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Re: I was hacked. Please help

  • 2005/4/4 1:24

  • harvester

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Thank you all for your quick responses. I will be looking into all the suggestions. The XOOPS version that I'm using is the latest stable build.
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harvester
I was hacked. Please help

  • 2005/4/3 22:04

  • harvester

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I have a fairly popular gaming site that generates a decent amount of traffic. About 3 days ago I logged in to update the news and I noticed that someone had hacked in and was in the prosses of changing all my front page news posts to racial slurs and gay porn. He had already deleted all the forum posts and sent out a mass e-mail to all my registerd members (about 3,500) The e-mail was very hate oriented. The guy that hacked in clamed to be a member of myg0t. I shut down my vps to prevent any more damage. I did not have a recent backup of the MySQL database so I had to roll back the forums to a version over 2 months old.
My question is: How easy was it for him to hack into my page?
Is there anything that I can do to try and prevent a future attack?
I had the mainfile.php and admin.php files permissions set to 644, I have now changed them to 444.

I don't know about hacking so i'm not sure how he got into my site or how I can try and prevent him or somebody else from hacking in. I'm afraid to bring the page back online untill I can get the page secured. any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.
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harvester
Re: Need help setting up a dedicated server.

  • 2004/11/8 5:25

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They didn't offer me a better plan becaus they don't offer dedicated hosting plans. And I'm still not sure why the people that i'm renting my new dedicated box arn't willing to help out.
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harvester
Need help setting up a dedicated server.

  • 2004/11/8 4:45

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Ok...here is the deal...My current web host says that my site has grown to large for them to host on a shared box so they said that I should look into a virtual dedicated web host and gave me 7 days to move...I got a virtual dedicated host with cpanel but i'm completley lost and I only have like 3 days left to get the domain name and site moved over to the new host. I have no experience with setting up a server or transfering my dns over to my new home and the web host thats renting me the dedicated server arnt helping.. if anyone can help me please let me know...Like I said i'm running out of time.
Thanks in advance.
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harvester
Re: Need a theme custom made will pay $

  • 2004/11/3 3:03

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We found our designer..Thank you for all your e-mails and interest.
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harvester
Need a theme custom made will pay $

  • 2004/11/1 5:16

  • harvester

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Hello, I need a theme made for a Counter Strike Source spray site. I just found out that the modified version of the theme I am using is only viewable in IE and it also is to "clunky". I am willing to pay for a professional designer to work with me in creating a new theme for my page.
If you are interested please e-mail me at harvester@thespraysource.com Thank you.
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harvester
Re:server shut down due to system processor usage

  • 2004/11/1 5:12

  • harvester

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Thank you all for your time. My site is back up and running.
I would like to personally thank brash for helping me out with my site. He came in and did alot of work with the cache and my server host was satisfied enuf to let the site back online. If it wasn't for all the great people here at XOOPS This noob would still be without a web page.
Thank you.
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harvester
Re:server shut down due to system processor usage

  • 2004/11/1 1:48

  • harvester

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  • Since: 2004/9/28


Thank you...Yes I did find the persistent connection line in the main file.php and it's set to 0
So I guess I'm going to have to start looking into the modules...
Also one thing thats kinda off topic but something that I would like to get fixed in the future is when CSNation did there story they said to make sure to connect to my site with IE unless you want to get blinded by poor browser compatibility...Is this XOOPS in general that has this problem or just the theme I'm using? I'm using a modified version of the EDJ2.1 theme from the themes library on this site.
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harvester
Re:server shut down due to system processor usage

  • 2004/11/1 0:45

  • harvester

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Thank you very much for your reply.
Being very much an armature at all this I didn't know that my site needed to be "streamlined" as it were. I just got it the way I wanted it and let it do it's thing. I'll be looking allot more into some of the modules I have going and also I'll contact my host about the questions you asked. I can answer that they are on a windows and not Linux server... Thats about all I know. I have xsas and i'm doing some local tests to see what the problem is...and i'll contact my host and have them turn it back on so I can at least put up the closed for maintenance message.
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harvester
Re:server shut down due to system processor usage

  • 2004/11/1 0:16

  • harvester

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  • Since: 2004/9/28


The modules I have installed are:
wf-downloads
marquee
myalbum
newphpadds
antidos
and a tutorials module
All modules are latest versions
Plus I have most of the stock XOOPS modules installed.
I have the news section as my home page.
Whith these blocks on front page:
latest members
top downloads
recent downloads
random photo
who's online (plus I dowloaded an extra who's online that shows ip and where everyone is at, but it's only active for administrator.

top posters
recent threads
most viewed threads
top threads
and my phpnewadds module cycles a 120 x 600 scyscraper add on all pages.

I'm not sure about the persistent connection...If it is set to yes as default then it is set to yes.
I can't go into my site to trouble shoot it because my host wont turn it back on. Most likely i'm going to have to wait till late tonight and see if I can get it turned back on...It should be fairly calm then.
Could the phpadds be my problem?
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