[JR]

have you written anything remotely serious today cofe?  Or let alone that, done any work?

[cofe]

no. no.








no. no. no. no.

no. no. no. no.

no. no there's no limit.

[Bubba]

It looks like this problem may have re-occurred. This is exremely annoying.

Really, this pre-modded version of phpbb has been a bit of a nighmare and I'm now considering going back to a standard install of the latest version of phpbb. I was going to hold out until the release of phpBB Olympus but this has been once again delayed.

Unfortunately if I choose this route, many of the nice "extras" will be lost (eg sub-forums) but I think that this is preferable to having people getting infected with dodgy spyware.

[jonP]

Apparently there's a major security problem with phpbb 2.0.10. Could you upgrade to 2.0.12?

http://www.phpbb2.de/portal.php?topic_id=25058

But apparently there's a major security problem with 2.0.12 as well:

http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=267563

[Bubba]

Thanks Jon - I checked phpbb2 earlier but couldn't find anything

I'm tempted to go back to a vanilla install anyway because this one runs like a pig. I'll have to test it out first so will take a few days.

[Bubba]

btw, phpbb2.de isn't the real phpbb - it's a pre-hacked version - the real version is at phpbb.com and is already at 2.0.13.

[JR]

or even 2.0.14

[Bubba]

pedant

I might upgrade to php 5 at the same time....

[JR]

pedant

I might upgrade to php 5 at the same time....

is everybody having the same problems with running phpbb2?

[clm]

i dont understand all these numbers.
re my original problem (which has randomly fixed itself). do youn think by clicking yes when it asked me if i wanted software it actually started to download shit onto my machine or just gave me the next pop up?
had to click yes to unfreeze explorer.

[Bubba]

is everybody having the same problems with running phpbb2?

These problems come and go - phpbb is the most popular forum software so it's going to have a lot of attacks against it.

Really, the problem lies with IE anyway - it's the IFRAME exploit in IE that causes all these problems, if you use Firefox this doesn't happen.

[Bubba]

i dont understand all these numbers.
re my original problem (which has randomly fixed itself). do youn think by clicking yes when it asked me if i wanted software it actually started to download shit onto my machine or just gave me the next pop up?
had to click yes to unfreeze explorer.

It might have downloaded something - run a full virus/adware check.

If you get the same problem again, just go to the task manager and kill IE.