[kwlug disc.] Compromised website?

[Richard Weait]

On 2/24/07, R. Brent Clements <rbclemen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Has anyone else noticed the comments posted by garbage users
> containing links to porn sites appearing on our forums?  I have
> deleted all but one of them.  I don't know what to do with the rest.
> Richard, or somebody who knows more about drupal needs to take a look.

No, not compromised, that I can see.  I just didn't have comments as
disabled as I thought I had them.  Sorry.  They are off, again.  This
time they're really off.  I hope.

For the record, I haven't checked any of the links that were provided
in that spam, but I can't imagine that it measures up to the quality
found in the links in my personal collection.  Just sayin' is all.

The web site will be in various staes of undress for the rest of the
weekend. I'll be upgrading to te latest Drupal.  We're going to lose
some stuff in the near term, then add it again as conditions permit.
My goals / timeline are:

Backups.
Disable all but core functionality
Upgrade.
See what survived.  (I expect blogs will survive, perhaps books, faq
and other static pages.)
Get Presentations and Meetings back up and running.
Then consider forums, etc.

Library will certainly break and be down for some time.  It was custom
made for us by one of our members and is not available in a D5
version.

There will be no immediate forum email integration; required modules
have not been updated for D5.  Perhaps some day.  The new mailman
stuff convered in another thread may help.

Cheers,
Richard.