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MadDog 
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 Posted: 23 September 2004 at 6:43pm |
>> So you think they automagically get the forum going??
Actually Yes, hehe. I know when i first found WWF i didnt read any readme file. I now wish i did, because i got hacked. That tought me a pretty good lession.
All you really have to do is upload the forum and its ready. Thats probably one of the problems because it makes newbies think its that easy when in fact there is more to it.
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dpyers
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Posted: 23 September 2004 at 6:57pm |
Reminds me - was shown an article from some national news mag talking about how you could get 20,000 zombie pc's for $2,000.
I heard from one guy who did a traffic analysis for a small-mid sized isp that was getting complaints of spam from it's network. Come to find out a couple of thousand clients had malware on their pc that would send 20-30 spams an hour - not enough to raise alarms anywhere, but enough to be profitable.
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Posted: 23 September 2004 at 7:06pm |
 MadDog wrote:
>> So you think they automagically get the forum going??
Actually Yes, hehe. I know when i first found WWF i didnt read any readme file. I now wish i did, because i got hacked. That tought me a pretty good lession.
All you really have to do is upload the forum and its ready. Thats probably one of the problems because it makes newbies think its that easy when in fact there is more to it.
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Got to agree with you there. I loaded wwf up first, then read the directions - a little knowledge is a dangerous thing - lol. Even now, I'll load the access version of a new forum version just to play with it and don't care if I get hacked. Good and bad points to being easy to install.
EDIT: Perhaps it would be better if the mdb file were not "pre-intalled" by the zip but had it's own procedure for installation.
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xeerex
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Posted: 23 September 2004 at 8:35pm |
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So both of you already knew about WRITE permissions on the database or
your whole site had em? You also knew what the default login/pass was?
Actually, I read the readme, but I already knew what "above" root meant
too....
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MadDog
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Posted: 23 September 2004 at 8:54pm |
The host i had it on (no longer up) was set so that all directories had read/write permissions so i never had to look at the documentation until i was hacked 
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Posted: 23 September 2004 at 9:00pm |
Well that's typical...You guys are trying to force me to say all computer users are dumba--es aren't ya?????
(in the case of your prior host it appears they qualify) 
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Posted: 23 September 2004 at 9:01pm |
Yup, im a dumbass. But now at least i read the readme files that are in the scripts
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Posted: 23 September 2004 at 9:04pm |
md wrote:
Yup, im a dumbass. |
OMG -- I'm gonna frame that on my wall now!!
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