If my forum got hacked I'd dump it and start all over, to me it's no big deal. My forum sucks anyways .....(yers is a whole lot better than mine)
Exactly. I dont mind starting over. So what? It's just a forum, it can be refreshed. Nothing like starting from scratch! Sometimes it helps clear everything!
That's easy for you two to say since you're not talking about throwing away over four years' worth of posts and members over some idiot hacker. I don't know about you, but I would never let the hacker have the satisfaction of "winning" that easily, all while asking nearly 2000 members to sign up again. Besides, restoring the database was not much of a problem at all. The main problems were working with the tech support and rebuilding everything while plugging any possible security holes. I wasn't even complaining about being hacked in the first place, I was complaining that people were laughing about it, which is very rude and uncalled for after the trouble I went through.
I dont understand why everytime ya turn around some wank can break into to a forum that easily and beat the crud out of it. Where's the security?
There's no security on the net..no matter how hard you try LOL
Prior to this, The Technodrome Forums have never been hacked in nearly 6 years of being online. As long as you keep your forum software up to date, use strong passwords, and have a host who keeps their server software up to date, it's actually difficult to break into a forum. Both the hacking and the virus were actually attacks on the server themselves (not attacks on the site), so the hackers didn't care who they targeted. And both of them were caused by flaws with the security of the host's servers, which was something that was completely out of my hands. I did learn from my mistake, though, and will be inquiring about server security before signing up with any more hosts from now on.
I'd ask for a refund if it's that easy for someone to hack it. just ranting MHO....sorry.
I did get a full refund from that host after cancelling my account.
