Forum corruption?

PolyVox · Post by **PolyVox** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 7:13 pm

Hi Guys,

When I came to the forum today I saw this:

Note how there is no user under the last post column, and the date is 1970. Anyone know what's going on? I'd hate to think there was some corruption or attempted hack taking place...

Post by **xavier** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 7:39 pm

The patch to allow mods/admins to delete all of a user's posts when the user is deleted (which is invaluable for efficiently killing spam) seems to need a tweak. I never noticed it because I don't use the main index (I always come in via a link to the "View All Unread" search), but it seems that if a deleted post was the only new thing in a given forum, it doesn't update the forum's "latest new posts" data. That's up to Sinbad to look into, and I don't know that he has the time.

In other words, it's almost definitely harmless.

PolyVox · Post by **PolyVox** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 8:18 pm

Ok, great, nothing to worry about then

One of them has now disappeared, I guess the others will as people post.

ppClarity · Post by **ppClarity** » Fri Oct 17, 2008 1:08 am

xavier wrote:The patch to allow mods/admins to delete all of a user's posts when the user is deleted (which is invaluable for efficiently killing spam) seems to need a tweak.

It's actually an artifact of phpBB itself so even if you whack the posts manually you'll see that. That may be solved in v3.

In other words, it's almost definitely harmless.

Yep

Post by **betajaen** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 11:10 pm

anamorgan wrote:That is quite a matter of discussion, not as per to discriminate orge.org, but to overcome the flaw as soon as possible, it might lead to a condition that all the records mught have lost if the problem isnt solved quickly.

Spammers are getting intelligent.