As I've now discovered the infection that took down our old forums, not once but twice, I felt I had to post this message.

The Site was infected by a large attack against Dreamhost itself, it wasn't just us, nor was it just twp.nosync.org, all of my sites were infected. Basically, Dreamhost had some issues back in December with Usernames/Password being stolen, and while I reset all of mine other shared hosting users might not have listened to Dreamhost in time. This allowed the hackers to gain access to the servers, to which they ran some scripting that managed to breakout of their compromised user's area of ownership and infect other users on the same servers with the same virus.

Anyway, I've been busy cleaning my files, and it looks like my php files were modified with the virus twice over the last 2 months. The Virus in question that it redirects you to is Troj/Badsrc-M, which seems was blocked by my AdBlocker software in Firefox.

You'll want to make sure you're clean though, so I would recommend that you try Sophos' Virus Removal Tool, it's free and should find anything that might have infected your system.

Virus Details: http://www.sophos.com/en-us/threat-cente...lysis.aspx
Sophos Virus Removal Tool: http://www.sophos.com/en-us/products/fre...nload.aspx

I'm sorry it took me so long to find the cause but there it is.

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Alright, after hard work this weekend I'm able to say welcome back to the Forums. Things look a little different here, and that's because we've switched from Invision Power Board (IPB) to MyBB! MyBB has most of the features of IPB we've come to love, seems to be faster, and I have got to say, far easier to style than the old IPB. Hopefully we don't have to make a move like this again anytime soon.

Additionally MyBB is 100% Free and Open Source, so it won't require cash to keep it up to date.

Things will be in change over the next few weeks as I try to tackle making the forums look more homely (and get all our smilies back in working order!)

Sorry for that folks, not sure what happened but we should be good to go now.

Let me know if you see anything out of place.

So, for those of you that have lamented the loss of the Regional Message Feed when we upgraded in December, have I got a treat for you today!

The Regional Message Feed and Archive is now up and running! Check it out HERE, or just go to the Services Menu at the top and choose the (currently only option) Regional Message Feed link.

Once it loads up you'll see by default it will display all the messages from the previous 24 hours, but that there is now also an awesome search feature in the upper right (which you can toggle to show or hide via the Green Button right above it). You can search for a Date Range (say you wanted to search from December 12th, 2010, until today you could do that now, and catch up on all the messages you missed between the forum upgrade and now.
Alternatively, you can search for messages by a specific player/nation, or by Keyword. Keyword can search for 1 word or a phrase, but keep in mind that that if you search for the word "Ouch" it will also find words that have ouch in them, like "Touch", or "Couch". Additionally it should be noted you can not use wild card searches for the keyword search.

Additionally, I'm working on adding in some Moderation options for the Administrators here, so we can mark known SPAMer accounts so they don't show up in the feed, unless you specify in your search you want to see them, but that is neither here nor there. I'll post details on that feature set once it's finished, I just wanted to get this back out into the open....I mean what's the point of collecting all that data if I'm not going to do anything with it .

Well, I don't know about the rest of you, but I was getting tired of seeing the old and <b></b> html code sitting out in the open, not working in member titles, so this morning I built my first "Hook" for Invision Power Board 3.1.x (basically a new way of modifying your forums without actually having to edit the core files. Quite nice I have to say).

So now, if you want to Bold, Underline, Strike-through, or make your member title (or some part of it) Italic you can! The code will also accept Colourizing!

I've limited it to the following codes, as the Member Titles don't need the same level of BBCode as posts, but I think this should make for a nice change. Let me know if you have any troubles.

Welcome to our new digs. I haven't had a chance to finish reworking the old skin into the new forum, so the overall decor will be changing over the next few weeks as I update it.

For now the Header is all that's been changed from the default IPBoard skin, and yes, I know, it only has one header image. I haven't worked out how to include my random banner script into the new forum code yet.

Sorry for the longer than planned outage, but I took the site down, did my backups and then when I tried to put the software up onto the site it turned out the server had some settings I had to fine tune...which of course, meant I had to get a hold of dreamhost to get them to allow me to edit my own php configuration. Once that was done I attempted to update the forum (which I had done on test databases on my own server at home already with ease) but due to other speed related issues, it kept timing out, so I eventually used the data from my backups to perform the "Upgrade" on a faux server at home, and then uploaded the finished product to here.

Hope you enjoy the new look and features. I'm still discovering some of the new stuff they have in here so if you find something that you think others will enjoy feel free to post about it!

Also, it should be noted that I'm seeing some odd Layer effects when scrolling topics...that will be the focus of my first fixes tomorrow morning, but for now I'm burnt out from the upgrade process, so to bed with me.

Just a heads up that I'm currently working on updating the forum skin for Invision Power Board 3.1, and as such, once it's down I will need to take down the forums for at least 2-3 hours, depending on how fast the conversion of the database goes, we could be up sooner, or later.

I've already done the conversion once on a copy of the site on my personal server, but lets just say that doing it on a test system I have total 100% control of vs. a server my hosting company controls could be different results in time lines.
Thank you for your patience and understanding.

I believe that it won't be happening until 10-11pm tonight if I'm ready. I'll post updates as the day and development progresses.

Once the upgrades are complete I'll bring the board back online, but keep in mind that some features might not be available as of yet, such as the dice rolling program, so if you want to try to get the last decisive roll in better do it now!

Until further notice all new user registrations require Administrative Review. Until they've been reviewed, no posting will be allowed by the new users.

Just so everyone is aware, we're moving to a new 64-bit server in Dreamhost's Datacentre sometime this week, so there maybe some limited downtime.

If I find out more I'll let you know, but at the moment I don't know much beyond the fact it's happening this week sometime.

I'm going to miss Happy (the current name of our 32-bit server.) We've been hosted on Happy since the very beginning so it's a bit of a change for us.

As of this time The Cookie Lovers of Limitless Events is 5 years old. Created at 7:31:44 on Feb 2nd, 2005.

As such, for the next 4 and a half hours drinks are on me, get them before you have to get me some.