Rouge Ad inserted on my forum, need help getting rid of it

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I've run VB forums since 2004. I've never seen anything like this. A rouge ad that I know nothing about is stuck at the bottom of every page of my forum. It does not scroll with the page so it gets in...

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I was at 3.8.4 until last night. I thought an upgrade might change things so I upgraded to 3.8.7 sp2 and tested. No difference. Since it showed the same symptom here on this site running 4.x I no longer...

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Just tried this text which is part of the issue. It does the same thing here as on my site. Notice the missing line feeds between paragraphs. I have to agree with the person on my site who complained...

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For some unknown reason when pasting a multi paragraph copy into my forum it loses formatting and the paragraphs are gone. Everything is run on. I lose the line feeds.

Any idea how I can...

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No, I did not close it. Manual did not mention closing it. In hindsight that was probably a big mistake, but I'm not sure that caused the issues since it worked flawlessly on all the other forums I...

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System is not in safe mode. 70% of the pics converted okay. the other 30% were missing. No red x or any indication of a missing image, simply nothing under the text.
I'm on my own dedicated...

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For performance.

Removing them via the admin control panel.

from the VB manual:

There are several factors you need to consider before choosing which method you...

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I procrastinated removing images from my databases. On my smaller forums removing them was a breeze. No issues. However on my largest forum I had problems.
Removing the images seemed to go...

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At the beginning of the upgrade I did get the


File does not contain expected contents error.
Lots of files were listed, but I ignored and tried the upgrade as suggested here....

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I can see just one post is threadid 0. No posts showed up in that thread.

So I deleted it with this command:
DELETE FROM thread WHERE threadid = 0;

Thanks for your help...

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Thanks for all the help / advice Steve. Best wishes to you for your future. All the best my friend.
Cheers!!!!!

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THANKS Lynne. I'll try that later tonight.

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I am fighting with getting phpMyAdmin up and working on that server. I am not sure of any actions taken to protect the databases on the server other than it was shut down gracefully.

Would...

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I can't see any posts in that one sticky thread.
I don't know how to check the ID or what is in the database for that thread. Any clues on how to do that.

As a side note this forum...

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but you cannot view them.
Here is a link to show you what I mean:

http://netcookingtalk.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=24

Any ideas on how to fix this issue?

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Worked like a charm. I only had one post with zero ID. THANKS BirdOPrey5!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...

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I'm not having any luck with phpmyadmin .... is there any other way to get rid of this problem (post at the top of every new thread).
I can't delete it, it says I do not have permissions. Any idea...

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I tried to delete it via VB and it says I do not have permissions even though I'm admin.
Trying to get phpMyAdmin running, maybe I can do it from there.

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I just installled phpmyadmin on my server. It does not come up via command line. It it accessed via http? Any hints on how I get into phpmyadmin. TIA!...

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Tried removing orphan posts. No joy.