So far I have successfully managed to keep the forum both safe and running with software patches and by other means that I am not going to discuss here, for obvious reasons...
This positive situation may not continue, however. It has just been reported that a new version of the worm that can successfully attack the updated versions of the phpBB forum software has been released, and the first forums have already been taken down by this new version.
I am monitoring the situation constantly (just what I wanted to do over Christmas...
) and will try to keep the forum up and running as long as possible. However, if it looks like the new version is spreading and really taking down protected forums as well in a big way I will close the forum until the problem has been corrected. Even if the forum does get hacked before I do this we won't lose more than a couple of the very newest posts. I'm making backups at very short intervals, so as soon as the problem is resolved I will be able to get the forum back up and running again quickly.
Sorry for any inconvenience!
Informal Poll:
Does anybody have any creative suggestions for what to do with the cretins responsible for Santy.A when they are caught?
