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We are set up so that only Admins or Moderators can access our Volunteer's Lounge forum. Today while watchin Who's Online I noticed a "Guest' who was viewing "Private Topic" in our Volunteer's Lounge. How is this possible? How do I stop it? Thanks!

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They're not actually viewing the topic. If they click on the forum, WOL shows them as being in the forum. I think that this was fixed in a later WOL version. Not sure on that one, though...

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Thanks so much! Good to know! smile

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Actually,

If you're using Who's Online 4.1 or higher on UBB 6.1+, that IS a security breach (the problem was fixed in WOL 4.1 Matt). You'll defintely need to see if you have hacked WOL correclty if this is the case.

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did you check the ip as a registered member?

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how is it someone could get past login?
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the only time i've ever seen a guest is when a regged member dropped their cookies while logged in...

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I'm using 4.0.0 on UBB 6.05 - does this mean that I could have this problem?

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Sal, yes you would have that kind of problem.

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Yikes! Are there only specific files that I would need to upload to alleviate this problem? - to upgrade? If there's an easy way to upgrade, please let me know!

Thank you...

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Also. How far do they get? Just the one message they click on or access to the whole forum?

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They don't actually get in... their cookie gets a hit when they click on the link and WOL shows them as "in", they aren't actually able to read anything. Qasic fixed this in more recent versions.


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Thanks. I feel much better knowing people aren't reading things in that forum. smile


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