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[kman2000]

Important notices like this should never be sent through your marketing email serivce unless you remove the tracking service so the direct links will be visible. Obfuscated links don't inspire confi...

[kman2000]

I have searched over there -- and everywhere else, for hours. That's why I posted here, to see if anyone knows of something that would work. I'm aware that it's not part of the system.

[kman2000]

I need a simple points system to limit posting in a specific category to people who are active on the boards. I would like to require something like 10 regular posts for every post to the restricted...

[kman2000]

Thanks, Kerry-Anne. I think I need a bit more than this, though, since setting a limit based only on post count would only require people to be active until they reached the necessary count. I want...

[kman2000]

I have one category that I would like to only allow active posters to be able to post to. It's a sale announcement category, and I have some people who only come to my board to use that category. Ideally,...

[kman2000]

My point is that it should have been done when the suggestions were originally made. There was no discussion or qualification when the suggestions were made -- and the result is that people were chasing...

[kman2000]

These fixes were announced this way:

Additional Security measures

1. Disable phpsuexec and set the php passthru setting to 1 in php.ini


There was no discussion...

[kman2000]

Looks like vBPortal is down again? If this server is compromised, it should probably be rebuilt from the ground up. Until then, it's difficult to know whether any of the recommended changes have an impact....

[kman2000]

Perhaps we now know a bit more. On the Secunia advisory, the vulnerability description includes this:

"Input passed to the "bbvbplang" cookie parameter is not properly verified,...

[kman2000]

So they must now have a list of all the licensed sites, since that was a profile field?

Perhaps you should remove any profile fields that contain site identifiers before loading up the user...

[kman2000]

At this point everything is just speculation, other than the facts that it is happening and there is currently no fix. My point was simply to stimulate some investigation among the user base rather than...

[kman2000]

What concerns me most about this is whether the hackers now have a nice list of sites to hack since our licensed URL was contained in our profiles at vbportal.

Since the exploit code is...

[kman2000]

I would at the very least like to have the code changes that Scott recommended. If improvements can be made now, why wait until all the answers are in? That just keeps the risk elevated.

[kman2000]

Where are the patches for VBPortal? Seems like they should be made available somewhere other than on a site that is being actively attacked.

[kman2000]

Looks like it's down again. Was this voluntary or involuntary?

[kman2000]

So asking questions or reporting bugs is now complaining? Get a life.

Developers don't add options to a program if they don't intend them to be used. And they need feedback in order to...

[kman2000]

Hmm. Then why have the option to change the fonts within vButton?

[kman2000]

Font Sizes

I'm having trouble changing font sizes. I would like to change the Header button to Verdana Bold 8, just to see how it looks, but vButton doesn't accept the change. If I change...

[kman2000]

Run-time error 13 Fix

Simply forgot to install the Scripting plug-in support for Photoshop. Works like a champ now.

One question. How do I change the width of the buttons?...

[kman2000]

I'm getting the same error on a fresh install. (On XP Pro) Sure would like to make this work.