Hacker destroyd my forum
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Topic: Hacker destroyd my forum
Posted By: kees
Subject: Hacker destroyd my forum
Date Posted: 02 March 2003 at 3:14pm
| Do anyone know how I can prevent my forum against hackers? The hacker changed my admin password and had replaced all the topics. One of the users even claims that she was receiving an virus mail after she sent an email to me? Is there anyone who can help me with this? |
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Posted By: Ignorance
Date Posted: 02 March 2003 at 3:21pm
| One thing that they say alot of people don't do is rename the database file to something other than wwForum.mdb. Just make sure to change line 165 in "common.asp" and line 95 in "admin/common.asp" to reflect the new name you've given it. Hope this helps. |
Posted By: faubo
Date Posted: 02 March 2003 at 4:42pm
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again... Read the documentation people. Suggestion for Borg: Borg, maybe you could not complete the path in the common.asp files... leave with another DB name, make people open the file to write themselves and there put a comment line saying to change the DB name... Or... put a thread and a post in the DBs already, so when people upload and see the forums for the first time there will be a thread "Security - ATENTION - MUST READ" and inside you put what you have in the documentation... actually you could put a thread for each documentation topic... at least people will see them, and later they can just delete it. ------------- http://www.conhecerparaconservar.org - I don't know how to make you click here |
Posted By: xeerex
Date Posted: 02 March 2003 at 5:59pm
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======================================= Were any of these basic steps taken? |
Posted By: djscout
Date Posted: 02 March 2003 at 10:40pm
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or simply did you change the default admin passwords? ------------- ++ jim.. |
Posted By: kees
Date Posted: 03 March 2003 at 3:32am
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Thanks for the suggestions it is a great help for me. I will read the documentation now (little bit late The name of the admin and his password was already changed by me.
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) and rename and move the database. Posted By: djscout
Date Posted: 03 March 2003 at 6:30am
remember it's there for a reason and PLEASE read the security, the man who wrote the security is the one who built the forums. He knows best ------------- ++ jim.. |
Posted By: Mikael
Date Posted: 03 March 2003 at 10:14am
This is a very good idea, and it will save a lot of time for you borg! |
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