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Chief Corn

04-12-2003, 12:33 PM

I havn't added any new hacks to my forum for about 2 months, didn't make any other changes to any files. Then all of a sudden (just started this week) my forum has pop up ads?! I just noticed it when a member pointed it out. So I disabled my pop up blocker, and sure enough there were pop ups on my forum. Was I hacked, or am I the hacker?

I don't have any hacks that use PHPWebThings (that I know of), and what is http://www.901club.com?

Please help. My site is http://www.2ktree.com

-Chief Corn

Chris Gwynne

04-12-2003, 07:46 PM

Ask your host. :)

Erwin

04-13-2003, 02:40 AM

Make sure your browser hasn't been infected with spyware. And you have blocked WinXP from being sent IMs. And that you do not enable HTML in posts or signatures in your forums.

filburt1

04-13-2003, 02:54 AM

http://www.lavasoftusa.com/ . Learn to love it. :)

Chief Corn

04-13-2003, 02:57 AM

hmmm. i'm hosted with ventures online...i'm hoping they didn't put that. :\ i've been away from computers for a week, and from the date the popups were mentioned in a post was 3 days before i came back. and i don't allow html in posts/sigs.

i guess i have a reason to update to 2.3.0 (currently using 2.2.9) now. why are the russians hacking me? ;P

-Chief Corn