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 		 Security Breach, Upcoming Maintenance
As many of you may be aware, the security on the forums server was recently compromised. Someone(s) used a new phpBB vulnerability exploit to gain access to the server and do fun things like ad pr0n popups/trojan downloaders to all the forums pages, steal server passwords, and add backdoor shells to the box. Yay!

We've gotten rid of the trojan downloader from the site and hope that the holes are temporarily patched. I'll be working over the upcoming weekend to completely wipe the server and reinstall everything from scratch. I'll try to post a warning before the server is taken down, but expect periods of downtime and unavailability of services over the next week. Hopefully, the cleanup will result in little to no loss of data.

Please note that any private information, such as your email address, that you have stored in the forums database may have been compromised. Additionally, anyone who visited the forums in the last week **especially IE users** should run antivirus/antispyware software as soon as possible. I apologize for any inconvenience.
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SpaceBass
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 		I think we're in business. File attachments are disabled while I upload the 750MB of files tonight.
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SpaceBass
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 		Good news and bad news: file attachments are re-enabled, but due to certain difficulties, we have lost all of the attachment data from July 17 through November 27. Those attachments *should* still exist on the server if you know the URL to the filename, but they will no longer show up in the posts to which they were attached. Sorry. Sad
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