Selling Game Accounts...

Mon, 07 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT

I have a few members that want to make post on my forums trying to selling old game accounts, such as Everquest or World of Warcraft accounts. While its an iffy subject, whats the legality iss...

12-year-old member...

Sun, 06 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT

I've just noticied that a 12-year-old member has joined my forum. I don't have COPPA enabled and I do not deny registrations for under 13's. I have all adult content password protected but I'm not...

Can Anyone Tell Me What This Script Does?...

Fri, 04 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT

I was checking my WOL today and I noticed a Mexican IP trying to run an old Vbulletin Exploit. This is the script. Does anyone know specifically what this does? Code:

spammer linked to child pornography website...

Mon, 30 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Today, I looked up a member of my forum who registered using a very weird username, and found out that his e-mail address was linked to a porn website that had pix of children wearing only their u...

Keep a lookout for JaMaYcKa...

Wed, 25 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Over the past week I've noticed a lot of forums that have been hacked by JaMaYcKa. The forums hacked were across the board in terms of software choice ranging from vB, ipb, phpbb and more. I did...

copy backup to local machine each morning?...

Fri, 20 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT

I've been using the backupscript.sh tutorial to zip up my database each night, but so far have been leaving it on the server instead of getting it onto my hard drive each morning. Really must fix...

Legal Question part 2...

Sat, 14 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Ok well several emails have gone back and forth with this member and her family which were also members. Now they are threatening (even though they say they aren't threatening) to hack my site and...

Registration Agreements...

Wed, 11 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Did anyone do anything special to their registration agreements? I just used the SMF default, but tried to make it friendlier by replacing "this forum" with the actual forum name and by ...

Legal Question...kind of important!...

Wed, 11 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT

There is a person(staffer) on my site that I demoted last night and ultimately banned today. She is causing tons of problems, so we banned all of her ip's so she can't access the site. I do know t...

Which anti-spam hacks do you use?...

Tue, 03 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT

I'm trying to collect add-ons, hacks and other tips to limit access of my forum to spammers. But it seems that everything I've found comes with a downside:Ban domain names: I have added over 260 d...

Spammers using .org tld...

Mon, 26 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Is it just me, or every one else is also noticing a recent spur in spam bot registrations from .org tlds? ...

Holy S***...

Fri, 09 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT

This sums it up: http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/6871/statsic6.jpg [http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/6871/statsic6.jpg]> Yep, I got 2,000 UNIQUE visitors in one day. The thing is, my average ...

How to prevent downloader program...

Sat, 03 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT

I make a music online website that use Flash to handle mp3 from remote host. File locations are handled by PHP (Links and Download Manger plugin of vBulletin) However, PC which has InternetDownloa...

Getting worried...

Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Hi guys I have amember that has the same ip address as me When i check my posts and click the ip button there username comes up aswell. I also have an advanced search in my admin con...

Urgent - Just hacked...

Sun, 25 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT

OK, my site was just hacked. Luckily, the hacker was pretty retarded (so I thought) and I fixed up the problems almost instantly. However, as a security precaution, I decided to change my cpanel p...

couple of legal issues i want to find out...

Sun, 25 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT

1) Why do we have to leave the copyright notice of VB company on our forum eventhough we paid for the license? and why do they have power to tell our host to take our website down if we deleted th...

Are your test accounts unsecure?...

Wed, 21 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT

About half an hour ago, I came across a forum that disabled guest searching. For some reason, my attention turned to the login box. I simply typed in the username and password 'test' and bingo - i...

Your terms of service...

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT

What are your TOS? If anyone needs help writing theirs I am pretty good at it (I wrote the entire thing myself - our lawyer found a total of 1 mistake in a 6 page document). Also what issues...

This forum description:...

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Quote: protect...from hacking... [originally, someone who makes furniture with an axe] 1. A person who enjoys exploring the details of programmable syst...

What, if anything, should I do differently for minors?...

Mon, 19 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT

I just had a 12 year old sign up for one of my forums. To my knowledge this is the first person under 13 who's signed up since I took over that board, and I'm wondering what/how much I should do ...

How do I report spammer to his ISPs?...

Sat, 17 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT

A registered user came one night and posted pix of gay guys at an orgy, followed by a very long and very graphic list of sexual activities. I deleted the post of course and banned him, but he ...

spammers in Vbulletin ??...

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT

I just want to know how to protect from spammers from registering and posting unrelated topics in our forums? please help and discuss here. thnks ...

Legal Issues...

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Hello, I was wondering if there is any legal issues surrounding a cannabis cultivation forum. I already know i have to find a specialist host but i was wondering if there was anything else i s...

"Could Not Resolve Hostname"...

Thu, 08 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Spam got out of control on our site so each day we have to go through new registrations and activate them by hand. Even with the email confirm on if we didn't do this it would be a mess. Some...

Asking permission for photos...

Thu, 01 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT

What's the proper protocal for this? Let's say you want to review a product that you really like on your website, and of course you want to put a picture along with your review. Is in bad taste to...

BoardTracker - Security

Selling Game Accounts...

12-year-old member...

Can Anyone Tell Me What This Script Does?...

spammer linked to child pornography website...

Keep a lookout for JaMaYcKa...

copy backup to local machine each morning?...

Legal Question part 2...

Registration Agreements...

Legal Question...kind of important!...

Which anti-spam hacks do you use?...

Spammers using .org tld...

Holy S***...

How to prevent downloader program...

Getting worried...

Urgent - Just hacked...

couple of legal issues i want to find out...

Are your test accounts unsecure?...

Your terms of service...

This forum description:...

What, if anything, should I do differently for minors?...

How do I report spammer to his ISPs?...

spammers in Vbulletin ??...

Legal Issues...

"Could Not Resolve Hostname"...

Asking permission for photos...