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OK I just answered that myself, sorry dumb question.

Today I tried to access the system tab of my ACP, and it sort of hung around for an awful long time, before reporting an fsockopen error, saying it couldn't connect to the server.

Is this because the system that the ACP uses to check for updates has been affected by the hack ? ie. is the system ...

Isn't it possible to create a multiple layer image, instead of screwing around with noise ?

You know take an image of a word cut it horizontally into several pieces, and then layer it onto the page, or create one single layered image. So the image can't be read by a robot, because the characters ...

@ K45p3r

You need to change the message you are displaying on your portal mainpage.
FORUMS ARE DOWM FOR MAINTENANCE!!!! PhpBB was attacked and lost alot of servers the Phpbb team is working to get this problem solved as fast as they can please check back and I am hopeing they can get it done ASAP ...

I've seen no sign of bot registrations that I would consider out of the ordinary since this happened, so as has been said those of you who have must be experiencing a coincidental event, as opposed to one that has been caused by this.

As was said earlier simple steps like changing the captcha ...

You do realise .htaccess files do not work on all web servers, and I have been known to forget to deny access to it in the main web server configuration. I just find this way easier, and it keeps all my configuration files in /etc where they belong.
They do on all mine, I make a point of it ...

@ rusty105
A clue about what ?

The hack was nothing to do with phpBB3 , other than it being done to the people who write the code, so whatever you found posted on your phpBB board isn't relevant in anyway to the fact that phpBB.com was hacked.

@ ChrisRLG
I was only suggesting restoring an old ...

Yes I know, which is why saying that your config.php would be served as plaintext if php stopped working isn't right.

If for some reason PHP stops your config.php will be served as plaintext. Usually I just modify the config.php in the web root to do:
<?php
include '/etc/phpbb/site.example.com.php';
Ummm no I think not.

<Files "config.php">
Order Allow,Deny
Deny from All
</Files>
That entry in .htaccess ...

Hi

Yes I understand that, I didn't mean now though. I meant for the future once you've got it all back.

It would surely be easy enough (once it's all back) to have a read-only mirror that was updated nightly somewhere else.

As long as backups were held for a reasonable amount of time, even a ...