Posted 18 Dec 2015 Hello, has anyone noticed that plenty (not all) forum posts are changed to quotes from TWControls? What is happening here? Hopefully only a momentary breakdown 1 person likes this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 18 Dec 2015 (edited) Edited 18 Dec 2015 by RussB 2 people like this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 18 Dec 2015 I mean this kind of post... I wonder what is this... Some original posts doesn't require any moderation at all, but why these show up? Haven't check other areas, but in Omron section there are plenty of these lingering around Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 19 Dec 2015 No doubt. Something is wrong. I'll report it. 1 person likes this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 19 Dec 2015 Thank yo :D I found out that these happened on Mitsubishi section as well : Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 20 Dec 2015 It's all over the site. Not sure what the upgrade did to break all the quotes, but this appears to be everywhere something was quoted. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 20 Dec 2015 Actually it also occurred on posts which does not contain quotes as well... I checked on threads that I started which I know have no quotes inside the first post. And since no one have replied on that, I don't think quotes are the cause. Wonder when this thread itself will experience same thing. LOLz 2 people like this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 20 Dec 2015 I hope they have a backup copy somewhere. There is a lot of useful information that has disappeared!! 1 person likes this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 21 Dec 2015 Sure thing... hopefully they have the history stored... 1 person likes this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 21 Dec 2015 Hey Everybody, We are aware of the issue and working to get this sorted out. This is was a upgrade bug that was never anticipated. We are in contact with the forum software developers to see what our options are. thanks for your patience and understanding. -PDFsupply Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 22 Dec 2015 Updates, Were still working on the issue but have made great progress. Thanks everyone for your patience! Happy Holidays! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 22 Dec 2015 Just now, ctew said: Updates, Were still working on the issue but have made great progress. Thanks everyone for your patience! Happy Holidays! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 22 Dec 2015 Things should be going back to normal now. We've had a combination of issues all at once. The upgrades to the latest forums software caused some display issues to begin with among other smaller things. We have hopefully caught all of them and patch them up. In addition to the upgrades, either the new upgrade or the old code, had a virus in the code base and allowed the database to be corrupted. The posts database to be exact. This caused a lot of the spam / duplicated posts/quotes in the all the threads you we're seeing. We have installed a new security malware service to scan the server multiple times a day to help protect the site further . We also have patched up the database and restored 99.99999999999% of the post that were affected. There may still be some post from the last few days that may still be affected by the spam content. Moving forward we are implementing a new backup system to give us better restore points around a detected issue or upgrade! We will also be implementing a stronger firewall setup to to protect the content and user data of MrPLC.com. As always, if you have any questions or concerns please contact us. You can always PM me using my username ctew. Thanks, PDFsupply.com / MrPLC.com 1 person likes this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 22 Dec 2015 Well done! Thanks, seems to be good and well again..also ESET appears not to be blocking the site any more. 3 people like this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 23 Dec 2015 Thanks ctew! So the cause was a virus eh... That's very unfortunate... Hopefully nothing similar will occur again, or at worst we will lost those remarkable PLC laws :D 2 people like this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 23 Dec 2015 Looks much better now. The only thing I noticed is it looks like users signatures are missing also. Great work! 1 person likes this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 30 Dec 2015 We'll look into the signature issue asap. Thanks for letting use now. 1 person likes this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 16 Jun 2016 If this has been covered sorry I couldn't find it in my search? Why have some of the pictures be deleted in several of the threads? 1 person likes this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 16 Jun 2016 Jeff, are you referring to new (2016) posts, or older posts? If the posts are older 2015 and back, the site was hit by a virus at the end of 2015 and the cleanup process unfortunately resulted in the lose of some images. If the missing pictures your are not seeing are in recent posts, please provide here a few examples/links to those post, so we can investigate further. Thanks, MRPLC Web Admin Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 16 Jun 2016 No they where all old post. Thanks 1 person likes this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites