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gster1984

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My forums recently were hacked into and spammed like crazy with over 7k members all sending out emails and such. I was worried about what happened and deleted the database as well as the directory and anything related. I have just re-uploaded and installed a brand new version of phpbb3 forums and even changed the new directory path. Do you think i'm safer now? what im asking is can you do some sort of check on my account and/or forums please. Thank you.
 

kadai

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The better way to be safe, is to take preventive measures X3
For example, always use the most up-to-date available software. Use ways to prevent the bots to register (aka: CAPTCHA and require mail verification, or if you are completely paranoiac, you can manually authorize each new user and ban IPs that look like bots)

There are ways to be safe, but the most important of all... always think that there out are millions of bots awaiting for a chance.
 
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