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Forum hacked, now trying to rebuild

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Category: Web Wiz Web App Support Forums
Forum Name: Web Wiz Forums
Forum Description: Support forum for Web Wiz Forums application.
URL: https://forums.webwiz.net/forum_posts.asp?TID=22175
Printed Date: 08 April 2026 at 12:06pm
Software Version: Web Wiz Forums 12.08 - https://www.webwizforums.com

Topic: Forum hacked, now trying to rebuild

Posted By: electricd7
Subject: Forum hacked, now trying to rebuild
Date Posted: 11 December 2006 at 2:44pm

Hello,

We have been running WebWiz forums for a couple of years, and this weekend it was hacked. Some of the files were changed so I have redownloaded a fresh copy and was attempting to set it back up using the old DB (30k posts). I downloaded the latest version, but I think i may have been on version 7 possibly? Anyway, i setup the DB section and then tried running msSQL_server_setup.asp which gave me a bunch of errors because the tables already existed. Now when I go to the forums, I get this message:

Microsoft OLE DB Provider for SQL Server error '80040e14'

Invalid column name 'ID'.

/forums/functions/functions_date_time_format.asp, line 78

Can anyone help me?? Thanks in advance!

ED7

Replies:

Posted By: Mikey
Date Posted: 11 December 2006 at 2:46pm

Take a copy of your og db and run the update tool against it. then try and connect again

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Handyman man?

Posted By: electricd7
Date Posted: 11 December 2006 at 2:50pm

Pardon my ignorance, but what is the update tool?

Posted By: electricd7
Date Posted: 11 December 2006 at 3:00pm

nevermind..found it :)

Posted By: Mikey
Date Posted: 11 December 2006 at 3:02pm

Sorry i'll explain,
You mentioned before that you were previousley running version 7.x of the forum.

In order to use your Version 7 DB with version 8 forum you need to download the 7.x to 8.x database convertor tool from the download page.

Once downloaded follow the instructions to update your old database and upgrade to Version 8, this may be the problem your having.

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Handyman man?

Posted By: Mikey
Date Posted: 11 December 2006 at 3:02pm

Haha cool :)

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Handyman man?