Forum Attachments turned off temporarily Forums

nukeadmin · Site Admin

Due to the increased risks imposed by the new .WMF worm and Exploit I have temporarily switched off the forum attachments mod to mitigate the risk a little of a malicious person uploading an exploited file.

This wont be for too long hopefully, apologies for the inconvenience, just keeping MHF a safer place to surf Wink

Pusser

Good thinking Nukes and I think we can all live with that until panic is over

TheOggies

Dave, have you turned off the picture uploading to the gallery too?

Raine has posted he is having problems uploading.

badger

Whats a WMF worm?? Do I need protection from it????
and are they any good for fishing with???

nukeadmin · Site Admin

nope havent touched the gallery as that doesnt support .wmf format at all Smile

DABurleigh

"Raine has posted he is having problems uploading."

I know it was a typo, but Raine might not believe it. If not a typo a very brave post ..... Smile

Dave

Pusser

TheOggies

Cheers Dave, was just a thought (clutching at straws). Just uploaded a picture to my album successfully anyway

Snelly · Eastern Rally Co-ordinator

Nuke

Can you not set permissions so that only certain files can be attached to threads (such as gif, jpg and bmp)??

spykal · Moderator

Hi Snelly

The problem with WMF files is that they can be renamed to have one of the extensions that you mention. If one of these, including malicious code was uploaded to the site it could possible cause problems........I do not think for one moment that would happen but there are strange folks out there on the web.
Maybe the upload facility to the picture gallery should be closed too until Microsloth gets its act together and releases a