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[Scott Roberts]

I'm relieved to finally have the site back. Here's what's happened the past few days:

After scouring the website logs for several hours on Monday, I found out how the
hacker got in. He screwed with the search function on the boards, typed in
some code and was able to make himself an administrator (!), thereby giving him
access to purge a large portion of the database. I've since found a fix for
the security hole. I've also found the fucker's IP address and blocked him.

I also tried to restore the database from the last backup I had (which was dated 12/12/04). Three failed attempts were made. One attempt took over 24 hours writing out each SQL statement one by one by the automated restore script, and stalled at about 70% completion. The other two failed completely for some reason (corruption in the database records, perhaps?) Anyway, a restoration from the week of 12/6/04 was successful, so here we are.

I apologize for any loss of posts, private messages, or any other other changes anyone might have made over the past few weeks. But I'd rather have an old board than no board at all.

With all that said, I wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! I'd also like to thank everyone for all of their support they've given me, the website, and the community over the past year. It's truly all the great traders helping one another that has made it worth maintaining this site. Thanks! :thumb:

[VHLIVE]

Scott, thank you doesnt seem like quite enough. This site means alot to many of us and having it down for nearly a week just about drove us nuts. Thanks for getting it back up and running. I was not looking forward to having to spend more time with my relatives over the holidays, now the site is back up i have have an excuse....lol.

Happy Holidays to you and your family Scott and to everyone here at vhtrading

Shawn

[ks34vh]

Thank Godness your back, I missed you. Thanks for all your hard work this past year making this site the best, and for helping my collection grow, and meeting some really cool people.
Merry Christmas and thanks.. :p

ks34vh
kevin
Pittsburgh Steeler Country

[vh15]

Geeze, after reading that post, there are not enough thanks you's out there, but thanks for ALL THE TIME you spent doing what you did! Frickin' A!

That Focker can go 'Meet The Fockers!'

You owe no apologies and your statement "But I'd rather have an old board than no board at all" says it all!


Thanks again :thumb: :dance:

[liquid_steel_az]

I agree with all of the above. Thanks for all your hard work Scott! You Rock!:thumb:

Hope you have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, bro!

Wes :cool:

[TheFish]

Thank God we're back! Thanks for all the work Scott! :thumb:
I didn't realize how often I swing by here!
I was gettin' kinda tired of jerkin' with those ego-mods over at vhforums! :D

[frankm]

ScottRoberts wrote: After scouring the website logs for several hours on Monday, I found out how the
hacker got in. He screwed with the search function on the boards, typed in
some code and was able to make himself an administrator (!), thereby giving him
access to purge a large portion of the database. I've since found a fix for
the security hole. I've also found the fucker's IP address and blocked him.

Dang, Scott. That's somethin'! Hopefully this won't happen again. I sometimes wonder why this a-holes do things like that. Scary how they figure that stuff out. Thanks for all you do on this site. Scott, you DA MAN !

[ect5150]

frankm wrote: Scary how they figure that stuff out. Thanks for all you do on this site. Scott, you DA MAN !

The majority of them don't figure it out. A few select people do, then post the exploits somewhere for people to use. Its amazing how many attacks in my weblogs I see for an IIS Server (thankfully I use Apache myself). Just my expierence with it.

Good to have the boards back up. Post his IP so we can attack him! :thumb: :thumb:

[villafan]

many thanks to you and all you do

have a great xmas Scott

regards
Villafan

[clb]

thanks santa scott ,you gave me what I wanted for christmas

[guitard]

Scott,

You da man!

I feel like offering you my first born daughter - thank God I've only got sons!

Randy

[kennyr]

Happy holidays to all.Be safe & happy!

All the best,
Kenny

[Anonymous]

Scott!

Thanks for your hard work getting this site back up and running :D
Wishing everybody here a Merry Christmas :thumb:

[Hey Now!]

Thanks Scott and Happy Hoildays!!!!! :thumb:

[Scallions]

Thanks for the effort and I hope your holidays are great!

Now let's get DLR SMILE WILD by S.T.O.H. Prod seeded out!!

Thanks agaiun man, if it wasn't for your site and all the great traders my collection of VH would be pathetic.

Shawn