A.k.a.: Andrew van der Stock
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posted on July 23rd, 2009 at 11:23 AM
Site outage 23/7/2009
Hi folks,
For some reason our database server took a dirt nap. After inspecting, I found we had a lot of fake registrations from our Russian spammer friends,
but I don't think that was the cause.
As it looks like they were trying to use us to distribute malware through our attachments system, I have temporarily disabled our
forum from displaying images to unregistered guests. If you're a guest - please logon to see the images. I will relax this in a few days time. I have
also de-registered all those fake users and banned the IP addresses behind them.
Please check out your PMs (I can't read them so I don't know if they're safe), and make sure you have not received any unwanted PM spam. If you
have, please let me know.
thanks,
Andrew
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A.k.a.: Adam Pawlowski
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posted on July 23rd, 2009 at 04:28 PM
thanks for the heads up Andrew, and thanks for all the extra effort u put in to keep the site we all know and love running as smoothly as it can. Hope
everything is better now at home too.
Cheers Adam
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