I took that code and modified it to use a random username/password for the database, instead of a list of user/pass in sequence over the course of an hour.
Open your forum's config.php and replace
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$dbuser='username';
$dbpasswd = 'password';
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$dbuser_temp = rand() % 9; // randomize db username used for queries
switch ($dbuser_temp)
{
case 0:
$dbuser='username1';
$dbpasswd = 'password1';
break;
case 1:
$dbuser='username2';
$dbpasswd = 'password2';
break;
case 2:
$dbuser='username3';
$dbpasswd = 'password3';
break;
case 3:
$dbuser='username4';
$dbpasswd = 'password4';
break;
case 4:
$dbuser='username5';
$dbpasswd = 'password5';
break;
case 5:
$dbuser='username6';
$dbpasswd = 'password6';
break;
case 6:
$dbuser='username7';
$dbpasswd = 'password7';
break;
case 7:
$dbuser='username8';
$dbpasswd = 'password8';
break;
case 8:
$dbuser='username9';
$dbpasswd = 'password9';
break;
case 9:
$dbuser='username10';
$dbpasswd = 'password10';
break;
}
I apologize if this has been covered elsewhere here, or if it's in the wrong forum for a tip. I tried using the search but kept getting a 0-byte reply from the form (Opera 8.5).
The knowledgebase article that has the original code that I modified is here: http://www.phpbb.com/kb/article.php?article_id=371