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On a daily basis I see attempts to hack into the forum,many of these are from countries that once spotted are easy to block and stop them without the worry of blocking a genuine member,more recently there has been a surge of attempts from severs in the USA plus some parts of Europe,and this can be harder to make the decision to block future access,as a forum member may be on their travels.
My main concern is if the forum does get hacked it will cause untold damage,I have invested more of my money on a auto daily back up of the forum,but this could still take time to restore and no doubt later postings will be lost.
So what I need all members to do is to make sure they have my real email contact address, if you do not have it send me a private message and I will reply with the email address,also you could ask other members for their email address,this way if for some reason you do get blocked,by this I mean you will not be able to see the website or forum,you can contact me or someone else to contact me,stating you are blocked,you will need to explain what has happened and what your ip address is along with your user name,if you use this website http://www.whatismyip.com/ it will tell you your ip address at the top of the page,some ip address do change each time you log on,but it will be within a set range,so it would be a good idea to check yours and make a note of it, if you change internet providers your ip address will change.
Thanks for your help with this matter,better safe than sorry
My main concern is if the forum does get hacked it will cause untold damage,I have invested more of my money on a auto daily back up of the forum,but this could still take time to restore and no doubt later postings will be lost.
So what I need all members to do is to make sure they have my real email contact address, if you do not have it send me a private message and I will reply with the email address,also you could ask other members for their email address,this way if for some reason you do get blocked,by this I mean you will not be able to see the website or forum,you can contact me or someone else to contact me,stating you are blocked,you will need to explain what has happened and what your ip address is along with your user name,if you use this website http://www.whatismyip.com/ it will tell you your ip address at the top of the page,some ip address do change each time you log on,but it will be within a set range,so it would be a good idea to check yours and make a note of it, if you change internet providers your ip address will change.
Thanks for your help with this matter,better safe than sorry