"Account Suspended"

[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.

[Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP)]

Back in business after two days down. For now. I'm not gonna count my chickens but it looks good. I'll keep ya posted.....

[David_Hayward (RIP)]

Well done mate!

[Keith Webb]

Nice to see Maple Leaf UP again.

[Phil Waterman]

Hi Geoff

I've been going through with-drawl from not having my daily fix of CMP talk.

Thank you again for all the effort into trying to fix the problem. We all hope that this will take care of this type of a problem for the next few years.

Cheers Phil

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Geoff Winnington-Ball

Wish me luck. This has been a bad one.

Today's equivalent of Vimy's Ridge, eh?

Thanks for standing up and fight!

H.

[Paul Singleton]

Yes Geoff, thanks for keeping the site going. To bad that you couldn't send this plague back to the one that infected us!

Paul

[CWO (ret) Gilles Aubé]

Well done Geoff, it is good to be back on the best FORUM.

[Phil Waterman]

Hi All

Is any body having trouble with the thumbnail pictures incorporated in posting not the links but actually seeing the small pictures at the bottom of messages. I am not on all messages is this happening and it seems to be a mix of older messages and new.

Cheers Phil