Hacked??!!??

[Morgan55]

Anyone know what to do if you have a site hosted by powweb that has been hacked? I get a message at the front page of my site, that says three users had been there, with a not so nice message afterwards. They seem to have set it on an infinite error loop so you can never actually get past the popup message. Any suggestions? Ive never encountered this before.

site is Http://forums.fanviews.comHttp://forums.fanviews.com

[Starr]

The only way any site on a Powweb server can be hacked is if you open up a security hole by using FrontPage improperly, and/or by using any of those PHPNuke style sites/forums.

[Mirzabah]

Originally posted by Starr
The only way any site on a Powweb server can be hacked is if you open up a security hole by using FrontPage improperly, and/or by using any of those PHPNuke style sites/forums. To elaborate, one of the freeware forum or content management system packages had a security hole. My understanding is that it was fixed some time ago. I can't recall which package it was, but someone else had a similar problem to yours and was able to fix it by updating their software. I would suggest that if you are using one of these packages, then you should check the change log to see if it's a known problem.