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See How to clean up a board hit by spam for some suggestions. You don't have to delete one by one necessarily. You can click the MCP link at the top of any forum and select whole pages of topics to trash. It might take some time but it's doable. Assign forums to each moderator and tackle it together.

It does that if you do the highly unusual action you're doing. Why would you preview and then go back and preview again though? You can report it as a bug if you want but I doubt they'll do anything as you're doing an action that isn't the usual 'workflow' of making a post and it's not a fatal action.

You might want to chip in on the discussion here
viewtopic.php?f=436&t=2638681

It's super annoying because prospective new users barely get 5 seconds to see or read anything and decide if they want to join before they get redirected to the login. I even chose the English translation and then never got the chance to choose it again when I tried to go back to the index to actual...

You should really ask the people you bought the style from.

On a different laptop, to act as a guest, I did enter URL with the domain plus ending in /phpbb3/index.php and /phpbb3/viewonline.php. The response was, Must be logged in to view ... At the same time using my first laptop logged in as an administrator I was able to see a new guest arrive and access...

It's a question.
You can see it if you click my sig. I don't like to post on here saying what it is because it works! And actually myself and Mick experimented and you can actually make it very very very simple indeed. The difficult bit for the bots is that you have to understand what the task is.

Like warmweer, I'm also using an effective Q&A. I think I've changed it twice in 3 years and one of those was from this recent attack. I use the same style on 3 sites and they're all equally effective.

with all due respect, this is unhelpful. I don't think your team are taking onboard the severity of this recent wave of bots ability to crack even the hardest of Q&A. We are because we got it as well and we had it on our own boards. I changed my Q&A and it stopped. That's it. We know from e...

The URL in the browser address bar. https://www.phpbb.com/community/memberlist.php or https://www.phpbb.com/community/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=1912496 I'm not a coder but I think the session information is all in the database. Bottom line is it's not worth the trouble to find it all out...

Ah found it in the /docs folder
docs/FAQ.html#viewonline

This used to be in the FAQ but I think it's been taken out. They are not actually seeing those pages. They're seeing a screen saying they don't have permission to view it. It's easy for you to test. Open another browser, copy the URL for something like a profile or the memberlist, and then paste it ...

admin panel
general
Board settings
Main website URL

If something is in there, the home link appears.

They are the ones providing the files, it should be up to them to support what they provide.

I've never seen that guest modification. If you didn't add it, the least they can do is tell you how to disable it so you can log in. Or tell you what extension it is so you can ask the author.

Then you need to talk to your hosts.