SECURITY FIX! Users using any version prior to 1.5.1

[David]

I got nine of them and do not care.  As you can see, THIS IS IMPORTANT!!!!  Apply the fix, if you need help applying it contact me and I will try to help.

Attached is a fixed Packages file for 1.4.1.  Rename it to Packages.php and upload it.  I did this for those who do not wish to modify their sources by hand.

[drinkitbitch]

Thats BS.. one is enuf.. anymore is just spam.

I disagree.

Like you said yourself, not everyone lives on the internet. Just because you happened to fix the error after only 4 emails, doesnt mean everyone else did as well.

Maybe 9 was a bit excessive, but had they only sent one, I more than likely would have ignored it. I often ignore announcements, but the fact that there were nine made me very curious.

They seem to think this is a major issue that everyone needs to fix and just one email wont get everyone's attention, but 9 definitely or hopefully will.

[Overseer]

naww sending the same thing multiple time is just ignorant IMO.

one is enough... and my previous comment was meant to highlight that it may not be ignored because of '1' email but because people might not read their email for a day.

now... whats even more dumb now is that when u read one of these these other emails the actual post has been deleted... so u end up with a "topic does not exist error" ... ummm duh!!!

[David]

naww sending the same thing multiple time is just ignorant IMO.

one is enough... and my previous comment was meant to highlight that it may not be ignored because of '1' email but because people might not read their email for a day.

now... whats even more dumb now is that when u read one of these these other emails the actual post has been deleted... so u end up with a "topic does not exist error" ... ummm duh!!!

I think you have expressed your dislike of recieving 9 e-mails enough in this thread.  Let those that may need help with this fix speak without the constant flaming.

[Overseer]

actually.. i just realised deleting those topics has done more harm because someone reading their email would most likely read the newestt one and see topic doesnt exist.. would they be patient enough to check all nine  - or whatever figure we end up at?

[Overseer]

naww sending the same thing multiple time is just ignorant IMO.

one is enough... and my previous comment was meant to highlight that it may not be ignored because of '1' email but because people might not read their email for a day.

now... whats even more dumb now is that when u read one of these these other emails the actual post has been deleted... so u end up with a "topic does not exist error" ... ummm duh!!!

I think you have expressed your dislike of recieving 9 e-mails enough in this thread.  Let those that may need help with this fix speak without the constant flaming.

only answering replies to my earlier questions  

[Compuart]

Yes, something went wrong with the announcement script here. I've applied some fixes, and the mail sending seems to have stopped.

We sincerely apoligise for the inconvenience this has caused.

[Overseer]

ok thats cool.

[Mike Healan]

Jeez... Get a grip. With as many registered users as there are, do you really think they intended to send 10 of the same email to everyone? It's obviously a bug or a glitch. Report it and be done with it.
Considering how serious this is, I wouldn't care if the server burped and I got 100 of them. Some damned hacker emailed my password to me. If he had decided he didn't like me, all the warning I would've gotten would have been an emptied sql database.

[UNICRON]

Jeez... Get a grip. With as many registered users as there are, do you really think they intended to send 10 of the same email to everyone? It's obviously a bug or a glitch. Report it and be done with it.
Considering how serious this is, I wouldn't care if the server burped and I got 100 of them. Some damned hacker emailed my password to me. If he had decided he didn't like me, all the warning I would've gotten would have been an emptied sql database.

agreed

[yensid4him]

Hey I appreciate the 9 emails I got... I'm one of the ones that might have ignored just one announcement email, but having 9 made me decide it was pretty important.  I did get the "topic doesn't exist" message but navigated my way over here to this one just fine...

Also wanted to say thanks to whoever included the packages.txt file with the fix for download... I'm a good coder, but I also like to save time whenever possible!

One suggestion for those setting up new boards... my board didn't get hit by a hacker, nor did I get an email with my password in it, perhaps due to the fact that when I installed my board I changed the directory name from "yabbse" to "msgboard" ... hackers wouldn't be able to search the web and come across my board as easily based on the url alone.

- holly

[Jeff Lewis]

I apologize for the multiple emails but really is it worth bitching over? We sent out an announcement for this before and apparently not everyone thought it was important enough to apply the fix.

If the little problem with the extra emails saves at least one persons forum I'm fine with that.

I sent the announcement and left to visit my parents, my apologies to those that were so angered by a few extra emails in the inbox and my thanks to those that were understanding.

[Snoopy_5]

Jeff I just wanted to say thanks for sending out the word about this fix a second time.  Without this notice I would still be exposed.

I am one of the ones who didnt bother to change or fix my site after the first message, mainly because I didnt get the first message.  I did get the multiple messages this morning though,which didnt bother me except to press the urgency of the matter.

Keep up the good work

[Jeff Lewis]

Thanks Snoopy. Not sure why Overseer is so mad...his messages table got seriously corrupted this week and he should ask Corey who was helping fix it...so a few extra emails by accident shouldn't be too hard to swallow

[TurboXS]

I feel terribly sorry for mentioning the multiple message stuff.

Keep up the great work with this board software.

Regards