This has happened to me twice since April, and my host is not exactly cheap (justhost.com)

On each occasion I discovered the settings.php had been altered to set the maintenance variable to 2. Simply editing that file to reset the variable to zero from the control panel fixed the problem.

What I would like to know is if there is a way to prevent my SMF installation from performing this irritating piece of terrorism ... or is it an issue to take up with the host?

On both occasions the error message email came in sets of 8 all time-stamped with the same second. I feel this is significant, because I have received isolated connection error emails in ones and twos without the forum being thrown into blank and uninformative maintenance mode.

Well, I've reported the problem already as a hacking report, but unfortunately it doesn't look like we've made any progress. The board is being hacked daily since a week or so with multiple files being replaced, now even Google picked up on it and marked it as malware.

The board in question: http://www.santharia.com/adv
Version: SMF 1.1.18

I've replaced various infected files again with working versions (as I did ca. 6 times already), so for now it looks ok for the next hours. But there's a security hole somewhere and they'll strike again for sure. Passwords have all been replaced, suspicious non-SMF files have been eliminated, log files have been sent to you support guys. Are the permissions to the folder not correct? Is there a script that can fix this? I badly need help here.

The only thing I can think of is that the problem might be the TinyPortal mod, which still seems to be at v0.9.8 and there's a v1.075 version already. After the last hack the Administration Center however cannot display the version number correctly for some reason and always writes "You are unable to connect to simplemachines.org's latest news file." While it works perfectly fine on the other SMF board I have. Even if this would work, the v1.075 version apparently requires that the old version is uninstalled and I don't have that link in my Packages list, only "Delete" and this is something different.

So any help would be appreciated, as right now there's little light at the end of the tunnel and the situation is likely to get worse.

Once again my memory fails me.

Big red letters tell me I cannot change the registration page text.

I know there is a way to allow changes to the registration agreement. can't remember though if I have to change the file permission to agreement.txt on the server, or if there is an "on board" switch". I thought the latter, but once again, I can't find it.

I feel like I'm losing my mind. I found a mod a while back that allows having either a new topic or section to link to an external link source. The mod originally didn't install due to my customization, so I planned on manually adding the mod. From my recorders, I believe I did add all of changes to the files. However, I'm not entirely sure. For that reason, I tried to find that mod to no avail. I neglected to save a link to the mod itself.

I must be searching the wrong keywords when searching for mods. All of the ones that pop up deal with redirection of individual links (i.e. any clicking on a link directs to a page saying "the link is taking you away from the forum). I don't want that. I'm looking for the mod that lets individual new topics/threads/sections contain externally link rather than link within the forum.

The most definitive file that I have saved regarding this setup is named "RedirectPdb.php". Can someone please point me in the proper direction?

Thanks in advance!

Hi

I recently started a new forum for a small group to collaborate on line

In my "other place" the

Members: 2  •  Posts: 2  •  Topics: 2
Please welcome XXX, our newest member.

information is in the Info Centre, below the forum with other forum info


In my new forum, this information is on top.

Can't for the life of me figure out how to move it to the bottom

I must have played with it before...unless different versions had it placed elsewhere

My "old place" started several versions ago, and I always update "internally"

My new place started as a Fantastico 1.13 install, but I applied the upgrade to run 1.18

Appreciate any insight here..