If you close the forums, that will prevent access by everyone except admins. I think that will prevent anyone else from doing anything that modifies the database, but I'm not 100% sure.
If you temporarily renamed config.inc.php to something else, that would guarantee that the threads script doesn't access the database, since the script wouldn't know the database name and other access info, but then users would get error messages when trying access the forums.
Last edited by Dave_L; 11/29/2002 11:38 AM.
