We're fighting back as best as we can. Apologies to people for the emails that you may have received. Unfortunately there's only so much we can do to protect against...

I have now banned several users with very similar names, and have also banned the IP address that that was originating from.

Mel

I have banned the user. Steve will investigate further once he's awake.

Mel

Note, I work for Red Gate (obviously), so this is a slight plug. We do actually use our own tools for exactly this sort of thing though, so I'm not...

Yes, we're aware that we seem to be being hit with these a bit, and are looking into it at the moment!

As with anything, don't trust files from the internet,...

I think the root cause of a lot of these problems is the load on the servers, which they're not handling very well at times. As we've said, we're in...

Dugi (9/18/2009)

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Ok have problem during the new threads or reply, working on FireFox to many times have problem so sometimes I should wait for a long time or wining error...

Right, after some battling with linked servers again, we're up and running correctly. For anyone that's interested, the issue we had was as follows:

There's an SP in the Forums DB...

Please see this post for an explanation:

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/SQLServerCentral/68122/[/url]

Mel

Yeah, that wasn't maintenance this morning. They just went down all by themselves. Don't quite know why yet - it's one of the mysteries of IIS!

The syncing from main site...

Some of the changes fall into the 'should have no effect' (how many times have you heard that before!).

Mel

Well, as I said, we're aiming to get some fixes out later this week, so hopefully we will be able to include this in that.

Mel

Currently the syncing isn't working at all (although I can do it manually from time to time). We know what the problem is and should be able to get it...

s/databases/computers/

Mel

Ok, hopefully that should be sorted now. What do you mean about the time stamp - I...