View Full Version : Has the forum been hijacked?


ghudson
11-16-2005, 12:19 PM
What the heck is this stuff appearing at the top of the forums web pages? Has this site been hijacked?

pdx_man
11-16-2005, 12:24 PM
Hijacked ... no, just some child who is annoying and trying to strut their stuff.

Can anyone translate?

Kraj
11-16-2005, 12:30 PM
Why on earth would anyone feel the need to hack a MS Access forum?

Dear Mtaki_wara_al-shams,

Your SO l33t! U roxxorz! Now go do something useful like vomiting into your own eyes....

jsanders
11-16-2005, 12:34 PM
It wasn’t me my ignorance is encyclopedic

borisbruno
11-16-2005, 12:36 PM
This is really irritating!!!! So how do we get rid of it?

borisbruno
11-16-2005, 12:43 PM
Is there a way to back track this little shit and blow his computer up?!

Rich
11-17-2005, 12:05 PM
It wasn’t me my ignorance is encyclopedic
Well now that you've actually admitted it we can begin with your education :cool: :p

MrsGorilla
11-17-2005, 12:47 PM
Poor Rich. You're going to have to work to get back up to 10,000 posts. now. :rolleyes: :D

Of course, I had several hundred too that have been lost (mostly in the 'cooler :o ).

pablofonto
11-17-2005, 03:53 PM
Hey I got the same problem and I can't even now search the FORUM. I can only see the new posts and get into my profile. I also got an e-mail sent to me saying that my site was hacked. I hope they can fix this soon!

RV
11-17-2005, 04:09 PM
Poor Rich. You're going to have to work to get back up to 10,000 posts. now. :rolleyes: :D

Shhh, he might not've noticed :D

RV

Jon
11-18-2005, 12:47 AM
pablofonto, are you saying that the Search function no longer works at all? I can search and find old posts. Let me know.

Hayley Baxter
11-18-2005, 12:59 AM
pablofonto, are you saying that the Search function no longer works at all? I can search and find old posts. Let me know.

Search works for me Jon

dgoulston
11-18-2005, 02:15 AM
i would like to say that you should remove them 2 images from this thread, cause you are displaying what the hacker wanted everyone to see, giving himthe attention he obviously wanted...

Dal

Rich
11-18-2005, 03:02 AM
Search works for me Jon
You should be able to find my pics then :p

Hayley Baxter
11-18-2005, 03:08 AM
You should be able to find my pics then :p

:rolleyes:

Rich
11-18-2005, 03:10 AM
:rolleyes:
:eek: :confused:

ColinEssex
11-18-2005, 03:16 AM
What are you two like :rolleyes:

Look, here's a pic of Rich when we went out for a ride in the summer - Rich is the one on the right.

Col

http://www.tii.se/mobility/Biketalk/bikers.jpg

ColinEssex
11-18-2005, 03:28 AM
I'm sorry I posted that pic of you Rich, I think it'll keep our Hales quiet now :)

Col

Rich
11-18-2005, 03:40 AM
No worries Col, as a Gers supporter she needs something to cheer her day :D

Hayley Baxter
11-18-2005, 03:57 AM
No worries Col, as a Gers supporter she needs something to cheer her day :D

I only have to look at this and smile :D

http://www.angelfire.com/sc3/hales1873/photo_album/pic007.jpg

Hay

dgoulston
11-18-2005, 04:06 AM
just to let people know i just did an arabic translation and the text at the top of the hackers msg reads:

"A leaning is the sun mankind . A second night blindness a time Matswi in it
O Hhhhhhh's pig dr. a headache ."

Dal

Rich
11-18-2005, 04:12 AM
I only have to look at this and smile :D


Hay
Old news Hay, old news, I guess that pic's all you're going to have for a longgggggggggggg time though, take care it's starting to look tattered already :p

Hayley Baxter
11-18-2005, 04:18 AM
Old news Hay, old news, I guess that pic's all you're going to have for a longgggggggggggg time though, take care it's starting to look tattered already :p

:p

Have you been reading the papers again Rich

When the Gers go up to lift all the scottish cups we'll be there, we'll be there ;) :cool:

Ok I know we are out of one but that's the diddy cup anyway.

It's not over till the fat lady sings...and that's not me by the way :p

Hay

Rich
11-18-2005, 04:34 AM
When the Gers go up to lift all the scottish cups we'll be there, we'll be there ;) :cool:

Hay


Previous Winners

2005 Celtic 1-0 Dundee United
2004 Celtic 3-1 Dunfermline
:confused:



Ok I know we are out of one but that's the diddy cup anyway.

once the ball starts rolling, as they say

Hayley Baxter
11-18-2005, 04:55 AM
Previous Winners
2005 Celtic 1-0 Dundee United


I'm sure they would have loved to swap us the scottish for the league crown. That just happens to be their strongest competition of the three.

For the record....us & them

RANGERS

Scottish Champions (51)
Scottish Cup Winners (31)
Scottish League Cup Winners (24)

CELTIC

Scottish Champions (39)
Scottish Cup Winners (33)
Scottish League Cup Winners (12)

Need I say more...speaks for itself wouldn't you say :D

Hay

Rich
11-18-2005, 05:19 AM
I'm sure they would have loved to swap us the scottish for the league crown. That just happens to be their strongest competition of the three.

For the record....us & them

RANGERS

Scottish Champions (51)
Scottish Cup Winners (31)
Scottish League Cup Winners (24)

CELTIC

Scottish Champions (39)
Scottish Cup Winners (33)
Scottish League Cup Winners (12)

Need I say more...speaks for itself wouldn't you say :D

Hay
Memories are made of this.........................thanks for the MEMORY :p

bat1799
11-18-2005, 05:47 AM
Not only was the forum hijacked now this thread has been as well :p


Peter

Hayley Baxter
11-18-2005, 05:47 AM
Memories are made of this.........................thanks for the MEMORY :p

You're welcome and there will be many more memories to come :D

Just had these mailed to me (now you can ge tused to the Glaswegian accent) :D :p

Halloween (http://www.flamjam.com/halloween/)

Aim to Smash the Windows (http://www.chunkideas.com/snowball/)

Hay

Hayley Baxter
11-18-2005, 05:49 AM
Not only was the forum hijacked now this thread has been as well :p


Peter

I'm perfectly innocent, Rich started it :eek: I will however apologise on his behalf :) Sorry Ghudson :o

Hay

Rich
11-18-2005, 05:59 AM
I'm perfectly innocent, Rich started it Hay
No he didn't! The Americans did :p :D

jrjr
11-18-2005, 07:16 AM
Let me ask this.....
I know about the hacking.
Clicking the link below, or any of the other category link results in a blank page. I have been seeing new posts made in the different categories and suspect it may be just me that is having this trouble now.....

http://www.access-programmers.co.uk/forums/index.php?


Thats the main page for the forum. Any others such as 'General', 'Forms', etc result in the same blank page coming up for me. This happens with IE and Firefox and I have done hard refreshes.

bat1799
11-18-2005, 07:36 AM
It seems to be loggin related. I get the same with Bat17 and had to create this new nick to use the forums :(

Peter

jrjr
11-18-2005, 07:40 AM
Ok thanks, I hadn't read that anywhere yet. I will create a new one then and do some digging for more answers.

:)

WindSailor
11-18-2005, 07:44 AM
Well still blank for me with the new Firefox release... IE and Avant works OK, but just with those two...

JRJR-
11-18-2005, 07:48 AM
I am using Firefox 1.07. I just created a new account and it works ok. Works ok in IE now too.... but I lost my post count of course. Oh well, no biggie

Ally
11-18-2005, 08:03 AM
Well Col said he had just started being nice to a couple of the Americans ... that's what I think went wrong! It couldn't cope with the unusuality! :D

WindSailor
11-18-2005, 08:07 AM
No go with the Firefox 1.5 RC 3.
Home page is ok... but the forums are blank, nada, zip.
Odd it fails with Firefox, but OK with IE and Avant.

L'apprentis
11-18-2005, 08:07 AM
Can't F*!!!*g believe it! That really suck men. Ken fit I meen...

seth_belgium
11-18-2005, 08:44 AM
Welcome to the age of arabic cyber-terrorism... :(

WindSailor
11-18-2005, 09:36 AM
Ahhhh... You have to delete your cookie.
Before I deleted my cookie, everything was blank with Firefox, after deleting it, the forums show up again.
Now, whats in the cookie thats has your latest info that would make the site invisible?

------------
That part of it had to be recent and accessable to all....
They... he, she or it... also changed or altered the cookie so no one could re-visit the site... interesting...

JRJR-
11-18-2005, 09:52 AM
On logout I receive a message stating that the cookie has been deleted. I didn't delete all cookies but maybe if I did my old account would work.... is that what you are saying?

Edit:
Nope that didn't work
I deleted all cookies and still no go with old account.... bummer

WindSailor
11-18-2005, 10:23 AM
I just went through my browser options and deleted the cookie for this site, actually all of them for this site ( I think there were about six, one was bblastactivity, bbsessionhash, bbuserid, bbuserpassword, bbthread_lastview, bblastvisit ).

Does this mean they also have our IP address? Antivirus updated.

WindSailor
11-18-2005, 11:05 AM
It means that I have been up for almost twenty two hours and have had waaaaay tooo much coffee.:eek:

It could be due to reloading of the site... I honestly don't know. I will leave it to the experts... definitely time for bed.

greaseman
11-18-2005, 11:11 AM
So anyway...... what happened to the forum ?!?!?!?! I hope it recovers well! Hacking or hijacked.... they're about the same, and to think some yo-yo has to make it bad for the rest of us royally ticks me off!

JRJR-
11-18-2005, 11:55 AM
I just went through my browser options and deleted the cookie for this site, actually all of them for this site ( I think there were about six, one was bblastactivity, bbsessionhash, bbuserid, bbuserpassword, bbthread_lastview, bblastvisit ).

Does this mean they also have our IP address? Antivirus updated.

It's odd that it worked for you and not for me. One day the answer will surface i'm sure.

jrjr
11-18-2005, 01:40 PM
I was having the same problem, not being able to log in except through threads I had subscriptions to. So I went to my options screen and changed my forum skin to use Forum default. It then let me in.
I didn't have to recreate my account.


Awesome!!
I did the same thing...changed to forum default skin and now my original account works!! Thanks for the tip
:D

ColinEssex
11-21-2005, 12:57 AM
No worries Col, as a Gers supporter she needs something to cheer her day :D
well it wasn't the result of the Celtic game last saturday that cheered our Hales, thats for sure (Gers lost BTW)

Col

Rich
11-21-2005, 02:12 AM
well it wasn't the result of the Celtic game last saturday that cheered our Hales, thats for sure (Gers lost BTW)

Col
I wonder if Roy can be persuaded to move further North? Even a has been could be useful for them :D

ColinEssex
11-21-2005, 03:35 AM
I wonder if Roy can be persuaded to move further North? Even a has been could be useful for them :D
The Gers may do better with Linnaker, St and Greavsy, the Charlton brothers, Nobby Stiles, Peter Bonetti, Geoff Hurst and the like.

Still we mustn't go on about the Gers as our Hales in on hols this week ;) I had a text from her on saturday, I'm not sure she was too happy :(

Col

Ashtex
11-21-2005, 06:10 AM
MOVE ON UP you F'N Nubsauce.... You hacked a Bulletin Board... You want a cookie?


(This is the first thing I thought when I recieved an E-Mail this morning from jon... but not really from jon... saying that the site was hacked...)

I didn't think replying would get to the person I really mean to direct this comment to... but if a so-called hacker is so proud to be "hacking" the bbs... they will be back to check the response of everyone in the forums....


PREDICTABLE FTL....

Ashtex

pablofonto
11-21-2005, 09:14 AM
Jon,

Sorry I didn't respond earlier but I was out of town. I can search the Archived forum, but I cannot search the forum from the initial screen where you can search FORMS, TABLES, QUERIES, etc. The only way I can search them is if I'm log off, but the minute I log on I can't search them anymore. The problem with this is that I need to be logged on in order to reply to posts or even create a new Thread, it's weird but don't know why is not working.

Pablo

pablofonto
11-21-2005, 09:21 AM
pablofonto, are you saying that the Search function no longer works at all? I can search and find old posts. Let me know.

Jon,

Sorry I didn't respond earlier but I was out of town. I can search the Archived forum, but I cannot search the forum from the initial screen where you can search FORMS, TABLES, QUERIES, etc. The only way I can search them is if I'm log off, but the minute I log on I can't search them anymore. The problem with this is that I need to be logged on in order to reply to posts or even create a new Thread, it's weird but don't know why is not working.
Just to provide a little bir more info, the original address I was using to access the forum was the one below which it's still not working.

http://www.access-programmers.co.uk/forums/index.php

Pablo

pablofonto
11-21-2005, 01:50 PM
I fixed my problem by changing the forum option to default.

Thanks for the tip Selenau837 and JrJr!

supercharge
11-22-2005, 08:49 AM
I just wonder about whether if this hijack-scenario should have been reported to the FBI for investigation or not. The name seems to be a Middle-Eastern name.

Is it just me smelling "terror"?

Kraj
11-22-2005, 09:00 AM
Is it just me smelling "terror"?
I think the more likely scenario is that's what the jackass wants you to think.