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Originally posted by blacksurfer
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Originally posted by blacksurfer
Yes, thanks I'm on the free Cloudflare account and everything seems to be fine. I moderate all news member before they can post. My forum, along with many others, have gotten really small. People seem to have moved to social media and not using forums anymore, so I don't want to upgrade to continue to beat a dead horse. The spam emails have also ceased. Thanks to all for your help.
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Originally posted by blacksurfer
Unfortunately my license can't get 4.2.5. I'm considering upgrading to vb5 with the special mentioned on the sticky for $169, or zenforo for $160. I was hoping the upgrade for those of us already on vb4 would be less than the competitor's new full forum. Thanks to all for their help.
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Originally posted by blacksurfer
OK, i read in another topic that upgrading to vb5 prevents this. Thanks
vBulletin will delete expired sessions every hour. If you're under a DDOS attack, it cannot do this because there are 1) too many sessions, 2) the table fails, 3) server resources are exhausted. The way to protect against DDOS attacks is to use a firewall at the largest bandwidth portions coming into your data center's network to deflect improper traffic to the void. It just goes there to die. Your hope is that your internal network will still have enough bandwidth for legitimate requests. If you wait until it gets to the actual server it is often too late. The network is overwhelmed and the server goes offline. If you wait until it gets to the application (vBulletin in this case), there is no hope of regaining control.
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Originally posted by blacksurfer
Thanks I signed up and changed my email password and this seems to be working for now. I'm on forum 4.1.2, why wasn't the patch released for older forums and not just 5?
Secondly vB4 is end of life
Thirdly and most importantly, even if such an issue did crop up on vB4 and we decided to issue a patch, it would only be for 4.2.5.
4.1.2 is old and completely unsupported. It also potentially contains other unpatched security flaws. You should arrange to upgrade php to 7.1 and vBulletin to 4.2.5 without delay.
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I want to thank Marc for his ticket advice, which worked perfectly !! thanks a lot Mark
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Because as far as I know the security issue only affected vB5. not vB4.
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Originally posted by blacksurferThat's what my web host thought. Anyway to prevent this from happening? Do I need to upgrade to vb5 or another forum like zenforo or is there another preventative step? Thanks very much!
Using a firewall on the server may help somewhat but in my experience if you're really getting hammered you'll probably need to use Cloudflare - The Web Performance & Security Company | Cloudflare. Try the free version first. If that doesn't work, moving up to the lowest paid plan (Pro @ $20/month USD) will likely stop it dead. The Pro plan adds an additional firewall that allows you to block entire countries, which is very effective if you know where they are coming from.
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You need to speak to your host. No forum software can prevent DDOS attacks.
Upgrading or switching software will not help. Defending such attacks is a server-level operation.
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No it's not a new error. What may have changed is that forums, especially vBulletin forums, are under active attack by bots lately, many from China.
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No there is no video. Running queries differs depending on the host and their set up, over which we have no control.
Your host will normally provide something like phpMyAdmin to provide access to the database. You can run the query on there.
If not, or if you are not confident running queries, you can speak to your host.
Alternatively: If you have ftp access (and can provide us with the credentials), then you can raise a support ticket to us, we should be able to upload a file that will allow us to run the query for you.
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Thanks, I couldn't do anything, please there are some videos for this problem, I had a web master unfortunately it disappeared, thanks to everyone for your availability
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Hello. I can't open my forum anymore; gives me this error:
PHP Warning: mysqli_query(): (HY000/1114): The table 'session' is full in ..../includes/class_core.php on line 1386
can you help me please?
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