been hacked

[good2laugh]

a site I know of has been hacked.
And my site has had its entire gallery (i.e. images deleted)
Cant see how they did that to the gallery.

I can restore it (I think) from a back up I did about 5 hours ago.. but will lose the posts made on the forum.

Anyone have an idea how he can delete every image.
I looked at moderator log and no deletions are listed. it's bizarre.

last time he hacked both sites - he removed all my posts too. But seems (long as I'm not speaking too soon) he hasn't done that to me this time, just the gallery. The other board had all its posts removed.

Both sites are running the latest stable version of Vb - anyone have any incline as to how gallery got wiped out.

I don't want to restore it, if its going to keep happening, I just can't see any evidence its been done other than no pictures. Guests are turned off completely

cheers

Does anyone know about this site
http://www.phptutorial.info/iptocountry/get_ranges.php
its given me every ip address from Russia.

I don't want to, but given this guys determination I want to be able to prevent every person in Russia accessing any part of my site.

I can't get my head around this htaccess thingy.. I can't figure out what to put inside it apart from all the ip addresses the above site gave me.

I have a server, and it has four or five sites on it. Site A in folder A is the one being attacked, B C D E are fine.

Do I put the htaccess below all those sites, or just below site A.

And will this work, he has some kind of IP changer

Can someone give me advice please.

[davidw]

Personally, I've set up this way before - others may do it differently. I have used IP wildcards rather than inclusive of multiples. For example:
Instead of saying:
62.61.0.0
62.61.1.0
62.61.2.0
etc,
I may either put:
62.61.*.* or even 62.*.*.* depending on the situation.

Also, on the .htaccess, I would do it for each website. - but that's me.