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03-08-2005, 06:39 PM
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Trojans and forums
I have a friend that runs a forum for kids through Proboards that has been getting complaints of people getting or blocking trojans when going to the board. Since I have never messed with the workings of a forum, I need some help in what steps he should be taking to find out if indeed there are trojans are his board or what may be going on. Any help appreciated.
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03-08-2005, 09:52 PM
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Barefoot on the Moon!
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What forum software is he using?
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03-09-2005, 04:03 PM
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03-09-2005, 05:09 PM
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Barefoot on the Moon!
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First thing he can do is a virus and trojan scan on the server.
AVG: http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php Housecall AV: http://housecall.trendmicro.com/ Trojan Scan: http://www.windowsecurity.com/trojanscan/trojanscan.asp Then if the trojan is found, try updating the forum software, for there may be vulnerabilites. |
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03-09-2005, 11:31 PM
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If Proboards is providing and hosting his forum, can he still do a virus scan or is that something they have to do? Thanks for the help FF.
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03-11-2005, 08:27 AM
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I would have him contact Proboards. I have a customer whose website was serving out some malicious Javascript - he contacted the host and it was taken care of immediately. Apparently the site got hacked.
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03-11-2005, 01:43 PM
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yea invision boards got attacked the other day but didn't get very far evryones patched up now
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03-11-2005, 09:39 PM
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Thanks all. I advised him yesterday to check with proboards. They stated that they were clean and to check images the members were posting that were hosted on other sites.
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