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Heads Up! – There seems to be a bunch of “hackers” and “spoofers” attacking Facebook right now! – FB is a big target, and several of my connects have been hit, so please be on alert!

The “stuff” that I have seen/hear is Inbox messages that say something along the lines of “Check out this site”, and when you roll over the link, it points to a web site in *.pl (Poland)… other sites that one should be aware of are *.ru (Russia) and *.cn (China)… I was also sent a site link for “Photo Comment/Review” which was out of the *.uk, … but when I chatted with that person live, they warned me! Make sure your Virus software is up-to-date, and your OS is patched! and when in doubt, google the site to see what others are saying…

I wish I could be of more help, but the bastards are very smart at hiding their intent! In general, always roll over a link, check where it is going BEFORE you click!

– Andrew

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Recently, August 6th, 2009, I Upgraded this site from DotNetNuke (DNN) 5.0.1 to 5.1.1, and for the most part, it went well, but there was one nagging issue that was driving me NUTS!

After the Upgrade, the Mode Bar was showing up for ALL Users, including Visitors!

The Mode Bar is only suppose to show up for folks with Administrator rights, so they can perform needed tasks, and with the ‘it’ showing, I thought that Visitors might be alarmed that something was wrong (which it was…).

Needless to say, I spent a great deal of time trying to track down and correct this issue, and posted to several different forums looking for help:

DotNetNuke.com – Help with mode bar issue

Snapsis.com – Hide Mode: View / Edit Control bar unless user has edit permission to tab

What was really weird was that all of my reads seemed to indicate that this was a DNN 4.x issue!

After about two weeks of trying everything that folks had suggested, I finally “Nuked” the whole website (8/19) and started from a Fresh, Clean install of DNN 5.1.

So that bring me to this post.

I am currently rebuilding the whole Site and Forums area from scratch, and have also done a little house-keeping and redesign.

Unfortunately, even though I backed up all the Forum posts, there is no way that I can recreate the original Posting dates and times.

The content has been preserved, but not the timestamps.

Sorry!

So for the next couple of days, I will be re-posting all the Original content (Oh joy, rapture and bliss!), so please bear with us as the information is being replaced.

I hope to have it all done in the next day or two…

In the mean time, all the Forums are up and running, so feel free to post!

Thanks again for stopping by!

– Andrew

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