people who run phpbb - beware of FuntKlakow

[bob4432]

i just got an email from my hosting company regarding FuntKlakow and phpbb. i don't run phpbb forum but wanted to pass the info on to anybody who does, just an fyi.

 

[43st]

What's the warning? Is it just a bot account in phpbb? Or is it something worse?

 

[mb]

http://www.issociate.de/board/post/3128...ow-bot)?-_general_countermeasures.html

 

[imported_LoKe]

There was a digg story about it. Just delete the user in question.

 

[Soccer55]

Originally posted by: LoKe
There was a digg story about it. Just delete the user in question.

So another good countermeasure would be to put "FuntKlakow" as a banned username yea?

-Tom

 

[bob4432]

Originally posted by: Thera
What's the warning? Is it just a bot account in phpbb? Or is it something worse?

not really sure, but my hosting company will not even allow phpbb anymore so there maybe more to it than just a posting bot, sorry i don't have any more info about, again, just wanted to pass the info on

 

[Mitzi]

Cheers for the heads up...I indeed did have the FuntKlakow registered, possibly because I hadn't upgraded to the latest 2.2.19 release so my board was unprotected. Deleted and banned the user and removed the 2 posts the bot had made.