Blank/Bad Page After Upgrade 4.1.7

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Zach fixed the issue; something about a glitch in index.php

Yes, before the upgrade, I was in the process of moving everything too forum.advertisingboard.com

no matter how I...

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I guess I should not have said blank, its not a total blank page:

tell me what you see:

http://forum.advertisingboard.com...

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My forum was working just fine before the upgrade...

I copied the upgrade files...
(upgrade went fine)

Bad Home Page:

Internet Explorer cannot display the...

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Back in operation again....

I lost a few changes, but nothing major...

backup worked perfectly!

now to update, then backup again.......

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So that was their way into the db?...

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the install directory was in place under a different name; I suppose the install.php was there.
I have since deleted the install dir along with any files in the install directory.......

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Appears to have been a db hack....

Right after customavatar tables is nothing but garbage/jibberish... then when it gets to the next table the code goes back to normal again...
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I have, but the logs are so long that I could have just as easily missed something...and the
host does not appear all that much concerned or even being helpful...my last email to them
was...

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1) yes loco, I am not quite as dumb as i appear, my first thought was to change the index....

2) I did not mean I was trying to cure the problem by changing anything. What I am saying is...

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Right now I am looking for the public's help. Maybe they can provide more info, maybe they can say look here, or there,
maybe they know something that I have not ran across yet. If you can not tell...

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I can not remember the latest version, but it was not the very recent latest...I try to stay a step back in case their
are problems with the latest updates, so I never install the latest, so it...

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Its why I posted here in hopes to get clues.

I disrupted /includes/ and the hack page went blank.
I disrupted includes/ini.php and again the hack page went blank.

any ideas...

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maybe I am the only one trying to figure this out...

I give ftp access as last resort...

I was hoping at least with your experience, then you would be helpful where to start...

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They do not know much either.

I think this would be a good time for a modder to create some type of hack mod that would restore files
in any event a hack has been detected, and create...

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My forum has been hacked by a wanna-be hacker...honestly I would not even give him the title of hacker...
He left a site that makes $200+/day and injected into a forum that does not do that much...This...