Apologies for last few days of broken-ness

[DJ Mike]

I don't believe any password was compromised. The server reported a potential trojan attack, and I dealt with it immediately, asking the server tech people to re-install the server software to be sure security wasn't compromised.

As Straycat pointed out, vbulletin is a very secure piece of software and all passwords are properly encrypted. So even if the server had been maliciously compromised, it would have no effect on your security. If anything, I believe hackers were trying to get control of the server to use it as a spam engine or something similar.

It has nothing to do with stored passwords and everything to do with intercepting passwords as they are entered - if you'd had a trojan which was stealing username/password entry and siphoning it off to some third party website, that's a serious problem. Doesn't matter if your database stores passwords encrypted - if you have a keylogger trojan, that really isn't going to matter.

And no, I don't use the password I use here for any other login of value, because I consider VBulletin along with every other major forum system to be an incredibly high security risk, regardless of any "security PR" they care to pump out to the contrary.

[Franck]

It has nothing to do with stored passwords and everything to do with intercepting passwords as they are entered - if you'd had a trojan which was stealing username/password entry and siphoning it off to some third party website, that's a serious problem. Doesn't matter if your database stores passwords encrypted - if you have a keylogger trojan, that really isn't going to matter.

Fair enough, but as I said, I don't believe the attempt was successful. All servers get regular attempts at breach, and I have security on the server set pretty high. I get notification of all unusual activity and immediately ban ip addresses that are guilty of such.
In this case, I got notification of potential breach, and I immediately changed the server password and notified the hosts, so they could investigate. They couldn't find anything, but, to be on the safe side, I asked them to re-install the server software to avoid any security compromise.

[djtrev]

Is anybody else still having difficulties logging on or reliability issues.It has been very poor for me this morning

[DJ Mike]

Is anybody else still having difficulties logging on or reliability issues.It has been very poor for me this morning

It seems to slow down quite a bit for me at times - the front page loads just fine, but when I try to look at a thread or search for unread posts, it sometimes takes quite a long time for the site to respond.

[DavidY]

It seems to slow down quite a bit for me at times - the front page loads just fine, but when I try to look at a thread or search for unread posts, it sometimes takes quite a long time for the site to respond.

I find it's just variable. Sometimes the first page is fine, sometimes it isn't. Depending on what you're trying to do, a retry sometimes feels quicker than waiting for your original request to load.

[DavidY]

When posting the last post, however, I clicked on 'Post Quick Reply', and got an unexpected dialog asking me if I wanted to leave the page, warning of unsaved data. I opted to stay put, then tried again with the same result. Opted to leave the page, and it appeared to do the post, but the post came up blank.

I just had this very scenario, except the post came up for me, after a really long delay. The other issue was the post came up twice. While waiting to see if the post would appear, I tried to do a Forum search in another broswer tab and both tabs seemed to hang, but both came back to life at the same time.

[David Bailey]

It's still slow for me too

[djtrev]

Log on is very slow.Hope it has nothing to do with the problem that DJ Mike referred to.

[djtrev]

Franck.I think I got to the point of uploading some pictures but when I tried to process them I got an HTTP 500 error.

[wongd]

I am getting a blank page when I view http://forum.cerocscotland.com/showthre ... iscoveries

[Gus]

Hmmm ... I'm having problems trying to logon through my mobile. The software keeps on directing me to the App Store to buy their app .... which I don't want to do. when I cancel out of that recurring loop it kindly refuses me to log-on. Do you need to have their app now to log on through a mobile?

[Tiggerbabe]

I'm pretty sure the app is free and I must admit, I seldom log on to the forum using Safari, when I'm using my phone, but I still can do it.

I actually really like Forum Runner and it's very easy to use.

[wongd]

On android, it redirects you to the paid version of forum runner. You have to exit that and search the apps store for the free version of forum runner. For android it is https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... unner.free

[DavidY]

The Forum seems strangely reluctant to show me page 3 of the desktop/ laptop thread.

http://forum.cerocscotland.com/showthre ... -Mac/page3

Clicking on the "Last" link or the "3" link (for page 3) take me to the URL above (which says page3) but I get the top of page 2. I can see there's a post from Franck by going to the "Show Printable Version" option but the normal option won't work. I'm using an oldish version of Firefox and a fully patched IE8, and they both have the same problem...

[Franck]

The Forum seems strangely reluctant to show me page 3 of the desktop/ laptop thread.

http://forum.cerocscotland.com/showthre ... -Mac/page3

Clicking on the "Last" link or the "3" link (for page 3) take me to the URL above (which says page3) but I get the top of page 2. I can see there's a post from Franck by going to the "Show Printable Version" option but the normal option won't work. I'm using an oldish version of Firefox and a fully patched IE8, and they both have the same problem...

Yes, I had the same problem last night after posting... Philsmove appears to have fixed it with his post, so all is good now and you can read page 3

I'm still having issues with the forum and the server, and seriously considering a move to a different service provider, possibly a Mac OS Server...

[Lynn]

I'm having problems with it hanging a lot... I can post, but then it seems to become unresponsive.

[Double Trouble]

Same as Lynn for me. Forums on the blink big time.

[Franck]

Thanks all for the reports and feedback, I'm still diagnosing issues and sadly it's taking time, having to re-install the forum seems to have broken many small things which are hard to trace.

I appreciate your patience in the meantime.