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janus · Mage Joined: 29 Jun 2002 Posts: 464 Location: Issaquah, WA

You should probably update to phpBB 2.0.13. .11 has a couple major exploits, one of which was used to take out Pixelation the other day.

Don't you just love phpBB? What a great codebase! :D

Bjorn · Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 11:49 am Post subject:

Yeah, thanks for the reminder. I've already updated the phpBB board at The Mana World, and will try to do this one over the weekend. This one is a little more complicated to update because of my own changes. :-)

XMark · Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 6:41 am Post subject:

*sigh* and I so recently upgraded to 3.0.11 because someone hacked my site when it was an earlier version. I guess it's like the old saying "build a better mousetrap, and they'll just make better mice" or something to that effect.
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Hajo · Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 8:38 am Post subject:

Bjorn · Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2005 9:21 pm Post subject:

Well, we got lucky with nobody exploiting our board (I hope). The forums are now once again sealed tight (for the moment), cause I've updated them to 2.0.14. Just one month later than intended, heh.

Nephilim · Mage Joined: 20 Jun 2002 Posts: 414

Yeah, we got hacked through PHPbb a while ago, and had to do a complete server rebuild because they had installed some back doors on the server. Thats what you get if you don't patch within a day or two, I guess...

I have since deleted my PHPbb installations. It's not worth the hassle.
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Bjorn · Posted: Tue May 31, 2005 10:22 pm Post subject:

Well, an update was in order again. We're at 2.0.15 now.

janus · Mage Joined: 29 Jun 2002 Posts: 464 Location: Issaquah, WA

Nodtveidt · Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2005 4:23 am Post subject:

SMF is definately a cut above phpbb. I use it all the time now.
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Bjorn · Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2005 10:53 am Post subject:

Actually this site seems to automatically update phpBB as well, but it has only been giving problems, as the amount of integration between the main site and these forums is rather big. This includes user authentication, sessions, templates, bbcode and general database usage. Switching to anything else would be a major undertaking, so if you don't mind I'll just keep doing the manual updating from time to time. :-)

Also note that phpBB is under the GPL, whereas SMF is under some custom license requiring written permission for the distribution of any modified version and requires you to pay money to get the latest versions and yadayada.

janus · Mage Joined: 29 Jun 2002 Posts: 464 Location: Issaquah, WA

Nodtveidt · Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 5:09 am Post subject:

I've only had problems with two mods; one of them was a little insignificant mod which I don't remember which one it was...it wouldn't install into 1.03. The other mod with problems is the Arcade mod...the installer is chock full of errors and you have to do a lot of modifying to get it to install properly. Other than that, I've installed about 20 mods without problems on about 5 SMF installs.
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Tenshi · Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2005 5:00 pm Post subject:

... I just write my own.

- I heard about those problems. Someone used it to kill WomenGamers' forums also...

- Can anyone elaborate on what these hacks are, exactly? I don't think the amount of coding I did on my forums rivals phpBB's... but I don't want to be coding in any hacks...
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janus · Mage Joined: 29 Jun 2002 Posts: 464 Location: Issaquah, WA

Most of the hacks are just the result of phpBB using built-in php functions (many of which are insecure and/or badly designed).

Bjorn · Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2005 4:04 am Post subject:

Sorry for neglecting this for a while. Rest assured, the forum has now been upgraded from 2.0.15 to 2.0.18, which should bring it up to date as far as security is concerned again. It will mean all you people using autologin will need to login manually once, as they changed that system to be more secure.

Please report any errors you may encounter, as usual.