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"So, did Freeola get hacked or not?"

Well, we all know how much I loved my large collection of games and how long it took me to find them don't we?

Guess what.

They've gone.

So have the pictures.

So have my silly little flash animations and downloads.

So did the forum I had up.

I've just noticed that the forum didn't work when I checked on Monday. I don't know how, but whoever/whatever did it only deleted stuff from my folders containing the larger files. The folder with my reviews wasn't touched.

I'm annoyed now. Because I actually said I would back them all up because I haven't got a copy of them anymore! So I have no games.

:c(

I'm gonna email Freeola tomorrow just to find out if they had any problems. I've got to find all the piccies and get all the games back again now.

And re-upload them.

And pay money.

Damn.

This is Phil, P8ssed off, signing out to have a shower because I smell!

Goodbye.

For 15 minutes.

On my site, all the files in the root level of HTDOCS have gone, but it looks like the folders within HTDOCS are intact. I also had a folder at the same level as HTDOCS, and that has been emptied.

monkey_man wrote:
>
> I had a look at my control panel and everything off the HTDOCS folder
> has gone, except other folders. Weird that.

phi11ip wrote:
> monkey_man wrote:
> Yeah, I do something similar to that.
>
> ~did~

No, "do". I incorporate that system into any site I make using PHP. So I practice it, which means I "do".

~done~

I'll be very interested to hear what Freeola say ... I'm pretty sure that my site didnt have any variable includes of the sort you're describing, but I'll check to make sure.


phi11ip wrote:
>
> I'm gonna ring Freeola later on tonight and ask about the sites...
>
> See what they say. No news on anything.

monkey_man wrote:
> Yeah, I do something similar to that.

~did~

phi11ip wrote:
> cjh wrote:
>
> What is the code that you've been given to block the external URL's?
> I'd assume its something to do with the eregi() function checking
> for
> a http or something.com from with the $page variable.
>
> > if (!$page) $page="mainpage"; //If $page is not defined
> by user, set it to 'main'
>
> if(file_exists("/all the root folders/$page.php"))
> {
> include("/all the root folders/$page.php");
> }
> else {
> include("/all the root folders/404.php");
> }
> ?
>
> Let's you include a 404 page too which is good. Gets rid of the dodgy
> errors that appear when things go wrong!

Yeah, I do something similar to that.

Do Freeola allow that?

No!

I'm gonna ring Freeola later on tonight and ask about the sites...

See what they say. No news on anything.

.htaccess can also create error pages quite easily :)

cjh wrote:

> What is the code that you've been given to block the external URL's?
> I'd assume its something to do with the eregi() function checking for
> a http or something.com from with the $page variable.

if (!$page) $page="mainpage"; //If $page is not defined by user, set it to 'main'

if(file_exists("/all the root folders/$page.php"))
{
include("/all the root folders/$page.php");
}
else {
include("/all the root folders/404.php");
}
?>

Let's you include a 404 page too which is good. Gets rid of the dodgy errors that appear when things go wrong!

i filled out one of those forms a few months back and never got a response. Which is one of the reasons i am moving my host :-)

I'd guess that LOADS of people would have filled out those forms. They're gonna have to put the backups back for us, too many people have lost too much for them to say 'No'.

And m_m, you've just basically connected to your site and looked at the files manually. I thought the control panael had the option allowing you to view all the files and stuff without dialing up.

We'll see what happens tomorrow. See if they sort it out.