also...this time it was not our forum database..it was the db that handles everything outside the forum. however on our forum homepage we show those magazine reviews which are served off the other db and also in forums we sometimes show the featured classified ads which serve from that db too. that caused some spillover when viewing the forums but we didn't lose any data nor was the forum database affected. the forum db was secured in our forum codebase when we had that round of hacks a couple months ago. our other db was never injected until yesterday. the injections just put in bogus data and links to virus. a PIA as it requires us to rollback the other db to last known state. 1st time we caught it within the hour so almost zero loss of data. this morning we caught it about 4 hours later but fortunately not much activity from 5am to 8am est on saturday

we have some code in place for some obvious exploits already pushed live. we'll be adding more through the day to raise the security walls.

also we will be upgrading our forums in the next couple weeks. we already have performed the dry run of the upgrade and are completing some modifications of the code. the new forum will have some very cool features, fewer page refreshes in many areas, easier management of subscriptions, wysiwyg editor and lots more.