Can't Stay Logged in

[kibtwane]

For the past few days I haven't been able to stay logged into my forum . I don't know what's causing this problem, as I haven't made any modifications to my forum in months and have been using the latest version of Firefox for several weeks. I'm running 2.0 RC3.

[Arantor]

It's a spate of bots attacking SMF forums.

Ideally upgrade to at least RC4 if not RC5, failing that as a *minimum* use emulate to emulate RC4 and install the security patch anyway.

(RC4 has the same problem as RC3 does, but at least the patch will be on the 'proper' version then!)

[kibtwane]

Thanks for the reply.

Why do they want to stop people from staying logged in?

[Arantor]

That's not the point, as it happens. They're trying to get your password.

[scimmiotto]

Emm how to fix it?

[Arantor]

Ideally upgrade to at least RC4 if not RC5, failing that as a *minimum* use emulate to emulate RC4 and install the security patch anyway.

(RC4 has the same problem as RC3 does, but at least the patch will be on the 'proper' version then!)

[lazylivin]

I did a search and found this thread. I am having the exact same problem. SMF 2.0 RC3. It started the same time as first poster. I have a ton of failed login attempts from current members and members that are not even active on the forum.

[willerby]

If upgrade to RC4 and applying the security patch is not something you can take on right now, I'd install mod to force email log-in (search mods Email Login). This will stop members getting logged out as the bots have harvested userIds from your forum and are trying to login over the top of members.

By forcing email login the bot attack is useless.

Ultimately you need to upgrade at some point though.

[Arantor]

You can actually install the security patch on RC3 if you use the version emulate feature.

[willerby]

You can do that too...

[Arantor]

I know I did

[scimmiotto]

rc5 installed, no problems at all