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Barbeirosa
Joined: 01 Feb 2007
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 Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 12:57 pm Post subject: |
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| tekproxy wrote: | | My forums did that for a while, but only with Opera and not every time. Have you upgraded to the newest version? That may fix it. After a lot of mess with PHPBB2, no offense to the devs, it's open source and free, I switched to another forum and never looked back. |
Kudos to you there. Free Software these days has a lot higher quality than it has in the past; Just look at the Linux and BSD options out there. But there are some examples of free software that really give the whole thing a very bad name. PHPBB is just a huge, bug-ridden, wide-open piece of crap that needs lots and lots of effort to make it somewhat 'safe' to use, and even then, it seems almost a weekly event that another SQL injection hack is found against it. And of course, things like the issue in this thread, too.
With PHPBB being used on so many sites, finding trivial-to-use exploits either for 'botting' accounts and posts, or actually exploiting the web site or even the web server itself through PHPBB is just way too easy. And often, when people end up having to fix PHPBB bugs themselves, they start to create problems patching in future updates to PHPBB itself, and the mess just gets worse. |
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