Lucy wrote: > 2009/6/30 John <jake...@sky.com>: > >> Hi Lucy, >> >> Having checked that, it proved very useful, as they are trying very hard >> not to answer any of my queries directly, plus it was around that time >> that they admitted to having a problem, and when I questioned them about >> and told them I knew it was the same person that made that attack and >> this one, why is it he is still able to attack the server. To which they >> stopped answering my messages. They tried to tell me that it was a multi >> IP attack, by many different computers, to which I gave the address as >> proof, to show them it was just one person. Not happy they arent. >> >> I'm not happy either that they wont help me and show me what exactly was >> the problem with my site. Its been very frustrating. >> > > I'm sorry to hear you're still having problems with them, but not > entirely surprised :/ > > As your sites have been restored any evidence will have been removed > about what happened. I would recommend double-checking that you're > running the latest version of Wordpress and phpbb, plus any plugins > you use for both sites. Then start reading up about securing them - I > don't know enough to properly advise unfortunately. I would say that > it's impossible to guarantee stopping this happening again but you can > reduce the chances by taking these steps. > > If your ISP are happy to continue hosting the sites then I'd guess > that the problem has been fixed for now. > > I hope you manage to sort things out. Might be worth starting a new > thread about cheap hosting providers if not! > > Best wishes > > Just to add to this - WordPress 2.8 was released a few weeks back. Might be worth updating to that version, and make sure that your plugins are updated ASAP.
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