixed: hug smilies are missing





and the sheep one too





Fixed

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So sorry you have to do this repair work. I really marvel that there are those that take pleasure in messing up a site they have no interest in except to cause problems----sort of like graffiti I guess.

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Timeshare Forums - Powered by vBulletin does not redirect to here anymore

FIXED

[Sydney Contributor - Bronze Find all posts View Profile Close Sydney]

Thanks for your hard work Ken!

[falmouth3 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close falmouth3]

Thanks!! I appreciate your hard work.

Sue

[biskits Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close biskits]

Thanks!!!

Ken

Another thank you for all the time you put into this forum
Best wishes,
Paul

[Kay H Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Kay H]

Ken,
You are amazing. Thanks so much for all your hard work.

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No really, Frank and all the great staff on the site really run the place. I am really just here to oil the machine now and then or in this case sometimes I need to swap out an engine too.

If anybody sees anything strange, I do need to know as Lawren really saved the day on this one by sending me an e-mail so I was able to get on and turn off the site to prevent more damage and to allow me to change the locks.

There will be more updates comming soon.

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Thanks

Ken,

I want to add my Thanks. Great Job.

Nancy