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    Post by castrogstar October 22nd 2013, 4:04 am

    Forum: vghl.canadian-forum.com
    Issue: 200+ IPs have been erased

    We run a virtual hockey league with over 2000 members and have compiled a list of over 200 IPs from malicious users over the last 3 years. This list has been erased automatically and we need it back or else people will begin to sneak back in and cause issues for our league. I have checked the back end of our site with the action tracking tool and there is no record of this action being executed by any user with admin access. I am unable to roll the forum back to the last possible restore point because too much data will be lost for our current season.

    Please help me restore our list.
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    Post by SLGray October 22nd 2013, 4:05 am

    Was the forum been restored to an earlier date? Ā Are you the founder of the forum? If you are not the founder, could it be that the founder erased the list by using the utilities tool?



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    Post by castrogstar October 22nd 2013, 5:27 am

    I am the founder, no restore has been made and none of our admins have removed the IPs.
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    Post by Derri October 22nd 2013, 6:13 am

    Just to be sure you can check the security logs by going to ACP --> General --> Security --> Scroll down and you'll see them.
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    Post by castrogstar October 22nd 2013, 11:04 am

    It's been checked.
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    Post by Shadow October 22nd 2013, 11:35 am

    Hello,

    Please read the following tutorial to proceed backup https://help.forumotion.com/t9692-the-utilities-backup-and-restore

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    Post by castrogstar October 22nd 2013, 9:06 pm

    This doesn't really help because the only options areĀ 

    messages and userĀ 
    themeĀ 
    full

    I can not do any of these because it will wipe out all of my activity over the last 6 days. It also doesnt really even specify if security settings (such as the one that was affected) will be restored.
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    Post by SLGray October 23rd 2013, 2:46 am

    Could you post a screenshot of the security log for administrators?



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    Post by castrogstar October 23rd 2013, 3:00 am

    the security log is 294 pages long for administration and 533 pages for moderation. Which page would you like a screen shot of? As mentioned before, I've done a check of all of the logs during the time frame when the banned IPs were there and then deleted.
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    Post by SLGray October 23rd 2013, 3:03 am

    I have sent you a pm.



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    Post by castrogstar October 23rd 2013, 3:04 am

    Banning and unbanning players and IPs Ā appears in the moderation log. As mentioned before, they've been checked and double checked.
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    Post by SLGray October 23rd 2013, 3:06 am

    Moderators can only ban members. Ā They can not unban them, only administrators can.

    Edit: This has been reported to Buttercup. We will need to wait until she read the report and replies to this topic.



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