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coralfang
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Location: van island, bc
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Wed Dec 22, 2004 4:15 am |
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What happened today? I tried to come here and it gave me a message that the site had a bug... I can't remember exactly what it was called, but the screen was red with an error message. |
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Alistair
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Wed Dec 22, 2004 5:59 am |
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I saw that too. Apparently they got hit by a virus/worm which has been spreading around through a vulnerability in phpbb forum software (no joke). Basically, any server running an old version (like older than a month or so) of phpbb for their forums can be compromised, and the virus deletes most stuff on the server and replaces it with that message you saw. The good admins here apparently are prudent about backing their site up -- good on ya, guys. 
It's a pretty crazy worm, it actually searches google automatically to find more vulnerable forums so it can infect those servers too. I run a phpbb forum myself, so I recently installed the fix on my forums which is how I know about it, hehe.
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