Did you all receice that huge amount of password reset mails

[Mike Herbst]

Hi all,

i got 615 of that password reset mails.

For me it's not a good sign that the company just close the forum without a date when it will come back.

Maybe the have no backups :-)

Mike

[danarnell]

i got around 60 , posted on the forums about then it 404'd

[Marcus Heider]

I got round 225 mails.

[Royal Panda]

Hi,

I got plenty of it too.

But the disappointing thing is that it came in three steps :

- I posted a message saying my bad feeling about Via and Wondermedia, a few hours later the forum was spammed and unreadable.

- Then a couple of day later, the forum have been "cleaned" from the spam and my post vanished too.

- Then now, everything is down.

I don't know who is behind this forum, but my guess is that vanilla forum wasn't a good solution.


Royal Panda

[Mike Herbst]

Hi Royal Panda,

this google thing was my idea - at weekend i sorted and muck out my email  which i have received during the week. had a closer look at this password reset mails and found more than 1000 email addresses in the CC field.
So I thought - users should deside if this APC project should keep alive or not - i have no trust in VIA/APC ... they even didn't support this project halfhearted.
I my eyes it has had a huge potential - but VIA/APC drop the ball. i think they did not know what market they are aiming - there is a way to make money with but not in this manner.

every 40 bucks tablet or phone have a more satisfying version of Android .... and my raspberry pi's linux is really doozy.

yes this vanilla forum is may be not the best solution .... but for a interim time it was the fastest for me - what do you suggest?

Greetings from Berlin, Germany

Mike

[Marcus Heider]

I get a mail from Michael Fox this morning.

Hello Marcus,

Our forum was hacked so we have shut it down while we look for a more secure option. It should eb back up very soon.

We apologize for this.

Best regards,

Michael

more secure option? Do it right at the first time and you'll have noch problems -.-"

[giovanni.v]

I don't like vanilla but like with any piece of software exposed in the net to a wide audience keeping it updated is not an option.

Probably the apc.aio forum got an attack using this vulnerability:
- http://tinyurl.com/cvr3752
As you can see above that was a known issue and a patch was released time ago.

However, switching off could be considered suspicious since it's happened immediately after Royal Panda, I and others have clearly pointed out our complaints against the apc/WonderMedia/Via policy.

Just after the forum cleanup from spam the thread started from Royal Panda was also deleted so I restarted another one on the very same subject and feeling... a minute later the apc forum was offline.

[Royal Panda]

And this is not the first time the forum is down, without talking of spam and thread savaging deleted.

My opinion is that a forum without APC supervision would be a good thing, even if they re-up their own forum.
So, nice job Mr Herbst, and let see if there is anyone still interested by working with this board.

[Dans34]

looks like the forum is back up now , using the same software as before , i hope they patched it 

[Marcus Heider]

I think nothing has changed there. same shite like before, Spamposts and so on.