"Account Suspended"

[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

[Les Freathy]

Well done Jif i had been having a few problems in the main telling me the site was unavailable, Now i can supply the wall and part of the fireing squad who has the guns and bullets i thing double barrel would be best to make sure we get rid of the b------s
cherrs
Les

[Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP)]

WITHIN THE HOUR, I am going to take down this forum and upgrade as indicated before. We've been hit harder than ever since late yesterday afternoon, and the hosting folks can't figure it out. Hopefully the new iteration will help. I will do my best to keep you informed, but in the meantime, use my email address of sunrayniner -at- sympatico.ca for info. One way or another we'll get through this.

Wish me luck. This has been a bad one.

G.