Sorry for the downtime folks, if your wondering what happened to us, our server was hit by what appeared to be a defacement hack. This did not compromise the security of the forums so your personal info is safe, but using a script it overwrote every index file. A complete pain in the arse or what.
But you live and learn, its one of those things, first time in the 5 or so years we've been around, so inevitably it had to happen at some point, hopefully we've put the measures in place to reduce this from happening in the future. We decided the best course of action for the breach, was to clean the server completely, with a full format and rebuild, hence why it took a few days.
A Huge Huge Massive thanks to Martyn , you the man!!, and Mark too and thanks to Andy Cpufreak too, for all his help during this downtime period. Plus all the other messages of support etc we've received, and the constant, 'when will it be back' cheers also to you.
A few things may not be 100% at the moment, but we'll get it sorted over the coming days. But at last we're back online.
Hope you've not missed us too much, get back to it folks, enjoy.
But you live and learn, its one of those things, first time in the 5 or so years we've been around, so inevitably it had to happen at some point, hopefully we've put the measures in place to reduce this from happening in the future. We decided the best course of action for the breach, was to clean the server completely, with a full format and rebuild, hence why it took a few days.
A Huge Huge Massive thanks to Martyn , you the man!!, and Mark too and thanks to Andy Cpufreak too, for all his help during this downtime period. Plus all the other messages of support etc we've received, and the constant, 'when will it be back' cheers also to you.
A few things may not be 100% at the moment, but we'll get it sorted over the coming days. But at last we're back online.
Hope you've not missed us too much, get back to it folks, enjoy.
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