[Coco] forums restore

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 08 July 2009, Sean wrote:
>Wow.  Looks like a spammer got in again today.  I do not envy your
>admin job right now...
>
I don't see anything unusual, but my login is dead.

>On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 9:59 PM, Roger Taylor<operator at coco3.com> wrote:
>> At 06:37 PM 7/7/2009, you wrote:
>>> The CoCo forums have been restored to a date a few weeks prior to the
>>> recent damage.  To anybody affected, please let me know if you can log in
>>> under your original account, etc.  Any messages posted in the past week
>>> went into the bit bucket.  I'm also going to delete at least 100 bogus
>>> forum accounts (some are obvious) and do some database optimizing.
>>
>> Folks, give me time to restore the database yet again back to the July 5
>> 2009 copy.  The one I just uploaded was from 2008.  I'm still looking for
>> a May or June 2009 copy and have asked my host to look for one as well.
>>  They came through for me in the past after a bot attack.  This is what I
>> get for running a site. This is what I get for using the software that the
>> rest of the world uses.  We have security holes in MySQL, PHP, Apache,
>> Windows, Linux,..  It's either run a site, or not.  They always seem to
>> get us when we're slacking on our backups.
>>
>> I don't blame anybody for not posting right now while I work out some
>> kinks.
>>
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