If you search for "powered by phpbb" in google and click next it will tell you your infected by a virus =P http://www.google.com/search?q=powe...=&rls=GGLG,GGLG:2005-20,GGLG:en&start=10&sa=N Evidently the massive scanning for exploitable forums has triped googles alarms. yay opensource
This is from when the Santy worms were using autmated queries to search Google for phpbb's before last Christmas - so Google blocked off searches that santy was using, ie "Powered by phpbb": http://www.platinax.co.uk/news/archives/2004/12/phpbb_worms_mul.html
Just keep your forum up-to-date, sign up for the phpbb newsletter, and update asap. You'll be safe from 99% of hackers, etc. phpBB newsletter signup: http://www.phpbb.com/support/
Hi- posts like this make me want to scream... no offense to you ill tell you why if you care- My phpbb2 forum has almost 200k users. it gets massive amounts of traffic. I am targeted constantly because of the weight and success of my site. I have been defaced 2 times since last january. Both times it was up for less then 5 minutes before I was paged and I fixed it and also pluged the hole. The problem is when you are the initial or one of the initial targets for defacement there is no patch. YOU ARE THE ONE SUBMITING THE PATCH and information on how you were exploited. I have submited 5 patches so far this year to the phpbb2 group. Everyday I study my logs and look for what people are trying to post to. I then test it on my devbox and see if there is infact a exploitable hole there.
ahh this should make everyone feel much safer then =P knowing google seems to think its still a problem
I've got 25 forums, and never been down for more than a few minutes. ANY popular application is going to need security fixes.
yea considering I moved to vbullliten like a long long long time ago... even before the guy sugested it lol... phpbb died about the 150k user mark
I would export your existing forum to vBulletin if i was you, it's a lot more secure and better, i have it since a week, i'm loving it.