Sorting out an old vB 2 installation which has been hacked, and upgrading

[ummahforums]

I'm not sure how much damage has been done to the database so I'd rather not just upgrade... I'd like to have as fresh an installation as possible

[ummahforums]

Many thanks for the prompt reply I'll start working on it

[ummahforums]

I had a really old vB 2 installation on another site I maintain which I neglected to upgrade. The forum has been active - and has now been hacked (well, cracked). The hackers have locked out the real...

[ummahforums]

Super

BTW, 9 minutes for 9000 threads is pretty damn fast... what's your server's spec if I may ask?...

[ummahforums]

I opened the forum again 3 hours later (after my first post in this thread), while the rebuild was still going on, and soon there were around 15 users on the forum. Anyway, I woke up in the morning to...

[ummahforums]

Wouldn't it take longer with the forum open? Or wouldn't there be much difference?...

[ummahforums]

I have 37,183 threads and 376,206 posts, and I've just upgraded to vB 3 from vB 2. How long is rebuilding similar threads likely to take? I have 512MB RAM and ~2GHz processor (dedicated box). Rebuilding...

[ummahforums]

The status finally came up, and it had done 350,000 posts - I guess it did pick up from where it left off! Phew!

[ummahforums]

Hi,

I just upgraded from vB 2.3.2 to 3.0.2 and have been rebuilding the search index. I started it last night (default options) and it was taking ages, so I left it on overnight (it had...

[ummahforums]

1. For security reasons, stay away from control panels - all a cracker would need is one password to mess up your site. Login to the shell via SSH, use public key authentication (disable password authentication...

[ummahforums]

I am running a busy forum on mySQL-4.0.13. No problems. Actually seems to run faster than before.

As advised, I dumped my vBulletin DB before upgrading (from mySQL 3.23.55) and then restored...

[ummahforums]

Well, here's the latest:

Apache shows "POST /forum/admin/options.php" 6 times between 13:46 and 13:51 GMT (and the vB admin log agrees). The IP reported is the IP of an admin (well,...

[ummahforums]

Yep, I just checked, and it does....

[ummahforums]

Well, the hacker didn't do any damage at all, which is why it's so puzzling. I've looked through the Apache access_log for accesses to the admin directory, and they all check out with the admins, and...

[ummahforums]

But all the entries in the admin log check out, fully. Surely an entry would appear in the admin log, if it was done by a person using an admin account?

The Sendmail on the box has also...

[ummahforums]

The thing is, there are only a few entries in the admin log today and all of them check out (xiphoid - I have talked to the other admins and checked).

As to direct access, root login on my...

[ummahforums]

For 5 minutes, my board displayed the following message:

vBulletin Message
Board Hacked ^^____DaKeWl____^^

After that, the message was removed but the board was still...

[ummahforums]

Yep....

[ummahforums]

I have GD installed (as confirmed by the phpinfo script), but the image doesn't load in the register page, I just get an "x".

With what parameters should I configure my PHP installation...

[ummahforums]

I'll correct myself then: "It seems that the cat-haters are a minority in the vBulletin community..."