"Account Suspended"

[Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP)]

FOLLOWUP:

It seems whatever's gotten in here is now striking at 15 past the hour, each hour, leading me to suspect it's a buried script somewhere. I'm still working on finding and isolating the little sumbitch, so far without luck.

I'll keep you posted, but in the meantime, just mind 15 past each hour!

G.

[Brian Gough]

Geoff,

Until the last couple of months I have never had a major problem accessing the MLU Forum from either of my locations. Recently it has been bad, but yesterday was the worst, with various "account suspended" and "cancelled" notices showing up at all 4 of the log in points.

Good luck in tracking down the problem.

Brian

[Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP)]

Thanks Brian.... this is a nasty one. I've filed tickets with both the hosting service people and the software providers, and I hope one or another can help. Methinks it's a trojan which has been written to deliberately take down this domain to "punish" us for...??? I don't know but it has my full attention.

I do know that this evening (EST) I will be taking the whole thing down to upgrade regardless... I'll give everyone as much notice as possible. I'm just sorry for this 15 minutes past the hour thing - I know it's frustrating!

[Alex Blair (RIP)]

Originally Posted by Geoff Winnington-Ball

Thanks Brian.... this is a nasty one. I've filed tickets with both the hosting service people and the software providers, and I hope one or another can help. Methinks it's a trojan which has been written to deliberately take down this domain to "punish" us for...??? I don't know but it has my full attention.

I do know that this evening (EST) I will be taking the whole thing down to upgrade regardless... I'll give everyone as much notice as possible. I'm just sorry for this 15 minutes past the hour thing - I know it's frustrating!

Jif
I just noticed it yesterday...I'm in here a couple of times a day...
I think it's the damned COMMIES...
Have a Ripple or two and get them rotten suckers..Too bad you couldn't do a reverse program that would go to the sourse and give them a good dose of the clap..!!
That would smart..
Keep up the great effort..This will get you a MID for sure..
Brother Al

[cliff]

happened here local Queensland time of about 5am yesterday November 3 and it is only this morning 4:15 am that I have gained access again.

[Keith Webb]

How dare they meddle with our forum.

I've send an email to many of the Australian members to let them know what's happening when the forum is down.

Best of luck in finding it Jif.

[Alex Blair (RIP)]

Originally Posted by Geoff Winnington-Ball

Thanks Brian.... this is a nasty one. I've filed tickets with both the hosting service people and the software providers, and I hope one or another can help. Methinks it's a trojan which has been written to deliberately take down this domain to "punish" us for...??? I don't know but it has my full attention.

I do know that this evening (EST) I will be taking the whole thing down to upgrade regardless... I'll give everyone as much notice as possible. I'm just sorry for this 15 minutes past the hour thing - I know it's frustrating!

Jif
I just noticed it yesterday...I'm in here a couple of times a day...
I think it's the damned COMMIES...
Have a Ripple or two and get them rotten suckers..Too bad you couldn't do a reverse program that would go to the source and give them a good dose of the clap..!!
That would smart..
Keep up the great effort..This will get you a MID for sure..
Brother Al

[Ryan]

The best of luck Jif to you and the others trying to tackle this attack.
Thanks to Keefy for the "heads up" via email.

One thing I did notice was that I got " account suspended" notification and " contact the webmaster/ provider @ class-five.com. But this was when I tried to log in via: www.mapleleafup.org/forums.
Is that strange or normal?

All the best again.

[aj.lec]

Best of luck with it Jif
bring back capital punishment
some "people" really are a waste of oxygen
That message came up when i went to log in on Saturday night (7pm Australian time) ,sunday and again this morning

[matilda IIA]

Hi Guys

I have the same details as Ryan....

How very frustrating.

Kind regards
Matt

[Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP)]

1. OK, it looks like the problem is partially solved anyway. Someone had either dumped or hijacked an old phpBB script on the server to send out vast amounts of spam, which was locking up the processor and causing us to be automatically suspended. I believe that's been dealt with.

2. Regardless of the above, we're still under assault which is why it's functioning so slowly right now. I'm still looking into that.

3. This evening (EST) I will be taking down the Forum for a couple of hours in order to upgrade from 3.6.8 to 3.7.3. This will NOT be a repeat of the fiasco last time!! However, be advised we WILL see downtime because of it. The software provider advises that this may well cut out the spammers almost completely as well as fix the database error problems. We shall see.

4. Don't worry about the class-five.com thingy. That belongs to me as well and is the shadow domain which holds all of the virtual sites which I host. My contact details remain the same.

5. More to follow as it develops. Thanks for your understanding!

Jif