Can You See This?

You should probably do whatever is pretty quick, it's going to be hard on the site traffic to be down so long. If it's too expensive to warrant, and you can switch everything over relatively easily, go for it. There are pros and cons with every software. This one's pretty good, there are plenty others that are good as well. Good luck.
 
Just a test post, I got main menu and logged in without getting crashed now I'll try to post.

I do like the way the Active topics works and the Show all function to view a thread.

The bad thing is 1 lousy pic per post and even though you have a generous 5mb limit you also have Glens /forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
It took 2 attempts to post that, really slow and crashed the first time, I dont like this hosting company you got ... it's a slow board.

I don't mind the board and format, plus it would be somewhat repetative to have another board looking like MB's.

I suggest changing hosts and taking this board over there.

Have a look at Ipower http://www.ipower.com/ and the deals going there.

My private site has 10gig of storage and 250gig of bandwidth for around $100 USD per year.

This site I estimate would have less than 10 gig of bandwidth per month but I have no idea of storage.

I know Ipower servers run at a reasonable pace, and whenever your getting a vid of mine that's where they're coming from.
 
TB is back online! Sweet!
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Crikey

I think the hosting company must have read my post coz this thing is turbo charged now!! /forum/images/graemlins/beerchug.gif
 
I've been having troubles off an on for over a month now. It just doesn't let me log in sometimes.

I don't mind one bit if the software gets changed. IT's not the software that makes the site, it's the people.

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It's great to see Treebuzz back on my computer, hack I didn't know I was that much of an addict to your and Tom's forum.

I hope you can get a fair deal for the job that has to be done to keep the buzzboard coming to all of us at the big TB family all over the world. To me nothing beats TB.

Is there no one over at the ISA that can help you to overcome the trouble (fair is fair, your part in keeping the arborists sharp is a very big contribution to the industry).

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Thanks for the patience gang, and the good comments. It was a difficult test for me to have TB effected and infected like that for almost a week. But, we're now back. We should all thank Josh Pettit and Barb Raphael for getting us back up. Josh is a real pro with this software (amongst other things). I'm sure that he has a lot of work left to do here at TreeBuzz before we are done.

The ads are still messed up, but they will fix that next. Here's some of what he found went on and what he did to fix us:
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Hey Mark,

Well - I'll be darn, it was this security hack which has been going around. Although your server reacted differnetly than most. What the hacker does, is put an iFrame at the bottom of the page which loads a bo-zillion popups, spyware, adware etc.... It's a real pain, because many users get themselves infected with stuff, just by viewing your page.

But in your case, they were only able to modify one file - the ubbthreads.php script... which then oddly "broke" so it just bombed out blank rather than displaying all the junk. So in this case it was good.

I have applied the security fixes to:
addpost.php
addpost_newpoll.php
showflat.php
showtheaded.php
includepollresults.php

I also corrected the permissions on the ubbthreads.php file - which was the only file "writable" so that it shouldn't be able to be modified by a hacker in the future.

So you should be clear from future attacks.

Now - do you run your own server, or are you hosted by someone.

This hacker usually leaves a backdoor script in place, which is a danger to every site on the webserver. It's a script called "bindz" or "pwned" which usually resides in the /tmp directory. If you are hosted by someone, you should tell them that a recent UBB.Threads security bug may have allowed these scripts to be uploaded to the server. And they'll want to take steps to actually remove them from the server and make sure things are secure. This will need to be done by whoever is administrating the actual server software - in most cases this will be your hosting company. If it's your server, and you're not saavy in that, I can refer you to a company which cleans comprimised servers.


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Anyone know what he is talking about? (Glen? /forum/images/graemlins/smirk.gif)

I think Josh is as good with his work as we are with ours! /forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
Glad the Buzz is back!

Mark, I can't speak "Geek Speak", but I am glad these computer techies can fix these problems. Of course these hackers are probably the same guys that know how to fix pc problems as well.
 
Mark, I think the site is good as is, and I'm real happy its back.

If you were to make any changes, I think it would be cool if you introduced the thing MB has where when you log on, up pops a random treework picture...I love that...I sit there for 20 min and keep hitting the refresh button on the 'puter to see them all.

"A picture is worth a thousand words"
 
Yeah, I know what he's talking about, Mark. Remember when we talked on Saturday that I'd said it was probably what it turned out to be?

Tom, remember our brief email exchange of a couple weeks ago? Has that problem been remedied yet? I can stay right on top of all this stuff for you guys. Let me know what you want to do; I can just about guarantee it won't cost you as much and that the response time will be quicker. If Barb isn't hosting more than one site on the box she shouldn't have any reason not to allow me root access to it. If she is or does we can certainly come up with other arrangements.

Don't change the software unless you can find something that will handle the sessions as well as this does. There's nothing more aggravating than to log in, have only enough time to check a few of the new messages, then have all the others you'd not seen yet lose their "new" status the next time you log in. So far as I know, vBulletin still handles that poorly. I don't know how the stuff that Butch is using handles it, but I guess I can check into it; I've got a fairly recent copy somewhere here I can plug in and try if I have to.

The only thing I don't like about this the way it's currently set up is like some others have mentioned: the limit of one attachment per post. But the more elegant solution to that anyway is to zip up the pics and post the one zip file.
 
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