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Re: Forum and website status

Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2014 3:32 am
by MacGaden
Scumback Speakers wrote:
VelvetGeorge wrote:Still tweaking some things, pruning some things. Found some corrupted files. Might actually lose all uploads to date, which will be terrible. I hate to lose all the pics and diagrams posted over the years. But, I'm afraid this is a real possibility. Corrupt files may indicate infected files and I can't take that risk. It's very likely that the attack which took us down was initiated from an upload.

george
This is why members need their own photo hosting accounts, and you need to stop hosting any pics. The files/pics/diagrams can have imbedded trojan horses/malware that you don't know about until they're unzipped/unpacked and expanded.

George, you can't host files for members, it's site suicide.

Scumback Speakers wrote:George, you can't host files for members, it's site suicide.
And that is is just the way it is now... Jim may be a Scumback, but this he got right... :wink:

Re: Forum and website status

Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2014 8:10 am
by 5150loveeddie
hey VG, 10 years ago I both your first 100w kit, nice to see your ok George, we have a bible here....!!

Re: Forum and website status

Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2014 2:40 pm
by demonufo
5150loveeddie wrote:hey VG, 10 years ago I both your first 100w kit, nice to see your ok George, we have a bible here....!!
Dude, just curious as to the content of your signature...

Just wanted to be sure that it was actually you yourself that put it there, as it looks very much like spam from here.
My apologies if it isn't, but we can't be too careful now.

Re: Forum and website status

Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2014 2:29 pm
by VelvetGeorge
There may be continued downtime and/or locked sections while we scan the database. Any files discovered to be corrupt or suspect will be deleted. If you find threads that are missing uploads, they were likely lost in this crisis. Uploads will no longer be allowed on the forum, so we'll try to link to the info whenever possible.
The wiki is also no longer open for uploads. I'm leaving it up for now, strictly as an archive. But will have to find a safer solution for hosting that data sooner than later.

george

Re: Forum and website status

Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2014 1:41 pm
by 5150loveeddie
demonufo wrote:
5150loveeddie wrote:hey VG, 10 years ago I both your first 100w kit, nice to see your ok George, we have a bible here....!!
Dude, just curious as to the content of your signature...

Just wanted to be sure that it was actually you yourself that put it there, as it looks very much like spam from here.
My apologies if it isn't, but we can't be too careful now.
I did put that link there, no worries, it's all about some good stuff for your health..!!

Re: Forum and website status

Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2014 2:21 pm
by NY Chief
Yahoo!!! Metro's back!!! :clap:

I was getting board having nobody to argue about EVH with!!! :wink:

Good to everybody back!

Re: Forum and website status

Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2014 6:02 pm
by garbeaj
I've seen a few threads are locked...I would imagine you are still working on these and they'll probably be open when you migrate to another server. The threads that I had posted in that are locked do contain video and audio clips and jpegs of TAB and other pictures. I've always used Imageshack to host the images that I post, so I hope that is still a good site to use?

Thanks again for everything George...you deserve an award, a major award!

Re: Forum and website status

Posted: Fri Feb 21, 2014 3:02 pm
by VelvetGeorge
Expect some random downtime over the next week. We will be activating the new server soon. If I get an exact date and time for the change I'll post in advance.
When we are back up everything should be faster and more secure. If the forum needs additional modules installed, like for posting images that are hosted offsite and so on, we'll get those installed also.

george