something wrong with PMs?

[ThePenguin]

No, I'll likely be turning them off again shortly. As PMs are written (and apparently avatars and other attachments), they are done so in a temporary directory on the server. This directory is being exploited and hackers are installing and running IRC software from the site. I have not been able to determine how they are doing this yet so have been shutting off permissions to the directory in the interim. I cleared out all of their files but when they come back, I'll have to turn it off again. I am very aware of this problem-- everytime someone gets an error message, I get an email message. Yesterday, we got perhaps a thousand of them. There is no reason for people to keep hitting reload. If you get the error message once, you'll get it continuously for that session. Some people are just continually hitting reload which is, in turn, flooding up my inbox!

- Marty